TORONTO (Standard&Poor's) May 26, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today said it assigned its 'BBB+' global scale and 'P-2(High)' Canada scale ratings to The Toronto-Dominion Bank's (TD Bank) Tier 1 noncumulative five-year rate reset preferred shares, series 1. "In accordance with our criteria for hybrid capital instruments, the ratings reflect our analysis of the proposed instrument, and our assessment of TD Bank's stand-alone credit profile of 'a+'," said Standard&Poor's credit analyst Lidia Parfeniuk. (For more information, see "Bank Hybrid Capital Methodology And Assumptions," published Nov. 1, 2011, on RatingsDirect). The 'BBB+' rating stands three notches below the stand-alone credit profile (SACP), incorporating: A deduction of two notches, the minimum downward notching from the SACP under our