FRANKFURT (Standard&Poor's) Feb. 27, 2009--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today it lowered its ratings on Dresdner Bank AG's €1 billion hybrid Tier 1 capital instruments issued through HT1 Funding GmbH and on the bank's €750 million upper Tier 2 capital instruments issued through UT2 Funding PLC to 'CC' from 'BB+'. At the same time, we lowered the ratings on Dresdner Bank's hybrid Tier 1 capital instruments issued through Dresdner Funding Trust I, II, III, and IV, and on various other junior subordinated Tier 1 instruments related to Commerzbank AG (A/Stable/A-1) and its subsidiary Eurohypo AG (A/Negative/A-1) to 'BB' from 'BB+'. All these issue ratings remain on CreditWatch, where they were placed with negative implications on Jan. 12,