Hilltop Holdings and PlainsCapital Bank Awarded Investment Grade Ratings from Kroll Bond Rating Agency

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTH), a Dallas-based financial holding company, today announced that the company and its subsidiary PlainsCapital Bank (the “Bank”) received investment grade ratings with a stable outlook from Kroll Bond Rating Agency (“KBRA”). KBRA assigned Hilltop a senior unsecured debt rating of A-, making it the highest-rated bank holding company with over $5 billion in assets in the agency’s universe of rated Texas-based banks to date. Hilltop also was