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HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO) (the Company) announced today that Mr. Robin Monro-Davies has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors; he replaces Mr. Walter Scott, who is retiring. Mr. Simon W. Leathes has been elected an independent director.

Mr. Monro-Davies has been an Assured Guaranty Ltd. director since 2005. From 1997 until his retirement in 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of Fitch Ratings. He is also an independent director of the Company's U.K. insurance subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty (Europe) Ltd. and Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd.

Mr. Leathes became an independent, non-executive director of Assured Guaranty (Europe) Ltd. and Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd. in January 2012. He served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Barclays Capital from January 2001 until his retirement in December 2006.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. is a publicly traded Bermuda-based holding company. Its operating subsidiaries provide credit enhancement products to the U.S. and international public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets.assuredguaranty.com.

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