News Source: International Business Times
| 2 months ago
Rating Watch Negative essentially reflects heightened concerns and uncertainty surrounding efforts to execute a sale of the company that would preserve its investment-grade capital structure," Fitch said in a statement...Approximately $19 billion of...
News Source: NewKerala
| 2 months ago
The other three banks had their 1 support ratings affirmed. ''Fitch's revised view of the UAE sovereign reflects the increasing demands on its relatively small fiscal resources during the current period of economic stress,'' it said...Mashreq's long-...
News Source: Zawya Regional
| 2 months ago
Fitch Ratings downgraded a raft of banks in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday due to the lower likelihood of state support for some of the smaller or privately owned financial institutions. The credit ratings agency also downgraded two important...
News Source: Khaleej Times
| 2 months ago
Fitch Ratings said the downgrades took into account the uncertainty “as to how any government support may be provided.” “An intensification of financing pressures on the corporate sector and state-owned companies in particular, if not...
News Source: 7days
| 2 months ago
A+’ to ‘A-’ on “Fitch’s view that the credit profiles of the [Dubai and UAE governments] have weakened and lower certainty as to how any government support may be provided”. “The Emirate of Dubai’s creditworthiness is weakening as...
News Source: The Daily Star
| 2 months ago
The United Arab Emirates’ ability to support its banking sector has lessened during the global financial crisis, said Fitch Ratings, which downgraded seven local financial institutions on Thursday. Hit by a gloomy property downturn and the...