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Article: MOODY'S DOWNGRADES RATINGS OF SIX BALTIC BANKS
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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Moody's Investors Service today downgraded the ratings of six
Baltic banks. The affected entities are Baltic International Bank
(Latvia), BIGBANK (Estonia), Norvik Banka (Latvia), Siauliu Bankas
(Lithuania) and Trasta Komercbanka (Latvia), with the BFSR of
Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia (MLBL) also being downgraded, while
its long-term foreign currency deposit rating was confirmed. Today's
downgrades conclude the review process for the six banks that was
initiated on 8 June 2009, although Moody's notes that the long-term
debt and deposit ratings of Parex Bank and Swedbank AS remain on
review for possible downgrade. These reviews were initiated on 11
May 2009 and 27 April, respectively, ...