OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 September 2008 was announced, that August saw 19 ratings assigned by Credit-Rating, 1 rating has been upgraded, 2 rating have been downgraded, 7 rating outlook has been revised, 5 ratings have been suspended, 2 ratings have been withdrawn and 1 rating has been placed to Rating Watch List.

ISSUER RATINGS

Financial sector

August 29 Home Credit Bank CJSC (city of Dnepropetrovsk): a long-term credit rating of uaA has been assigned to the bank.

ISSUE RATINGS

Corporate sector

August 4 SK Nove Misto LLC (city of Lviv): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB- has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A-C) for the amount of UAH51.1m, with 2-year original maturity.

August 6 SP Agrodom LLC (city of Kiev): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB+ has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered coupon bonds (series A) for the amount of UAH6m, with 3 1/2-year original maturity.

August 8 Ukrrosmetal CJSC (city of Sumy): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaBB+ (provisional) to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A-J) for the amount of UAH38.2m due on Dec. 19, 2010.

August 11 EV LLC (city of Lviv): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB+ has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A, B) for the amount of UAH50.4m, with 1-year original maturity.

August 12 VS-Investstroy LLC (city of Zaporizhzhia): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB- has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A-E) for the amount of UAH102.7m, with 3-year original maturity.

August 14 PROVIANT LLC (city of Chernihiv): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB+ has been assigned to issue of registered coupon bonds (series A) for the amount of UAH25m, with 5-year original maturity.

August 15 Architectural and Construction Centre Renessans (city of Cherkasy): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB- has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series B-E) for the amount of UAH30.1m, with 3-year original maturity.

August 18 KETAM LLC (city of Kiev): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series K-P) for the amount of UAH16.4m, with 2-year original maturity.

August 20 Stroyresurs-Ekonomiya LLC (city of Kiev): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaB has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series B) for the amount of UAH5.4m, with 2-year original maturity.

August 22 Dialog LLC (city of Dnepropetrovsk): a longterm speculative grade rating of uaB has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A-D) for the amount of UAH85.6m, with 3-year original maturity.

August 26 Intertekhnika LLC (city of Kiev): a long-term speculative grade rating of uaBB has been assigned to upcoming issue of registered housing bonds (series A) for the amount of UAH44.4m, with 3-year original maturity.

Credit-Rating agency has operated in the Ukrainian market since 2001 being committed to assignment of the national scale ratings. The agency has assigned 914 ratings, specifically to 702 Ukrainian companies, 155 financial institutions and 52 municipalities and their debt instruments and 1 corporate governance rating.

As of Sep. 1, 2008 Credit-Rating maintains monitoring of 770 ratings, in fact 582 of corporate, 142 of financial and 46 of municipal sectors.