OREANDA-NEWS. Expert RA Rating Agency (RAEX) confirmed ROST BANK credit rating A+ (“Very high level of creditworthiness"), the third sub-level, and changed the outlook to “negative", which means the likelihood of mid term rating downgrade is high.

Main factors, positively influencing the bank rating score level are quite low level of active transactions concentration on major credit risk objects and acceptable loan portfolio quality.

Besides, high share of unsecured loans and insufficiently conservative loans provisioning policy are highlighted by the Agency analysts among factors negatively influencing the rating score.

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