Frankfurt am Main, July 05, 2012 -- Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded the ratings of 31 tranches
in four Turkish future receivables transactions (including one Credit
Card Voucher (CCV) and three Diversified Payment Rights (DPR) transactions).
At the same time, Moody's has upgraded eight tranches in one transaction
and confirmed the ratings of 18 tranches in three transactions.
In addition, Moody's has taken action on the underlying ratings
of 30 tranches wrapped by financial guarantors in seven transactions.
The ratings of nine tranches remain on review for downgrade.
Please click on this link http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PBS_SF290553
for the complete list of affected ratings and underlying ratings.
This list is an integral part of this press release and identifies each
affected issuer.
For additional information on Structured Finance ratings, please
refer to the webpage containing Moody's related announcements http://www.moodys.com/eusovereign.
RATINGS RATIONALE
Today's rating action follows Moody's rating actions on 3 July 2012 on
the local-currency deposit ratings of several Turkish banks,
including Akbank TAS, Denizbank A.S., Turkiye
Garanti Bankasi AS, Turkiye Is Bankasi AS, Turkiye Vakiflar
Bankasi TAO and Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi AS, which are the originators
of the eight Turkish future receivables transactions affected by today's
action.
The rating action on the local-currency deposit ratings of Turkish
banks primarily reflects the combination of Moody's revised assessment
of the linkage between the credit profiles of sovereigns and financial
institutions globally and improved Turkish sovereign's creditworthiness.
For more details on the rating action of the banks, please refer
to the press release issued on 3 July 2012 "Moody's takes
rating actions on Turkish banks, following sovereign upgrade"
(http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-takes-rating-actions-on-Turkish-banks-following-sovereign-upgrade--PR_249326).
Under Moody's rating methodology, and in the absence of any transaction-specific
concerns, the rating assigned to a future receivables transaction
is linked to the local-currency deposit rating of the originator.
The tranches benefiting from a financial guarantee provided by Assured
Guaranty Corp, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp or Assured Guaranty
(Europe) Ltd. (Aa3, on review for downgrade) remain on review
for downgrade, pending the results of the review on the guarantors'
ratings.
No key assumptions, factors and sensitivity analysis have been conducted
as the ratings of the notes are directly linked to the local-currency
deposit rating of the originator.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
Please click on this link http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PBS_SF290553
for the List of Affected Credit Ratings. This list is an integral
part of this Press Release and provides, for each of the credit
ratings covered, Moody's disclosures on the following item:
- Methodologies and Models used
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation
to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series
or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings
are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's
rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider,
this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation
to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular
rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the
support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings,
this announcement provides relevant regulatory disclosures in relation
to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive
rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt,
in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed
prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would
have affected the rating. For further information please see the
ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
The ratings have been disclosed to the rated entities or their designated
agent(s) and issuedwith no amendment resulting from that disclosure.
Information sources used to prepare the ratings are the following:
parties involved in the ratings, public information, and confidential
and proprietary Moody's Investors Service information.
Moody's considers the quality of information available on the rated
entities, obligations or credits satisfactory for the purposes of
issuing these ratings.
Moody's adopts all necessary measures so that the information it
uses in assigning the ratings is of sufficient quality and from sources
Moody's considers to be reliable including, when appropriate,
independent third-party sources. However, Moody's
is not an auditor and cannot in every instance independently verify or
validate information received in the rating process.
Moody's Investors Service may have provided Ancillary or Other Permissible
Service(s) to the rated entities or their related third parties within
the two years preceding the credit rating action. Please see the
special report "Ancillary or other permissible services provided
to entities rated by MIS's EU credit rating agencies" on the
ratings disclosure page on our website www.moodys.com for
further information.
The below contact information is provided for information purposes only.
Please see the issuer page on www.moodys.com for Moody's
regulatory disclosure of the name of the lead analyst and the office that
has issued the credit rating.
Please see the ratings disclosure page on www.moodys.com
for general disclosure on potential conflicts of interests.
Please see the ratings disclosure page on www.moodys.com
for information on (A) MCO's major shareholders (above 5%) and
for (B) further information regarding certain affiliations that may exist
between directors of MCO and rated entities as well as (C) the names of
entities that hold ratings from MIS that have also publicly reported to
the SEC an ownership interest in MCO of more than 5%. A
member of the board of directors of this rated entity may also be a member
of the board of directors of a shareholder of Moody's Corporation;
however, Moody's has not independently verified this matter.
Please see Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions on the Rating Process
page on www.moodys.com for further information on the meaning
of each rating category and the definition of default and recovery.
Please see ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com
for the last rating action and the rating history.
The date on which some ratings were first released goes back to a time
before Moody's ratings were fully digitized and accurate data may not
be available. Consequently, Moody's provides a date that
it believes is the most reliable and accurate based on the information
that is available to it. Please see the ratings disclosure page
on our website www.moodys.com for further information.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to
the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the rating.
Yuezhen Wang
Associate Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Deutschland GmbH
An der Welle 5
Frankfurt am Main 60322
Germany
JOURNALISTS: 44 20 7772 5456
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Carole Gintz
VP - Senior Credit Officer
Structured Finance Group
JOURNALISTS: 44 20 7772 5456
SUBSCRIBERS: 44 20 7772 5454
Releasing Office:
Moody's Deutschland GmbH
An der Welle 5
Frankfurt am Main 60322
Germany
JOURNALISTS: 44 20 7772 5456
SUBSCRIBERS: 44 20 7772 5454
Moody's takes actions on Turkish future receivables transactions