New York, March 19, 2012 -- The following release represents Moody's Investors Service's summary
credit opinion on Banco Nac. Desenv. Economico e Social
-- BNDES and includes certain regulatory disclosures regarding its
ratings. This release does not constitute any change in Moody's
ratings or rating rationale for Banco Nac. Desenv. Economico
e Social -- BNDES and its affiliates.
Moody's current ratings on Banco Nac. Desenv. Economico
e Social -- BNDES and its affiliates are:
Long Term Issuer (domestic currency) rating of A3
Senior Unsecured (foreign currency) ratings of Baa1
Long Term Bank Deposits (foreign currency) ratings of Baa2
Short Term Bank Deposits (foreign currency) ratings of P-2
Short Term Issuer Rating (domestic currency) ratings of P-2
NSR Long Term Bank Deposits (domestic currency) ratings of Aaa.br
NSR Short Term Bank Deposits (domestic currency) ratings of BR-1
BNDES Participacoes S.A. -- BNDESPAR
Long Term Issuer (domestic currency) rating of A3
Senior Unsecured (domestic currency) ratings of A3
Senior Unsecured MTN Program (domestic currency) ratings of (P)A3
NSR Senior Unsecured (domestic currency) ratings of Aaa.br
NSR Senior Unsecured MTN Program (domestic currency) ratings of Aaa.br
NSR Long Term Issuer Rating (domestic currency) ratings of Aaa.br
RATINGS RATIONALE
Moody's assigns Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social -
BNDES global local currency issuer ratings of A3 and Prime-2.
The ratings reflect BNDES's franchise value, which is derived from
its position as a major source of long-term debt and equity financing
in Brazil, its expertise in project financing, along with
its active role in the country's infrastructure, export, and
privatization programs.
BNDES's issuer rating incorporate a systemic support indicator for Brazilian
banks of A3, which is two notches above the Brazilian government's
local currency bond rating of Baa2. The two-notch difference
reflects Moody's assessment of the Brazilian government's ability and
willingness to support the banking system, which, in turn,
also proved to be intrinsically strong during the recent global crisis.
According to Moody's methodology for rating government-related
issuers (GRIs), in addition to the A3 support indicator, BNDES's
rating also derives from the following inputs: 1) the bank's baseline
credit assessment (BCA) of Baa2, and 2) the assessment of the probability
of high dependence and high support that exists between BNDES and its
shareholder, the Brazilian government.
The high level of support reflects the bank's strategic importance to
the federal government, and its access to stable and reasonably
inexpensive, constitutionally mandated funding, as well as
to official and multilateral financing. As a federal entity,
BNDES is not subject to bankruptcy proceedings, and while the government
does not guarantee its obligations, Brazilian law allows creditors
to seek payment from the federal government, after obtaining any
final judgment against the bank.
The assessment of the high probability of support is based on the 100%
ownership of BNDES by the Brazilian government through the National Treasury.
Such support measures Brazil's ability to rescue a non-bank financial
institution under Moody's joint default analysis (JDA) framework.
Rating Outlook
The outlook on BNDES's issuer ratings and national scale ratings is stable.
The foreign currency bond and deposit ratings have positive outlook,
which is in line with that of Brazilian country ceilings.
What Could Change the Rating - Up
Upward rating movement in the foreign currency bond and deposit ratings
of BNDES are dependent on Brazil's country ceilings, and an upgrade
on those ratings may lift the bank's ratings as well. Change in
the bank's baseline credit assessment could result from improvement of
the Brazilian sovereign rating.
What Could Change the Rating - Down
Deterioration in the quality of the bank's loan portfolio triggered by
either a deterioration of macroeconomic conditions or by poor asset allocation
as the bank fulfills government policies, could result in increase
in its provisions and thus, decline in profitability. Changes
in profitability targets or the decline in quality of the bank's capital
may also weaken the bank's financial flexibility over time, with
negative effects on the ratings.
The methodologies used in these ratings were Bank Financial Strength Ratings:
Global Methodology published in February 2007, Incorporation of
Joint-Default Analysis into Moody's Bank Ratings: A Refined
Methodology published in March 2007, and Mapping Moody's National
Scale Ratings to Global Scale Ratings published in March 2011.
Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com for
a copy of these methodologies.
Moody's National Scale Ratings (NSRs) are intended as relative measures
of creditworthiness among debt issues and issuers within a country,
enabling market participants to better differentiate relative risks.
NSRs differ from Moody's global scale ratings in that they are not globally
comparable with the full universe of Moody's rated entities, but
only with NSRs for other rated debt issues and issuers within the same
country. NSRs are designated by a ".nn" country
modifier signifying the relevant country, as in ".br"
for Brazil. For further information on Moody's approach to national
scale ratings, please refer to Moody's Rating Implementation Guidance
published in March 2011 entitled "Mapping Moody's National Scale
Ratings to Global Scale Ratings."
The Local Market analyst for these ratings is Alexandre Albuquerque,
55-11-3043-7356 .
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
Although these credit ratings have been issued in a non-EU country
which has not been recognized as endorsable at this date, the credit
ratings are deemed "EU qualified by extension" and may still
be used by financial institutions for regulatory purposes until 30 April
2012. Further information on the EU endorsement status and on the
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