Sao Paulo, October 02, 2019 -- Moody's America Latina Ltda. ("Moody's")
has today affirmed all ratings of BNDES Participacoes S.A.
(BNDESPAR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Banco Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Economico e Social -- BNDES. Moody's
affirmed BNDESPAR's Ba2 long-term local currency issuer rating
and the Aa1.br long-term Brazilian National Scale deposit
rating (NSR). All ratings have a stable outlook.
A full list of the affected ratings and assessments is provided at the
end of this press release.
RATINGS RATIONALE
The affirmation of BNDESPAR's ratings reflects the affirmation of
the Ba2 ratings of its parent company, BNDES, which is its
sole shareholder. For a detailed consideration of Moody's
action on BNDES' ratings, please refer to the press release
dated 02 October 2019 "Moody's affirms BNDES' ratings;
outlook stable".
BNDESPAR's main role is to support the Brazilian capital markets
through minority and temporary equity investments in the corporate sector,
as well as investments in fixed income instruments. The agency's
investment portfolio has sizable equity and securities holdings from domestic
corporations, both government owned and privately held. BNDESPAR
continues to gradually divest some of its holdings as market conditions
allow, reallocating its assets according to BNDES' investment strategy.
As of 1Q2019, BNDESPAR registered a net income of BRL 8.6
billion compared to BRL 570 m one year earlier, which resulted from
extraordinary gains with the sale of equity holdings.
WHAT COULD CHANGE THE RATING -- DOWN/UP
BNDESPAR is a 100%-owned subsidiary of BNDES, and,
as such its ratings are intertwined with the bank's ratings. Positive
or negative movement on BNDESPAR's ratings would trigger changes to the
development bank's ratings.
METHODOLOGY USED
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Banks published in
August 2018. Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com.br
for a copy of this methodology.
BNDESPAR is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and reported
BRL 119.6 billion (USD 31 billion) in assets and BRL 104 billion
(USD 27 billion) in shareholders' equity as of 31 March 2019.
LIST OF AFFECTED RATINGS AND ASSESSMENTS
The following ratings and assessments of BNDESPAR were affirmed:
- Long-term local issuer rating of Ba2, stable outlook
- Long-term Brazilian national scale deposit rating (NSR)
of Aa1.br
..Outlook Actions:
....Outlook, Stable
Moody's National Scale Credit 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 credit 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 ".za"
for South Africa. For further information on Moody's approach to
national scale credit ratings, please refer to Moody's Credit rating
Methodology published in May 2016 entitled "Mapping National Scale Ratings
from Global Scale Ratings". While NSRs have no inherent absolute
meaning in terms of default risk or expected loss, a historical
probability of default consistent with a given NSR can be inferred from
the GSR to which it maps back at that particular point in time.
For information on the historical default rates associated with different
global scale rating categories over different investment horizons,
please see http://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1174796.
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parties involved in the ratings, public information, and confidential
and proprietary Moody's information.
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financial data, legislation, by-laws and legal documents,
public information, Moody's information, and regulatory
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in the link http://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBC_1188605.
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The date of the last Credit Rating Action was 10/4/2018.
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