Sao Paulo, January 29, 2014 -- Moody's América Latina has affirmed Banco PSA Finance Brasil S.A.'s
(Banco PSA) long-term local-currency senior unsecured debt
rating of Ba2, assigned to its issuance of "Letras Financeiras".
At the same time, Moody's has also affirmed the long-term
Brazilian national scale senior unsecured debt rating of Aa3.br.
The outlook on the debt rating was changed to negative from stable in
line with the negative outlook on Banco PSA's global and national scale
deposit ratings.
The following ratings were affirmed:
- Long-term Global Local-Currency Senior Unsecured
Debt Rating: Ba2, with negative outlook
- Long-term Brazilian National Scale Senior Unsecured Debt
Rating: Aa3.br, with negative outlook
RATINGS RATIONALE
Moody's explained that the local-currency senior unsecured debt
rating derives from Banco PSA's Ba2 global local-currency deposit
rating, which in turn incorporates the bank's standalone credit
rating of D- (equivalent to ba3 in the global rating scale),
as well as Moody's assessment of a high probability of support that would
be forthcoming from its French owner, Banque PSA Finance.
The seniority is taken into consideration in the assignment of debt ratings.
For a detailed consideration of Moody's action on Banco PSA's ratings,
please refer to the press release dated 29 January 2014 "Moody's affirms
Banco PSA Finance Brasil's ratings; negative outlook on supported
ratings".
The last rating action on Banco PSA's senior unsecured debt was
on 18 April 2013, when Moody's downgraded Banco PSA's local-currency
senior unsecured debt rating to Ba2, from Ba1, and the national
scale senior unsecured debt rating to Aa3.br, from Aa2.br.
The ratings on these notes had stable outlook.
The principal methodology used in this rating was Global Banks published
in May 2013. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com.br
for a copy of this methodology.
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 ".mx" for Mexico.
For further information on Moody's approach to national scale ratings,
please refer to Moody's Rating Methodology published in October 2012 entitled
"Mapping Moody's National Scale Ratings to Global Scale Ratings".
Banco PSA Finance Brasil S.A. is headquartered in São
Paulo, Brazil, and had total assets of BRL3.32 billion
($1.5 billion) and total equity of BRL370 million ($167.5
million) as of 30 June 2013.
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Moody's affirms local currency debt rating of Banco PSA Finance Brasil; negative outlook