Mexico, August 19, 2013 -- Moody's de Mexico assigned a Baa1 long term global local currency senior
debt rating to Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos,
S.N.C. Institución de Banca de Desarrollo's
(Banobras) issuance of Certificados Bursátiles Bancarios.
At the same time, Moody's de México assigned a long term
Mexican National Scale senior debt rating of Aaa.mx to these notes.
The outlook on these ratings is stable.
The thirteenth issuance of Certificados Bursátiles Bancarios (BANOB
13-3) will be for an amount of up to Mx$10 billion,
placed at fixed rate with a maturity of 3.5 years.
The following senior debt ratings were assigned to Banobras' thirteenth
issuance of Certificados Bursátiles Bancarios (BANOB 13-3):
- Long term global local currency senior debt rating of Baa1
- Long term Mexican National Scale senior debt rating of Aaa.mx
- The outlook is stable
RATINGS RATIONALE
The debt ratings of Banobras are based on the bank's status as a government-related
issuer (GRI), in accordance with Moody's rating methodology for
GRIs and the explicit support of the Mexican government through a guarantee
covering all obligations contracted by the bank with third parties.
According to Banobras's Organic Law, the Mexican government responds
fully and unconditionally for all obligations contracted by the bank.
Banobras' Baa1 issuer rating has a stable outlook, which is consistent
with that of Mexico's Baa1 government bond rating.
Banobras' Baa1 issuer rating takes into account a standalone credit assessment
of ba2 which reflects the bank's modest franchise value given its limited-scope
business profile as a result of its public policy role to support solely
infrastructure projects. The bank's standalone strength is also
limited by its relatively modest profitability overall. However,
the standalone credit assessment of Banobras also considers the bank's
overall low credit risk profile, which is derived from its important
exposure to Mexican government risk in the form of loans that are ultimately
guaranteed by the Mexican government, as well as sizable holdings
of government securities.
The four notches of uplift from the bank's ba2 standalone credit assessment
to the supported Baa1 issuer rating are based on the government's full
guarantee.
Banobras is an instrument of government policy tasked with the primary
role of providing financing to states and municipalities, particularly
for the support of infrastructure projects.
The principal methodology used in this rating was Government-Related
Issuers: Methodology Update published in July 2010. Please
see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com.mx 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".
The long term Mexican National Scale rating of Aaa.mx indicates
issuers or issues with the strongest creditworthiness relative to other
domestic issuers.
The date of the last Credit Rating Action was 17 April 2013, when
Moody's assigned Aaa.mx to Banobras's twelfth issuance of Certificados
Bursátiles Bancarios.
Banobras is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico, and had
Mx$430.3 billion in assets, as of June 2013 (source:
Issuer's quarterly unaudited financial statements).
The period of time covered in the financial information used to determine
the rating is between 31 December 2006 and 30 June 2013 (source:
Moody's and issuer's annual audited and quarterly unaudited financial
statements).
The sources and items of information used to determine the rating include
2013 and 2012 interim financial statements (source: Moody's and
issuer's quarterly unaudited financial statements); year-end
2012 audited financial statements (source: Banobras, audited
by Mancera, S.C. integrante de Ernst & Young Global,
Moody's and Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores); irrevocable
and unconditional guarantee from the United Mexican States (source:
Organic Law of Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos);
selling memoranda (source: Banobras).
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
Information sources used to prepare the rating are the following:
parties involved in the ratings, parties not involved in the ratings,
public information, and confidential and proprietary Moody's
information.
The rating has been disclosed to the rated entity prior to public dissemination.
A general listing of the sources of information used in the rating process,
and the structure and voting process for the rating committees responsible
for the assignment and monitoring of ratings can be found in the Disclosure
tab in www.moodys.com.mx.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides certain 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 certain 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 certain 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.mx.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this rating action, and
whose ratings may change as a result of this rating action, the
associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
In compliance with regulatory requirements, Moody's de Mexico
has been informed by Banobras that as of the end of the two-month
period prior to the date hereof, Fitch Ratings had assigned a rating
of AAA(mex) on the same securities referred to in this press release.
This Rating is subject to upgrade or downgrade based on future changes
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Moody's assigns Aaa.mx to Banobras' Certificados Bursátiles Bancarios
