NOTE: On August 31, 2012, the press release was revised as follows: In the first sentence of the first paragraph, the first sentence of the second paragraph, and the third paragraph, Certificados Bursátiles Bancarios was corrected to Certificados Bursátiles.
Mexico, August 24, 2012 -- Moody's de México assigned an Aaa.mx long term Mexican National
Scale senior debt rating, with stable outlook, to Crédit
Agricole CIB México Productos Financieros, S.A.
de C.V., SOFOM, E.N.R.'s
(Crédit Agricole México) (formerly Calyon México
Productos Financieros, S.A. de C.V.,
SOFOM, E.N.R.) second issuance of Certificados Bursátiles. On its global scale Moody's Investors
Service assigned a long-term global local currency debt rating
of A2, with negative outlook, to these notes.
The second take-down of Certificados Bursátiles will be for an amount up to the equivalent of Mx$2 billion and
a maturity of up to four years. These notes represent the second
issuance under Crédit Agricole México's debt program (Programa
Dual Revolvente de Certificados Bursátiles) set for up to Mx$10
billion. The program was originally rated by Moody's on April 12,
2011.
The following senior debt ratings were assigned to Crédit Agricole
México's second issuance of Certificados Bursátiles:
- Long-term Mexican National Scale senior debt rating of
Aaa.mx, stable outlook
- Long-term global local currency senior debt rating of
A2, negative outlook
RATINGS RATIONALE
Crédit Agricole México's debt ratings are based on an irrevocable
and unconditional guarantee provided by Crédit Agricole Corporate
and Investment Bank, Société Anonyme (Credit Agricole)
rated A2/negative/Prime-1 by Moody's Investors Service.
The methodology used in rating Credit Agricole was "Moody's
Consolidated Global Bank Rating Methodology" published in June 2012.
Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com for
a copy of this methodology.
The date of the last Credit Rating Action was 21 July 2012, when
Moody's downgraded firms with global capital markets operations.
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 Implementation Guidance published in March
2011 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.
Crédit Agricole México is headquartered in Mexico City.
As of 31 March 2012, the company reported Mx$2.0 billion
in assets (source: Moody's and Bolsa Mexicana de Valores).
The period of time covered in the financial information used to determine
the rating is between 31 December 2010 and 31 March 2012 (source:
Moody's and Crédit Agricole México).
The sources and items of information used to determine the rating include
2012 interim financial statements (source: Crédit Agricole
México); year-end 2010 and 2011 audited financial statements
(source: Crédit Agricole México, audited by
Mancera, S.C. member of Ernst & Young Global Limited);
irrevocable and unconditional guarantees from Crédit Agricole (source:
Crédit Agricole México); debt offering memoranda (source:
Crédit Agricole México).
Additional information on Rating Symbols and Definitions, issuer,
lead analyst, ratings history, etc., can be found
in Moody's local website www.moodys.com.mx.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
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 rating has been disclosed to the rated entity prior to public dissemination.
Information sources used to prepare the rating are the following:
parties involved in the ratings, parties not involved in the ratings,
public information, confidential and proprietary Moody's Investors
Service information.
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.
In compliance with regulatory requirements, Moody's de Mexico
has been informed that during the two-month period prior to the
execution of the rating agreement governing this rating assignment,
no other credit rating agency has assigned a rating on the same issuer/securities
referred to in this press release.
The ratings issued by Moody's de Mexico are opinions regarding the
credit quality of securities and/or their issuers and not a recommendation
to invest in any such security and/or issuer.
Moody's considers the quality of information available on the rated entity,
obligation or credit satisfactory for the purposes of issuing a rating.
Moody's adopts all necessary measures so that the information it uses
in assigning a rating 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.
Please see Moody's Rating Symbols and Definitions on the Rating Process
page on www.moodys.com.mx 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.mx
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.mx
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.
The ratings issued by Moody's de Mexico are opinions regarding the credit
quality of securities and/or their issuers and not a recommendation to
invest in any such security and/or issuer.
David Olivares Villagomez
VP - Senior Credit Officer
Financial Institutions Group
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Moody's assigns Aaa.mx to Crédit Agricole CIB México Productos Financieros' certificados bursátiles