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Moody's downgrades the local currency ratings of Pakistani banks; outlook negative

10 Dec 2010

Foreign currency ratings affirmed

Limassol, December 10, 2010 -- Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded by one notch the global local-currency (GLC) deposit ratings and standalone bank financial strength ratings (BFSRs) of five Pakistani banks: Allied Bank Ltd (ABL), Habib Bank Ltd (HBL), MCB Bank Ltd (MCB), National Bank of Pakistan Ltd (NBP) and United Bank Ltd (UBL).

At the same time, Moody's has affirmed the foreign-currency deposit ratings assigned to these banks at B3/Not Prime (Stable outlook). The foreign-currency deposit ratings remain constrained by Pakistan's B3 (Stable outlook) country ceiling for foreign-currency deposits. Please see a full list of the rating actions below.

RATINGS RATIONALE

Moody's notes that the rating downgrades are primarily driven by the Pakistani banks' growing exposure to (B3 rated) Pakistan government securities and government-related lending, as a consequence of limited private sector lending opportunities within the country's deteriorating macroeconomic conditions. Moody's estimates that as of end-June 2010, the rated Pakistani banks' total exposure to sovereign-related risk assets had reached 38% of their total assets, from 24% in 2008, representing a material exposure concentration and raising the banking system's susceptibility to event risk at the B3 sovereign level. While the financial fundamentals of Pakistani banks have shown relative resilience during adverse conditions in previous years, their inability to curb their rising overall exposure to the government sector highlights the limitations in depth and diversification of the country's banking system. Although Moody's considers Pakistani rated banks' capitalisation levels as currently adequate, the high, and growing, exposure concentration to the B3-rated sovereign -- in conjunction with the prevailing weak macroeconomic conditions -- could challenge solvency levels. Driven by these considerations, Moody's has narrowed the gap between the Pakistani banks' ratings and the government rating (B3/stable).

As a result of the heavy flooding in Pakistan earlier this year, Moody's expects low economic growth and subdued loan demand from the private sector to prevail, leading to a further rise in banks' sovereign-related exposures, primarily in the form of T-Bills. At the same time, the sovereign structural subsidy-related debt arrears, mainly in the utility and commodity sectors, are unlikely to be settled in the near term, and such arrears will continue to exert further pressure on the corporate sector and, as a result, on the Pakistani banking system's asset quality.

Despite these growing challenges, Moody's believes that certain factors continue to support Pakistani banks' ratings being positioned at a higher level than the government rating. In particular, the rated banks have minimal reliance on sensitive market-funding, and instead display stable customer deposit-funded profiles that have shown a degree of stability during previous shocks or crises that Pakistan has experienced. Furthermore, Moody's believes that the rated banks' overall financial fundamentals remain relatively good, with profitability and capitalisation sufficiently absorbing the increased credit and impairment costs of the past two years, as stressed by the deterioration in asset quality, stemming from the challenging macroeconomic conditions.

Moody's decision to maintain the negative outlook on the banks' standalone and long-term local-currency deposit ratings reflects the Pakistani banking sector's still growing exposure concentration to the sovereign, and on-going vulnerability to macroeconomic deterioration, which could negatively impact both the sovereign and the country's banking system.

The rating actions are as follows:

-ABL's GLC deposit ratings have been downgraded by one notch to B1/Not Prime, from Ba3/Not Prime and its standalone BFSR to E+ (mapping to B1), from D-. The local currency deposit ratings carry a negative outlook.

-HBL's GLC deposit ratings have been downgraded by one notch to B1/Not Prime, from Ba3/Not Prime and its standalone BFSR to E+ (mapping to B1), from D-. The local currency deposit ratings carry a negative outlook.

-MCB's GLC deposit ratings have been downgraded by one notch to Ba3/Not Prime, from Ba2 / Not Prime and its standalone BFSR to D- (mapping to Ba3) from D. The ratings carry a negative outlook.

-NBP's GLC deposit ratings have been downgraded by one notch to Ba3/Not Prime, from Ba2/Not Prime and its standalone BFSR to D- (mapping to Ba3), from D. The ratings carry a negative outlook.

-UBL's GLC deposit ratings have been downgraded by one notch to B1/Not Prime, from Ba3/Not Prime and its standalone BFSR to E+ (mapping to B1), from D-. The local currency deposit ratings carry a negative outlook.

The principal methodologies used in this rating were "Bank Financial Strength Ratings: Global Methodology", published in February 2007, and "Incorporation of Joint-Default Analysis into Moody's Bank Ratings: A Refined Methodology", published in March 2007.

The last rating action for all Pakistani rated banks was implemented on 2 September 2010, when Moody's changed the outlook on their local currency deposit ratings and standalone ratings to negative, from stable.

Headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan, Allied Bank had total assets of USD4.8 billion as of the end of September 2010.

Headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, Habib Bank had total assets of USD10.1 billion as of the end of September 2010.

Headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan, MCB Bank had total assets of USD6.3 billion as of the end of September 2010.

Headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, National Bank of Pakistan had total assets of USD10.9 billion as of the end of September 2010.

Headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, United Bank had total assets of USD7.6 billion as of the end of September 2010.

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Moody's downgrades the local currency ratings of Pakistani banks; outlook negative
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