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Moody’s Downgrades World’s Oldest Bank To ‘Junk’
Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:42
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france24.com
October 18, 2012
Moody’s credit rating
agency on Thursday downgraded the world’s oldest bank, Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, to “junk” status on worries government recapitalisation plans will prove insufficient.
The lowering of BMPS’s rating by two notches to “Baaa3?, a non-investment grade, reflects Moody’s view that “there remains a material probability that the bank will need to seek further external support,” the agency said.
Critically exposed to the eurozone debt crisis, in June BMPS was forced to accept a government bailout, borrowing roughly 1.5 billion euros ($1.87 billion) in order to pay off debt and shore up its capital.
