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SICO Bahrain has issued a new report, "Dubai Debt Concerns Deferred to 2014".  SICO Research is only available to registered use...

On 23 September, S&P announced it was withdrawing from rating CBK at the bank's request.  In line with standard operating procedure...

S&P has lowered Aldar's ratings to BB- from A-.   That's a more than one step change! Outlook is negative.  So S&P's mes...

Asa Fitch over at The National reports that an English Court has ruled in favor of ADCB ordering Saad Trading Contracting and Financial Se...

You'll recall that Bharti Airtel secured a US$7.5 billion loan last March to fund its purchase of African assets from Zain Kuwait.  Or...

Today an apparently rather "pleased" as well as "satisfied" BIsB announced that: BisB has taken the option of enhanci...

8 July 2010 - Approximately US$1.25 billion in debt affected Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded to B3 from B2 the senior ...

Pass the smelling salts! There it was today an announcement on the BSE .  None so far on the DFM or on the KSE - but it's still early...

Asa Fitch at The National has an article on Moody's recent downgrade of DHCOG. "The credit ratings agency downgraded Dubai Holdi...

Today the race is finally over.   While the IT Team at Adeem Investments put up an  incredible fight, at the last moment the GFH Team lappe...

You'll remember a while back there was quite a "war of words" between S&P and DCHOG when S&P downgraded them to B.  ...

As we are informed by The National, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) yesterday launched a regional credit-ratings system through which compan...

On the theory that regulators often craft regulations to deal with problems that have emerged, the 11 February Consultation Paper by the CB...

The Treasury Secretary of the United States of America gave an interview with ABC this weekend.  He was asked about Moody's comment tha...

Earlier this week, Emirates National Bank NBD announced that it was terminating S&P's rating services.  The market assumption is th...

"What is thy bidding, my master?" "There is a great disturbance in the Ratings". "I have felt it". ...

You've probably seen the press articles that Standard and Poor's lowered the rating on DHCOG from BB+ to B.  A weaker cash flow ...

Here's a news item with some quotes from Moody's press release on the downgrade.   And another here . You can register for "...

Standard and Poor's analyzes the health of national banking sectors and then assigns them a rating from 1 (best) to 10 (worst). Here...