Basel Committee reduces sovereign role in bank capital calculations
Capital requirements for banks may edge higher under the new Basel rules, which reduces sovereign role in the capital calculation, ...
Friday, April 3, 2026
Tag: Fitch Ratings
Moody’s, Fitch brush off shutdown threat to U.S. sovereign rating
As the United States shutdown enters the third day with a projected telling effect on the economy, international rating agencies, ...
Fitch sees bleak outlook for reinsurance on back of Q3 weather catastrophes, depressed prices
Fitch ratings has seen bleak future for reinsurance because of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and a couple of earthquakes that ...
Declining yields of Nigerian treasury bills may hurt banks’ interest income – Fitch
The high treasury bill yields, which have helped banks in recent times to maintain their margins, may decline in the ...
Nigerian banks turning to Eurobonds to ease foreign currency maturity gaps as $4bn already issued end-June – Fitch
The return of Nigerian banks to the international bond markets marks a small step towards reducing maturity mismatches between foreign-currency ...
Quantitative easing, world growth buoy global rating outlooks, says Fitch
Global rating outlooks remain on an improving trend and are on balance less negative than at the start of the ...
Nigerian smaller banks more at risk on growing NPL levels as some lenders record lower capital ratios
BMI Research, a Fitch company, has indicated that Nigerian smaller banks are on top of risk watch on growing non-performing ...
Qatar cut to AA- by Fitch with no end in sight to Gulf dispute
Qatar’s sovereign rating was cut to AA- by Fitch Ratings, which cited little progress toward ending a Saudi Arabia-led embargo ...
Global bank ratings trend sharply negative in H1 2017 as emerging markets dominate downgrades
Global bank rating trends were sharply negative in the first half of 2017 with downgrades significantly outnumbering upgrades, says Fitch ...
London’s big bang banking hub pivots for post-Brexit reinvention
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