Financial Institutions S&P Affirms Egypt’s Ratings at ‘B-/B’ Yomna Yasser May 17, 2014 0 Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Friday maintained the credit ratings of the Arab republic of Egypt and…
Financial Institutions UK LIoyds’s Joins Egypt Regulator’s List of Accredited Reinsurers Yomna Yasser Jan 18, 2014 0 Egypt has recently included the world’s specialist insurance and reinsurance market LIoyd’s to its list of…
Banks Egypt’s Dollar Debt Costs Plunge As Gulf Money Trumps Low Demand Yomna Yasser Nov 26, 2013 0 Egypt paid the lowest yield on record to raise $1.8 billion in an auction of dollar-denominated treasury bills as…
Banks S&P Raises Long Term Ratings on Egyptian Banks After Similar Action on Sovereign Yomna Yasser Nov 19, 2013 0 Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has raised on Monday its long-term counterparty credit ratings on National…
Financial Institutions S&P Raises Egypt Ratings to B- from CCC+ Yomna Yasser Nov 16, 2013 0 Standard & Poor's Ratings has raised its sovereign credit ratings for Egypt to 'B-/B' from 'CCC+/C', saying it…
Financial Institutions Fitch Warns It May Cut U.S. Credit Rating from AAA Yomna Yasser Oct 16, 2013 0 Fitch Ratings warned on Tuesday it could cut the sovereign credit rating of the United States from AAA, citing the…
Banks S&P Downgrades Bahrain’s Al Baraka Bank to Junk Status Yomna Yasser Aug 9, 2013 0 Bahraini lender Al Baraka has been downgraded to junk status by Standard & Poor's, the only credit rating…
Banks Italy Banks Bad Loans Underline Southern Europe Malaise Yomna Yasser Aug 1, 2013 0 Italian banks are more reluctant to lend as a recession saddles them with mounting bad debt, highlighting a growing…
Blogging Ex FinMin: Egypt Needs One-Year Moratorium on Street Protests – Ex FinMin Yomna Yasser Jul 26, 2013 0 A year ago, it became clear to me that the Arab Spring would not succeed in Egypt unless a deadlock between the…
Banks Europe’s Safest Bank Shows S&P Fading Role in Funding Debate Yomna Yasser Jul 26, 2013 0 Investors are ignoring criticism from Standard & Poor’s that Svenska Handelsbanken AB (SHBA) is too reliant on…