Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Fitch Affirms Saudi Banks; Downgrades 2 Viability Ratings

(The following statement was released by the rating agency)

DUBAI/LONDON, September 21 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has affirmed 11

Saudi Arabian

banks' Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (LTIDRs) and downgraded

the Viability

Ratings (VRs) of two of the reviewed banks, Riyad Bank (Riyad)

and Arab National

Bank (ANB), to 'bbb+' from 'a-'. The Outlook for all banks is

Negative. A full

list of rating actions is available at the end of this rating

action commentary.

The downgraded VRs of Riyad and ANB re

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