Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Fitch: India's First Offshore Basel III AT1 Issue A Positive

(The following statement was released by the rating agency)

MUMBAI/SINGAPORE, September 14 (Fitch) A successful cross-border

Additional Tier

1 (AT1) issue by State Bank of India (SBI, BBB-/Stable), India's

largest bank by

assets, would be a positive development for India's banking

system, Fitch

Ratings says.

The first cross-border deal in the dollar AT1 market from an

Indian bank would

open up a new source of much-needed regulatory capital and

provide a pricing

benchmark for other banks ke

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