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Ukraine cancels obligation to assign rating for bond issues
Today at 12:05 | Interfax-Ukraine
The State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market has canceled an obligatory requirement on the assignment of ratings for the issue of bonds, mortgage certificates and certificates of the fund for transactions with real estate.
The decision of the commission (No. 1057 of Oct. 16, 2009) took effect in ten days after its registration in the Justice Ministry, which occurred on Nov. 17, 2009 and was announced on Nov. 30.
The decision says that amendments to five resolutions of the commission were made: on the procedure for the registration of issues of corporate, municipal and mortgage bonds, mortgage certificates and certificates of the fund for transactions with real estate. Now the rating evaluation is done only if issuers have the said information.
As reported, the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, soon after Serhiy Petrashko was appointed its head in early June, took a decision in principle to cancel the obligatory requirement to assign ratings during the issue of bonds, mortgage certificates and certificates of the fund for transactions with real estate.
"Thus, we free the whole stock market from extra obligatory payments," he said.
Ukraine has only one rating agency Credit-Rating. Issuers can also receive ratings from leading international agencies.