Depfa ed HRE ufficializzano il mancato pagamento della cedola su di una serie di perpetuals, che conseguentemente vengono ulteriormente downgradati dalle agenzie...
Ratings On Various Depfa Funding LP, HRE International Trust I Hybrid Instruments Cut On Announcement Of Nonpayment
FRANKFURT (Standard & Poor's) March 4, 2009--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today it lowered its issue ratings on hybrid Tier 1 instruments issued by Depfa Funding IV LP to 'C' from 'CCC'. At the same time, we lowered to 'CC' from 'CCC' the issue ratings on hybrid Tier 1 instruments issued by Depfa Funding II LP, Depfa Funding III LP, and Hypo Real Estate International Trust I.
We have not assigned public ratings to other hybrid Tier 1 or upper
Tier 2 instruments issued by the Hypo Real Estate Group.
"This rating action follows yesterday's announcement by DEPFA BANK PLC
(BBB/Developing/A-2) that its Tier 1 issuing vehicle, Depfa Funding IV, will
not make payments on the next distribution date, March 21, 2009," said
Standard & Poor's credit analyst Stefan Best. "Although the bank announced that it has not made decisions on other Tier 1 instruments, we have lowered the ratings on those instruments by one notch because we consider it less likely than before that the bank will make payments on them.
For the same reason, we lowered the ratings on the Tier 1 instruments issued by Hypo Real Estate International Trust I."
Nonpayment on the hybrid instruments is not unexpected, considering the
risk characteristics of these instruments and that the group almost failed
because of severe liquidity pressure and has been supported by the German government since October 2008. On Oct. 24, 2008, we lowered the counterparty credit ratings on members of the Hypo Real Estate group to 'BBB/A-2' and cut the ratings on hybrid Tier 1 instruments to 'CCC' (for full details see "Seven Entities Of Hypo Real Estate Cut To 'BBB'; 'A-2' Affirmed; Off Watch; Outlook Developing," published on RatingsDirect).
RATINGS LIST
Downgraded To From
DEPFA Funding IV LP Preferred stock* C CCC
Depfa Funding II LP Preferred stock* CC CCC
Depfa Funding III LP Preferred stock* CC CCC
Hypo Real Estate International Trust I P.s. CC CCC
*Guaranteed by DEPFA BANK PLC.