IIB decided to go another step forward in the capital market funding strategy and tap the outstanding April 2021 CZK Floater with an amount of 249 m, totaling to CZK 750 m. Erste Group, the Lead Manager of the transaction indicated that a Czech investor who already held IIB’s issues in its portfolio, is very much interested to increase its exposure on IIB. In spite of the volatile capital market environment, on the back of the rating upgrade of IIB to A3 by Moody’s, the increase of the debut…  Read more

On April 30, 2018, Moody’s Investors Services took another positive action on International Investment Bank as it upgraded IIB’s long-term rating to A3 stable. The report states that, “the main drivers for the rating upgrade are IIB’s improvement in asset quality, more robust risk management systems, an increasingly diversified loan book and funding strategy and the strengthened credit quality of its treasury portfolio”. Moody’s underline that IIB’s new medium-term strategy will likely…  Read more

On May 5th, 2017, Moody’s Investors Service changed the rating outlook on the International Investment Bank (IIB) to positive from stable and affirmed the IIB’s Baa1 issuer and debt ratings. According to the Moody’s official statement, change of the outlook was due to the following main drivers:“the increased diversification of the IIB’s loan portfolio and the maintenance of relatively strong asset quality”, “the improved credit quality of the IIB’s treasury portfolio” and “the increased…  Read more