S&P rates Banco Schahin notes B

Standard & Poor's said it assigned its B foreign-currency long-term senior unsecured debt rating to Banco Schahin SA's $20 million notes to be issued on Jan. 30 under the $100 million short-term note program.

The counterparty credit rating on Banco Schahin (B/stable/B) reflects the intrinsic risks of a small bank facing the challenge of growing its business while maintaining adequate funding in the increasingly competitive banking market, the weak credit quality of its remaining wholesale portfolio that, despite improvement, is still worse than that of its major peers and like all the banks that operate in the same market, the margin pressure related to retail lending, the agency said.

S&P added these risk factors are offset by the bank's coherent strategy to generate more retail business while gradually reducing the weight of loans to small and midsize companies, the improvement in credit quality and profitability through the increase of its retail operations and the conservative approach of its Treasury activity.

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