MARC has affirmed Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad's (KFHMB) long-term and short-term financial institution (FI) ratings of AA+/MARC-1 as well as the AAA/MARC-1 ratings on its parent, Kuwait Finance House K.S C. (KFH). The outlook on all ratings is stable.KFHMB's affirmed ratings continue to be driven by MARC's expectation of parent support being available to the bank. MARC's top-down approa...

MARC has affirmed Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad's (KFHMB) long-term and short-term financial institution ratings of AA+/MARC-1, following the rating agency’s affirmation of the long-term and short-term financial institution ratings of its parent, Kuwait Finance House K.S.C. (KFH) at AAA/MARC-1. The outlook on the ratings of both institutions is stable. The long-term rating of KFHMB ...

MARC has commented that Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad's (KFHMB) ratings of AA+/MARC-1 are not affected following its first quarter earnings announcement for 2012, in which it also reported an after tax loss of RM596 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2011. Although the bank's balance sheet strength had been impacted by the huge losses due largely to provisioning for non-per...

MARC has affirmed Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad's (KFHMB) long-term and short-term financial institution ratings of AA+/MARC-1, following the rating agency's affirmation of the long-term and short-term financial institution ratings of its parent, Kuwait Finance House K.S.C. (KFH) at AAA/MARC-1. The outlook on the ratings of both institutions has been revised to stable from negative.The lo...

MARC has affirmed Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad’s (KFHMB) long- and short-term financial institution ratings at AA+/MARC-1. The affirmation of KFHMB’s ratings follows the affirmation of the long-term and short-term financial institution ratings of its parent, Kuwait Finance House K.S.C. at AAA/MARC-1. KFHMB is rated one notch below KFH to reflect the strategic importance of th...

Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad (KFHMB) announced recently that it is in the midst of conducting a due diligence status audit on certain past transactions and contractual arrangements of the bank with a view to strengthen its credit processes, and ultimately, asset quality. MARC does not see any immediate rating implications for KFHMB's financial institution ratings of AA+/MARC-1. At a meet...

MARC has affirmed Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad’s (KFHMB) long-term and short-term financial institution ratings at AA+/MARC-1. KFHMB’s ratings are based on MARC’s top-down approach in its assessment of KFHMB’s linkage with its parent, Kuwait Finance House K.S.C. (KFH) and the affirmation of KFH’s financial institution ratings at AAA/MARC-1. KFH’s ratin...

MARC has assigned long term and short term financial institution ratings of AA+/MARC-1 to Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad (KFHMB). The ratings carry a stable outlook. The ratings of KFHMB are anchored to MARC’s AAA/MARC-1 financial institution ratings on Kuwait Finance House KSC (KFH) on the basis of an explicit intent of support extended to KFHMB by KFH. KFH’s ratings reflect i...