MARC has lowered its ratings on Ample Zone Berhad’s (Ample Zone) RM9.65 million Class B Sukuk Ijarah (sukuk) and RM75 million Class C sukuk to BB+IS and B-IS from A-IS and B+IS respectively. The outlook on the ratings remains negative. The downgrades reflect a heightened risk that upcoming payment obligations in January 2012 will be missed, based on the unsatisfactory progress to date in col...

MARC has lowered its ratings on Ample Zone Berhad’s (Ample Zone) RM10.9 million Class B Sukuk Ijarah (Sukuk) to A-IS from AA+IS, and affirmed RM75 million Class C at B+IS. The outlook on the ratings remains negative. The rating downgrade on the Class B Sukuk reflects severe stress on the property-backed transaction caused by continued non-payment of rentals from entities related to Talam Cor...

MARC has affirmed its AA+IS rating on Ample Zone Berhad’s (AZB) Sukuk Al-Ijarah (Sukuk) RM13.3 million Class B and lowered its rating on the RM75.0 million Class C Sukuk to B+IS from BB-IS. Additionally, MARC has assigned negative outlooks to both classes of Sukuk to reflect the downward pressure on the ratings arising from the continuing failure of entities related to AZB to pay rent for sp...

MARC has affirmed its AA+IS rating on Ample Zone Berhad’s (AZB) Sukuk Al-Ijarah (Sukuk) RM13.3 million Class B and lowered its rating on the RM75.0 million Class C Sukuk to B+IS from BB-IS. Additionally, MARC has assigned negative outlooks to both classes of Sukuk to reflect the downward pressure on the ratings arising from the continuing failure of entities related to AZB to pay rent for sp...

MARC has upgraded the rating of Ample Zone Berhad’s Sukuk Al-Ijarah (Sukuk) Class B of RM13.3 million from AIS to AA+IS and affirmed the rating of the RM75.0 million Class C Sukuk at BB-IS. The rating upgrade of Class B Sukuk reflects improvement in collateral value backing the Sukuk following the recent full redemption of Class A Sukuk as reflected in a significantly lower loan-to-value (LT...

MARC has reaffirmed the ratings of Ample Zone Berhad’s Sukuk Al-Ijarah (Sukuk) Class A of RM50 million and Class B of RM25 million at AA+ID and AID respectively. However, the RM75.0 million Class C Sukuk has been downgraded to BB-ID from BBID. The ratings of Class A and Class B Sukuk reflects the collateral backing the Sukuk; loan-to-values (LTV) which were within MARC’s acceptable ...

MARC has downgraded the ratings of Ample Zone Berhad’s (AZB) Sukuk Al-Ijarah comprising of RM50 million Class A Sukuk, RM25 million Class B Sukuk and RM75 million Class C Sukuk (Sukuk) from AAAID, AAID and AID to AA+ID, AID and BBID, respectively. The ratings reflect the deterioration of AZB’s cash flow resulting from the non rental payment from subsidiaries of Talam Corporation Berhad...

Under this Ijarah sale and lease back transaction, Ample Zone Berhad (AZB), a special purpose vehicle with certain bankruptcy remoteness features, incorporated solely to undertake this securitisation exercise, will acquire four buildings (Assets) from three subsidiaries of Talam Corporation Berhad (TCB) and one private company (Sellers). AZB will lease the Assets back to the Sellers under Ijarah...