Rating action           MARC Ratings has affirmed its public information sovereign rating of AAA/Stable on Malaysia, based on its national rating scale. Rationale    The rating reflects the country’s credit strengths, including a competitive and diversified economy that has maintained a relatively steady growth trajectory. For 2023, Malaysia...

Rationale     MARC Ratings has affirmed its public information local currency sovereign rating of AAA/stable on Malaysia, based on its national sovereign rating scale.  Under this rating scale, the sovereign state of Malaysia carries the lowest relative risk for reasons that include its authority to tax and set interest rates.The rating reflects the country’s credit strengths...

Rationale     MARC has affirmed its public information local currency sovereign rating of AAA/stable on Malaysia, based on its national sovereign rating scale.  Under this rating scale, the sovereign state of Malaysia carries the lowest relative risk for reasons that include its authority to tax and set interest rates.The rating reflects several credit strengths, including a co...

MARC has affirmed its public information foreign currency sovereign rating of AAA/stable on Malaysia, based on its national rating scale.  The AAA rating reflects several credit strengths, including a competitive and well diversified economy. It was, for example, positioned relatively high at number 27 in the 2019 edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 rankin...

MARC has affirmed Malaysia’s sovereign rating of AAA with a stable outlook based on the agency’s national rating scale. The AAA rating reflects the resilience of the Malaysian economy, its effective monetary policy, as well as a healthy external position. Its rating strengths are, however, tempered by persistent fiscal deficits, high government debt and rising contingent liability, as well a...

MARC has affirmed Malaysia’s sovereign rating of AAA with a stable outlook based on its national scale. The AAA rating reflects MARC’s opinion on the sovereign’s ability to meet its local currency obligations. It represents the sovereign’s ordinal ranking of creditworthiness within the country and excludes foreign currency transfer and convertibility risks. It is based solely on an analys...

MARC has affirmed Malaysia’s sovereign rating of AAA with a stable outlook based on its national scale. The AAA rating reflects MARC’s opinion on the sovereign’s ability to meet its local currency obligations. It represents the sovereign’s ordinal ranking of creditworthiness within the country and excludes foreign currency transfer and convertibility risks. It is based solely on an analys...

MARC has affirmed Malaysia’s sovereign rating of AAA with a stable outlook based on its national scale. The AAA rating reflects MARC’s opinion on the sovereign’s ability to meet its local currency obligations. The rating of AAA represents the sovereign’s ordinal ranking of creditworthiness within the country and excludes foreign currency transfer and convertibility risks. ...

MARC has assigned a national scale sovereign rating of ‘AAA’ to Malaysia with a stable outlook. The Malaysian national scale sovereign rating is essentially a local currency rating and does not capture foreign currency transfer and convertibility (T&C) risks. As the ‘AAA’ rating is the highest grade rating that can be assigned to any local or foreign domiciled ringgit M...