Punjab & Sind Bank and Lakshmi Vilas Bank on Wednesday said rating firms have downgraded their bond programmes totalling over Rs 2,580 crore.
CARE has downgraded the rating on various bonds issued by the bank totalling Rs 2,537.30 crore, Punjab & Sind Bank said in a regulatory filing.
The ratings firm has downgraded the ratings on the bank’s Rs 1,000 crore Basel III compliant tier-I bonds to CARE A from CARE A+.
Among others, the ratings on lower tier-II bond issuances of Rs 300 crore, Rs 500 crore, Rs 237.30 crore and Rs 500 crore have been downgraded to CARE AA- (double A minus) from CARE AA each.
The outlook on all the five bond issuances remains at ‘negative’, the public sector lender said.
In a separate filing, private sector Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) said Brickwork Ratings India has downgraded the rating from “BWR BB+” (credit watch with developing implications) to “BWR B+” (credit watch with negative implications) for its unsecured redeemable non-convertible subordinated