OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2011. According to the agency, the rating increase reflects an improvement in earnings coupled with continuing healthy asset quality and moderate sensitivity to risks.

The rating itself is based on the financial and image support provided by international financial organisations, healthy capital adequacy, and a favourable assessment of asset quality.

Constraining factors include a funding base concentrated on retail deposits and a regionally-concentrated business.

NBD-Bank is a smaller private-sector regional bank in which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development holds an equity stake. Business projects centre on small or mid-sized firms and are backed by the resources of international financial organisations; retail operations are also being developed, with an emphasis on personal deposits. Securities market activity expanded in response to crisis conditions. NBD offers a wide range of banking products and has several sub-branches, most of which are located in its home region; it also maintains a presence in five cities elsewhere in the country.