OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2012. RusRating has assigned a credit rating to LLC KB Investsocbank (Moscow). The rating is “BB” on the national scale and “B” on the international scale, in both cases with a positive outlook.

According to the agency, the rating is based on support from the Bank’s owners (including ties to the client base), high capital adequacy, the absence of losses even at this early stage of operations, and a favourable assessment of growth prospects.

Constraining factors include a short history with the new owners of the bank and their active involvement from 2011, weakly-developed market positions, above-average risks arising from assets and liabilities concentrated by individual creditor (debtor), elevated sensitivity to credit risks coupled with minimal loan loss reserves, and modest earnings performance.

Investsocbank is a smaller bank that was taken over by new owners in December 2011 and subsequently adopted a new client-oriented development strategy aimed at providing individually-tailored services to stable and profitable businesses. The current client base draws mainly on the owners’ business ties. The Bank is not involved in speculative activity.