OREANDA-NEWS. Subsidiary Organization JSC VTB Bank (Kazakhstan) (Almaty, hereinafter – then Bank), whose bonds are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has by an official letter informed KASE "of Standard & Poor's downgrading on February 4, 2015 the Bank's rating from level "ВВ+/Negative/В" to "ВВ/Negative/В" on global scale and from "kzAA-" to "kzA+" on national scale".

The press-release of agency Standard & Poor's in English dated February 4, 2015 provided by Subsidiary Organization JSC VTB Bank (Kazakhstan), is available on KASE website at http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/BVTB/bvtb_reliz_040215.pdf