VOL. XLV

No 11

18-March-2002

OMAN

CI Assigns Rating To Omans Alliance Housing Bank

Ratings agency Capital Intelligence (CI) announcedon 8 March that it had assigned Alliance Housing Bank (AHB) initial long andshort-term foreign currency ratings of BB+ and A3 respectively and a domesticstrength rating of BBB- with a stable outlook. The sovereign rating for Oman is BBB long-term and A3 short-term. In a statement,the agency said that the bank, which is theonly private sector housing bank in the...