Fitch rates BPER’s senior non-preferred debt ‘bb’

BPER Banca announces that Fitch has today, for the first time, assigned BPER’s EUR 6 bn Euro Medium-Term Note (EMTN) programme a Senior Non-Preferred long-term rating of “BB”. It is recalled that, on 27 July 2022, the bank’s senior unsecured and subordinated debt ratings were affirmed by the agency at ‘BB+’ and ‘BB-’ respectively, while the outlook on the long-term issuer rating (‘BB+’) was upgraded to Positive from Stable.