{"id":17895,"date":"2018-07-10T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2018-07-10T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:02:03","slug":"greek-bonds-rated-investment-grade-for-first-time-since-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/17895","title":{"rendered":"Greek Bonds Rated \u2018Investment\u2019 Grade for First Time Since Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"td-outer-wrap\" class=\"td-theme-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td-main-content-wrap td-container-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td-container td-post-template-default \">\n<div class=\"td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"td-pb-span8 td-main-content\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"td-ss-main-content\">\n<article id=\"post-527487\" class=\"post-527487 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-economy category-greek-news tag-greece tag-greece-bonds tag-greece-news tag-greek-economy tag-greek-news-today\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<h3>Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s have announced the upgrade of National Bank of Greece\u2019s three-year covered bonds worth \u20ac750 million ($881 million) to the BBB- credit rating, four notches above the country\u2019s credit rating.<\/h3>\n<h3>According to economic analysts, this rating covers not only this specific bond issue but any future issues approved by National Bank in the framework of the covered bond 2 programme.<\/h3>\n<h3>It is the first time since the start of the economic crisis in Greece that a bond issued by a Greek bank is rated as \u201cinvestment grade\u201d and it is the first to be included in the category of selected securities for the refinancing mechanism of the European Central Bank, ensuring zero cost for bondholders and a further positive course in the secondary bond market.<\/h3>\n<h3>Analysts said the investment grade for the covered bonds of the programme 2 is a landmark in National Bank\u2019s efforts to return to international capital markets and a giant step towards the quality expansion of its investment base.<\/h3>\n<h3>It also shows National Bank\u2019s adherence to a plan to fully exploit the possibilities of its loan portfolio, ensuring the necessary flexibility in exploiting liquidity sources.<\/h3>\n<h3><em>(Source: AMNA)<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s have announced the upgrade of National Bank of Greece\u2019s three-year covered bonds worth \u20ac750 million ($881 million) to the BBB- credit rating, four notches above the country\u2019s credit rating. According to economic analysts, this rating covers not only this specific bond issue but any future issues approved by National Bank in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17897,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/17897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}