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SA-based World Credit score halts Prime Financial institution’s Tausi Assurance score
Wednesday January 06 2021
Prime Financial institution head workplace in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Abstract
- GCR says the A score issued after a evaluate in October 2019, indicating excessive credit score high quality and certainty of well timed funds, has been withdrawn.
- The rankings agency, nevertheless, stated this didn’t imply the corporate shouldn’t be paying its debt or struggling to remain afloat.
South Africa’s rankings agency World Credit score Rankings (GCR) has suspended the credit score profile of Prime Financial institution’s Tausi Assurance firm for failing to reveal some data.
GCR says the A score issued after a evaluate in October 2019, indicating excessive credit score high quality and certainty of well timed funds, has been withdrawn.
The rankings agency, nevertheless, stated this didn’t imply the corporate shouldn’t be paying its debt or struggling to remain afloat.
“GCR has suspended Tausi Assurance Firm Restricted’s nationwide scale monetary energy score of A(KE) with out evaluate. No data has been acquired and subsequently a evaluate of the rankings can’t be finalised based mostly on GCR’s data sufficiency customary requirement,” GCR stated.
“A credit standing suspension doesn’t suggest that the entity shouldn’t be servicing its debt obligations or that its monetary place has deteriorated, however relatively that it has failed to supply necessary data pertaining to its credit score profile,” the rankings agency stated.
Prime Financial institution purchased Tausi Assurance in 2018 in a takeover that noticed the lender achieve 80.7 per cent management of the insurance coverage options supplier.
The acquisition was meant to assist the lender scale as much as supply its clients a variety of insurance coverage options by way of the financial institution’s community.
Established in 1992, Tausi Assurance covers all industrial dangers, hearth, enterprise interruption, engineering, housebreaking, marine, workmen’s compensation and group private accident.
The agency additionally gives cowl in opposition to loss emanating from political violence and terrorism, home insurance coverage and motorcar accidents.