Fitch Ratings has taken rating action on Sri Lankan non-financial corporates following the recalibration of its Sri Lankan National Rating scale to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among the country’s issuers following the downgrade of the sovereign rating to ‘CCC’ from ‘B-‘ on 27 November 2020. Fitch typically does not assign Outlooks or apply modifiers to sovereigns with a rating of ‘CCC’ or below. For details, see “Fitch Ratings Recalibrates its Sri Lankan National Rating Scale”, dated 22 December 2020, at www.fitchratings.com/site/pr/10147729.
The recalibration of our Sri Lankan National Rating scale has resulted in rating affirmations in some cases and the assignment of revision ratings to others. Revision ratings are used to modify ratings for reasons that are not related to credit quality.