{"id":26368,"date":"2025-03-13T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26368"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:45:53","slug":"moodys-raises-banking-outlook-to-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26368","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s raises banking outlook to positive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12134142619f3a2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12134142619f3a2.webp 800w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12134142619f3a2-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12134142619f3a2-768x461.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : The global rating agency Moody&#8217;s has upgraded the Pakistani banking outlook from stable to positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reflects the banking sectors resilient financial performance and improving macroeconomic conditions from the extremely weak levels observed a year ago.<br>Moody\u2019s indicated that the positive outlook for the banking sector reflects the Government of Pakistan\u2019s (Caa2 positive) positive outlook as well. They noted that Pakistani banks have significant exposure to the sovereign, with large holdings of government securities making up about half of total banking assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, they highlighted that Pakistan\u2019s long-term debt sustainability remains a critical risk due to its persistently weak fiscal position and high liquidity and external vulnerability risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBanks will maintain adequate capital buffers, supported by subdued loan growth and solid cash generation, despite dividend payouts remaining high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moody\u2019s emphasized that the outlook was upgraded from stable to positive due to an improved operating environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : The global rating agency Moody&#8217;s has upgraded the Pakistani banking outlook from stable to positive. It reflects the banking sectors resilient financial performance and improving macroeconomic conditions from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2586,1905],"class_list":["post-26368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-moodys-international","tag-state-bank-of-pakistans-sbp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26370,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/26370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}