ICRA Nepal reaffirms Issuer Rating of ICRANP-IR AA- to Nepal Reinsurance Company; rating indicates high degree of safety regarding timely servicing of financial obligations

ICRA Nepal Limited has reaffirmed Issuer Rating of  [ICRANP-IR] AA- (Pronounced as ICRA NP Issuer Rating  Double A Minus) to Nepal Reinsurance Company Limited.

Issuers with this rating are considered to have high degree of  safety regarding timely servicing of financial obligations.  Such issuers carry very low credit risk.   The Rating is only an opinion on the general creditworthiness of the rated entity and not specific to any particular debt instrument.

For the Rating categories [ICRANP-IR] AA through to [ICRANP-IR] C the sign of + (plus) or – (minus) may be appended to the Rating symbols to indicate their relative position within the Rating categories concerned. Thus, the Rating of [ICRANP-IR] AA+ is one notch higher than [ICRANP-IR] AA, while [ICRANP-IR] AA- is one notch lower than [ICRANP-IR] AA.