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EUROPE
* Fitch upgraded Ukraine's long-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings to B from B-. The outlook on the ratings is positive.
* Moody's changed the outlook on Serbia's Ba3 ratings to positive from stable. The agency also affirmed the country's Ba3 long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings.
* S&P Global Ratings affirmed Kazakhstan's BBB-/A-3 long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings, with a stable outlook. Kazakhstan's kzAAA national scale rating and BBB- senior unsecured debt rating were also affirmed. Separately, Fitch Ratings affirmed Kazakhstan's BBB/F2 long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings, with stable outlooks on the long-term ratings, as well as its BBB+ country ceiling and BBB long-term senior unsecured debt rating.
* Fitch affirmed Luxembourg's long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings at AAA/F1+, with stable outlooks. Its country ceiling and long-term senior unsecured debt rating were affirmed at AAA. DBRS also confirmed Luxembourg's long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency issuer ratings at AAA/R-1 (high), with stable trends.
* Fitch upgraded the short-term issuer default and deposit ratings of Germany's Commerzbank AG to F1 from F2. The ratings were removed from under criteria observation.
* Fitch affirmed European Investment Bank's AAA/F1+ long- and short-term issuer default ratings, with a stable outlook on the long-term rating. Its long-term senior unsecured debt rating was also affirmed, at AAA.
* S&P Global Ratings affirmed Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank's AAA/A-1+ long- and short-term issuer credit ratings, with a stable outlook. The agency also affirmed the German bank's AAA senior unsecured debt rating.
* Fitch assigned an F1 short-term issuer default rating to Land Securities Plc, a direct subsidiary of U.K.-based diversified real estate investment trust Landsec.
* S&P Global Ratings affirmed the long- and short-term issuer credit ratings of Netherlands-based Achmea Bank NV at A-/A-2, with a stable outlook on the long-term rating. Its senior unsecured debt rating was affirmed at A-.
* S&P Global Ratings affirmed Kazakhstan-based Bank assa Nova JSC's B/B long- and short-term issuer credit ratings, with a stable outlook. The agency also affirmed the bank's kzBB+ Kazakhstan national scale rating.
* Moody's withdrew Hungary-based Takarék Jelzálogbank Nyrt.'s Ba3/Not Prime long- and short-term local- and foreign-currency bank deposit ratings, among other ratings. The long-term deposit ratings carried a positive outlook at the time of withdrawal.
MIDDLE EAST
* Capital Intelligence Ratings affirmed the long- and short-term foreign-currency ratings of Lebanon-based Bank Audi SAL and Byblos Bank SAL at B/B and assigned them bank standalone ratings of "b". The outlook on the long-term foreign-currency ratings and bank standalone ratings is negative. The agency also assigned the banks core financial strength ratings of "bb-" and extraordinary support levels of Uncertain.
AFRICA
* CI Ratings affirmed Egypt's B+/B long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency ratings, with stable outlooks.
* Fitch affirmed the Republic of Congo's CCC/C long- and short-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings and downgraded the country ceiling to B+ from BB-. Its long-term senior unsecured debt rating was affirmed at CCC.
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