Eskom is no longer on Fitch’s negative watch list
Eskom says this affirms its significant progress in improving the company’s liquidity health and resolving corporate governance challenges
Eskom has been removed from Fitch Rating’s “rating watch negative” list, reducing the risk the power utility's credit rating being cut to Fitch’s fourth tier of junk in the near future. Fitch informed Eskom that its credit rating remains BB- with negative outlook, the state-owned enterprise (SOE) said in a media release on Friday. “The decision to affirm the rating and remove the rating watch negative (RWN) on Eskom is a positive indication of the ratings agency’s view that Eskom has made significant progress towards improving the company’s liquidity health and resolving corporate governance challenges that plagued the company,” Eskom said. By the end of September, Eskom had secured about 72% of the R72bn it needs to borrow in its 2019 financial year and is fairly confident it can raise the remainder. “The ratings action is an affirmation of extensive measures implemented by the company’s leadership in transitioning Eskom from business-as-usual towards sustainability,” Eskom CEO Pha...
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