VTB BANK 
By 14 January 2014
VTB Group announces that its Russian subsidiaries, including VTB 24, Bank of Moscow and VTB Insurance, have terminated their contractual relationships with Fitch Ratings due to the continued lack of professionalism demonstrated by the ratings agency.
As previously noted, VTB Bank, the Group's parent company, terminated its contractual relationship with Fitch in 2012. Since that time the agency has not had access to non-public information that the bank makes available to other ratings agencies, and therefore does not have the data necessary to make qualified assessments of VTB's creditworthiness. Despite this, Fitch has continued to assign ratings to VTB Bank and its subsidiaries solely on its own initiative and with no interaction between VTB and the agency's analysts.
« The ratings process employed by Fitch Ratings is less comprehensive than that of other major international ratings agencies. Moreover, Fitch's Russia team has acted unprofessionally in assigning ratings to VTB Group companies based on unrealistic assumptions, and this has been acknowledged by a number of leading research teams in Russia. As a result, we have taken the logical step of ceasing all interaction between VTB Group and Fitch Ratings. »
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