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Update: Rating agencies rate ILFC’s term loan

10 February 2012

Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) have rated International Lease Finance Corporation’s (ILFC) $900 million secured loan.

Read more: International Lease Finance Corporation’s (ILFC) 900 million senior secured loan Moody's Standard&Poor's (S&P) term loan Flying Fortress Bank of America Merrill Lynch Deutsche Bank

International Lease Finance Corporation’s (ILFC) $900 million senior secured loan has been assigned ratings by two credit rating agencies. The loan will mature in 2017 and will be secured by a pool of older aircraft and leases.

Moody’s has assigned a Ba3 rating to the term loan. The assigned rating is one notch above ILFC’s B1 corporate family rating because the loan is secured.

In a report, Moody's says the new secured loan will be issued by Flying Fortress, an ILFC subsidiary.

“Because the term loans do not include a direct pledge of aircraft, Moody’s believes...



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