/KASE, February 23, 2022/ – Subsidiary Bank "Home Credit and Finance Bank" (Almaty), whose bonds are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has informed KASE about the following:

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As of February 21, 2022, the Fitch rating agency affirmed the following credit ratings of the Bank:

The long-term Issuer Default Rating (hereinafter – IDR) has been affirmed at "BB-" with a "Stable" outlook.

Short-term IDR has been affirmed at "B".

Long-term local currency IDR has been affirmed at "BB-", outlook "Stable".

National Long-term rating has been affirmed at "A-(kaz)", outlook "Stable".

The support rating was withdrawn due to the implementation of Fitch's new methodology of Bank Rating Criteria dated November 12, 2021; according to the new methodology, the bank was assigned a Shareholder support rating of bb-.

Viability rating has been affirmed at b+.

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