MOSCOW, March 2 – Following the agency’s downgrade of parent Commerzbank, Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook on the Ba1 long-term global scale local currency deposit rating of Forum Bank (FB) to negative from stable.

At the same time FB's bank financial strength rating of E+ (stable outlook), long-term global scale foreign currency deposit rating of B3 (stable outlook), its Not Prime short-term global scale local and foreign currency deposit ratings and National Scale Rating ("NSR") of Aa1.ua remained unchanged.