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    Moody's and S&P Upgrade Freedom Holding Debt and Subsidiary Credit Ratings

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    Moody's and S&P Upgrade Freedom Holding Debt and Subsidiary Credit Ratings

    Direct answer

    Freedom Holding Corp. received simultaneous credit rating positive actions from S&P Global and Moody's Investors Service. Moody's assigned an investment-grade Baa3 rating to subsidiary Freedom Life, marking the group's first investment-grade credit milestone, alongside a Ba1 rating for Freedom Insurance. S&P Global revised its rating outlook to positive for the parent company and four core operating units while lifting Kazakhstan national-scale ratings.

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    Market Ontology
    Evidence through
    2026-09-05
    Published
    2026-10-20
    Revision
    1 · 2026-10-20

    Cite as: Market Ontology, “Moody's and S&P Upgrade Freedom Holding Debt and Subsidiary Credit Ratings”, revision 1, evidence through 2026-09-05. https://marketontology.com/market-events/2026-09-05/moody-s-and-s-p-upgrade-freedom-holding-debt-and-subsidiary-credit-ratings-6d3132

    CREDIT
    Moody's and S&P Upgrade Freedom Holding Debt and Subsidiary Credit Ratings
    Freedom Holding Corp. received simultaneous credit rating positive actions from S&P Global and Moody's Investors Service. Moody's assigned an investment-grade Baa3 rating to subsidiary Freedom Life, marking the group's first investment-grade credit milestone, alongside a Ba1 rating for Freedom Insurance. S&P Global revised its rating outlook to positive for the parent company and four core operating units while lifting Kazakhstan national-scale ratings.
    FRHC
    Impact
    73
    SEP 5
    SIG
    88%
    FRHC
    Moody's and S&P Upgrade Freedom Holding Debt and Subsidiary Credit Ratings
    Freedom Holding Corp. received simultaneous credit rating positive actions from S&P Global and Moody's Investors Service. Moody's assigned an investment-grade Baa3 rating to subsidiary Freedom Life, marking the group's first investment-grade credit milestone, alongside a Ba1 rating for Freedom Insurance. S&P Global revised its rating outlook to positive for the parent company and four core operating units while lifting Kazakhstan national-scale ratings.
    → First-time investment-grade rating at Freedom Life reduces institutional funding costs and lowers risk premiums across FRHC debt structures.
    Impact
    Freedom Holding Corp. received simultaneous credit rating positive actions from S&P Global and Moody's Investors Service. Moody's assigned an investment-grade Baa3 rating to subsidiary Freedom Life, marking the group's first investment-grade credit milestone, alongside a Ba1 rating for Freedom Insurance. S&P Global revised its rating outlook to positive for the parent company and four core operating units while lifting Kazakhstan national-scale ratings.
    Affected
    FRHC
    Transmission
    First-time investment-grade rating at Freedom Life reduces institutional funding costs and lowers risk premiums across FRHC debt structures.

    How this development reaches the affected companies

    AssetExposure and channelDirectionEvidence
    FRHCcost-of-capital compression via investment-grade subsidiary ratingUp1-4wMoody's assigned Baa3 investment grade to Freedom Life; S&P revised outlook to positive.

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