On Sept. 9, 2013, Unione di Banche Italiane (UBI Banca) offered to buy back its €300 million callable step-up floating rate subordinated notes, and on Oct. 30 it converted the amount that hadn't been bought back into senior unsecured debt through a change in the notes' terms and conditions. We understand the remaining amount of the notes after the buy-back was completed ranks pari passu with the bank's other senior unsecured debt instruments. We are therefore correcting by raising our rating on these notes to 'BBB-' from 'BB+' and removing the "under criteria observation" (UCO) identifier from the rating. MILAN (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 24, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today it has corrected by raising to 'BBB-' from