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            <title> With UkrSibbank Visa Card to FIFA 2010 World Cup</title>
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            <description>Paying for goods and services for the amount of UAH 100 and more by Visa card UkrSibbank clients can win instant presents for fervent football fans: T-shirts, bags, umbrellas, and take part in the drawing of three Sony LCD-TV sets and the main prize — a two-person trip to the South African Republic to FIFA 2010 World Cup.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Credit cards</category>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>Vnesheconombank Supervisory Board Approves Subordinated Loan to Alfa-Bank</title>
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            <description>The loan matures in December 2020 and the interest rate is set at 9.5% per annum, with the proceeds of which used in the calculation of Alfa-Bank's equity.</description>            <author></author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:27:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>BSGV and SUBARU have launched Subaru Finance joint car loan program</title>
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            <description>Interest crediting rates for purchasing Subaru cars are 15% per annum in rubles if down payment is not less than 40% of car value and 16% in rubles per annum if down payment is not less than 20%. It is also possible to take a USD or EUR loan under 12% per annum.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Auto loans</category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK is introducing a service for cashless payment at ATMs of the Bank for visas</title>
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            <description>ORGRESBANK is putting in place a service for the card-holders of Visa and MasterCard, enabling payment on a cashless basis via our ATMs for consular charges related to obtaining.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Credit cards</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK has been issued with new articles of association and new license</title>
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            <description>Bank has received from the Main Department of Russian Central Bank in Moscow its amended Articles of Association and the General banking license, where the Bank is under the new name of Open Joint Stock Company Nordea Bank.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK is among the arrangers of a syndicated loan for Lukoil OJSC </title>
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            <description>The loan of US$1.2 billion has maturity of 3 years and at an interest rate of LIBOR +4% per annum. As the security is an assignment of receivables under oil export contracts.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>TransCreditBank ranked high among Russian banks in the first half of 2009</title>
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            <description>According to reputable rating agencies &quot;RBC. Rating&quot; and &quot;Profile&quot; magazine (# 31 dated 31.08.2009) TransCreditBank strengthened its positions in the ratings and rankings of Russian banks in the first two quarters of 2009.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Bank's Ratings</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:27:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>TransCreditBank arranged AHML's bonds </title>
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            <description>AHML placed its documentary non-convertible coupon bearer state-guaranteed series A12-A15 bonds totaling 28 billion rubles on MICEX Stock Exchange. The placement was made through the collection of applications to purchase bonds at a fixed price and the rate of the first coupon.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Investing</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:27:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>Take part in VISA and FIFA's campaign &quot;Sign up for your love to football!&quot;</title>
            <link>http://www.russiabankingnews.com/cards/4700.html</link>
            <description>BSGV invites the clients – Visa Electron / Classic / Gold cardholders – to take part in the campaign &quot;Sign up for your love to football!&quot;, organized by Visa payment system and FIFA. </description>            <author></author>
            <category>Credit cards</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank is among the most profitable and efficient banks</title>
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            <description>According to RBC rating &quot;The most profitable and efficient banks in the I half of 2009&quot; Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank is among top-60 of leading banks on the balance sheet profit. Analysts of RBC rating investigated 500 Russian banks.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Bank's Ratings</category>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK and YIT Concern are embarking on cooperation in the field of mortgage lending</title>
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            <description>The mortgage loans under this program have maturity of up to 30 years and the rates ranging from 9% to 13% per annum in EUR/USD and from 16% to 20% in RUB per annum.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Home mortgage</category>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>Bank of Russia became a member of Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems</title>
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            <description>One of the Bank of Russia's strategic task in crisis environment and active globalization processes in the payment and settlement systems area is to create conditions for continuity improvement as well as effectiveness of the national payment system and to optimize its interaction with international systems, including cross-border and multicurrency operations.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>Attention please: on August 22, technical re-equipment will be held in Sovetskoe branch in St Petersburg </title>
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            <description>We would like to inform you that due to technical re-equipment, on Saturday, August 22, Sovetskoe branch (17A, Sovetskaya str.) will not serve clients.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>To the attention of BSGV's Kaluzhskoe branch clients</title>
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            <description>The working schedule of Kaluzhskoe branch (Moscow): starting from August 22 the branch will serve clients on week days only, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Personal loans</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>On a Meeting of the Russian Development Bank's Supervisory Board</title>
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            <description>The Russian Development Bank's Supervisory Board reconsidered the criteria for selecting partner banks for participating in the State Program of Providing Financial Support for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Investing</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>On Signing Agreements between Vnesheconombank, OJSC Sukhoi Company and CJSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft</title>
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            <description>Under the Agreement the parties intend to cooperate in raising funds to finance promising investment programs carried out by CJSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, expanding financing of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 program and in putting in place a competitive mechanism for financing sales of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft on domestic and foreign markets.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>On Agreement between Vnesheconombank and OJSC Ilyushin Finance Co.</title>
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            <description>The parties intend to cooperate in raising funds to finance OJSC IFC’s high-priority investment projects as well as to develop joint sales strategies for Russian-made aircraft, including AN-148-100B aircraft, on the Russian and foreign markets with the use of leasing and export financing mechanisms.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>On Signing Memorandum Between Vnesheconombank and Region-Avia Airline</title>
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            <description>The Memorandum aims to boost passenger air transportation in Russia. The Memorandum also provides for establishing a joint working party that would help to promote cooperation between the Bank and the Airline.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:26:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK provides 50 mln USD credit facility to SNOS JSC</title>
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            <description>Banking relations between ORGRESBANK and SNOS were established in May 2008. This has been the second facility signed with the Customer.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Operations</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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            <title>ORGRESBANK has introduced a remote banking service in the Orgres Online System</title>
            <link>http://www.russiabankingnews.com/technology/4689.html</link>
            <description>This service enables customers to manage their banking accounts in the real time mode, namely, to receive information on the current condition and flow of cash funds on their accounts, on the status and payment limit of their banking cards; to effect transfers in rubles and in foreign currency, including from their card accounts, to any accounts opened with the Bank and other credit institutions.</description>            <author></author>
            <category>Technology</category>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
            
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