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...State-owned Sberbank’s investment arm in 2018 sacked two senior analysts after they published a report saying Gazprom deliberately opted for unprofitable projects to secure lucrative contracts for companies...
...Big dividend payers like state-owned Sberbank, whose shares are up 67 per cent in the year to date, are “attractive to most Russians and now they’re some of the few investment options available”....
...Sberbank and VTB account for more than half of Russia’s banking market....
...State-owned Sberbank, Russia’s top lender, also announced on Thursday that it would not pay dividends for last year, prompting a 5 per cent fall in the company’s shares....
...Even so, London had continued to trade Russian names and the value of many stocks such as Sberbank and Gazprom have plummeted....
...“Sberbank being under sanctions creates big problems for Russian corporates getting credit.”...
...It did this in 2014, providing $5.8bn to prop up Sberbank during Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine. The central bank lent Sberbank twice that amount during the financial crisis....
...This proposed list does not name Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender by assets, nor Gazprombank, which is heavily involved in its energy sector, they said....
...VTB accounts for 16.4 per cent of Russia’s banking assets, compared with Sberbank’s 32.6 per cent....
...Executives of Sberbank were also targeted, while Russian officials accused of human rights violations will face visa restrictions....
...Former Arsenal shareholder Usmanov’s decision to sell VK also follows disagreements with state lender Sberbank over a $1.6bn joint venture that involved some of the companies under VK’s umbrella, the FT...
...It had suffered from concerns over what a golden share held by Sberbank, the Kremlin-controlled lender, could be used for....
...En+ said it would borrow up to $1.8bn from Sberbank to fund the buyout, with repayments starting in 2023....
...It was enough to see Gazprom briefly reclaim its crown last June as Russia’s most valuable company from Sberbank, the country’s biggest lender....
...MTS was not worried about competing for screen time with deeper-pocketed “ecosystems” run by state bank Sberbank and search group Yandex, he added: “Each customer will have more than one supplier [ . . ....
...This spike raised Gazprom’s market capitalisation to Rbs5.62tn, putting it ahead of Sberbank, the country’s top lender....
...Sberbank, the country’s biggest lender remains the biggest with a market capitalisation of Rbs4.92tn....
...Pochta Rossii made a record Rbs2.7bn profit last year, 350 per cent more than its 2017 total, according to its Russian accounts....
...Sberbank and VTB, Russia’s two largest state banks, are to create an airline focusing on flights to Russia’s underserved regions, VTB chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday....
...VTB and Gazprombank, the largest state banks after Sberbank, remain below some of those Basel III requirements....
...The declaration of insolvency came after a Kiev court in September ruled assets should be seized from the Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned Sberbank, VTB and VEB....
...Only its bigger rival Sberbank is consistently profitable without subsidies....
...In May this year, Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, published a highly critical report on Gazprom’s various pipeline projects. Its main conclusion: none of them makes commercial sense....
...Though the central bank said last month it would guarantee all dollar deposits held in Russian state banks, retail customers have withdrawn more than $1.1bn from Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, since the...
...Herman Gref, CEO of Sberbank, made a personal apology to Sechin, who is not a man one tends to fak with....
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