On March 3, Vnesheconombank’s traditional 2007 Ice Matches Sports Facilities were held in the Krylatsky Palace of Sports. This year about 3.5 thousand people attended the sports festivities. In his address Vnesheconombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev greeted guests and competitors.
“I am really happy that our invitation to participate in the sports festivities were taken up not only by our friends and partners from Sberbank (the Savings Bank) but also by Vneshtorgbank, Export-Import Bank (Roseximbank), the Russian Development Bank, the Kazakhstan Development Bank, our colleagues from Uzbekistan and executives from the China State Development Bank. This year, Vnesheconombank holds the presidency of the Interbank Association within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Today’s event gives us the chance to further promote cooperation. Besides, today’s event is one of the many moves designed to support Sochi’s bid to host the Winter Olympics,” he said.
Senior executives who participated in the consultations betweens SCO Interbank Association member banks in Moscow were among the guests at the sports festivities.
The highlight of the events was a Bandy Challenge Cup Tournament. There were two teams competing: Vnesheconombank and the Savings Bank of Russia (Sberbank). Sberbank’s team won the Tournament.
The climax of the sports festivities was “Dances with Stars” – pair figure skating of Vnesheconombank’s stars and figure skating world medallists Alexandr Zhulin and Anastasia Grebekina. Before the exhibition figure skating, the Bank’s employees were rigorously selected and they had to do hard training. There were three winners.
The 2007 Ice Matches proved to be a truly momentous event, they put all gusts and competitors in a cheerful and happy mood. The Bank’s employees and members of their families took an active part in sporting and entertaining contests, ice games, curling, figure skating, and skate slalom.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
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Consultations between representatives of partner banks incorporated in the Interbank Association within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were held in Moscow on March 1-2, 2007.
Vnesheconombank acted as an organizer of the meeting. In 2007, Vesheconombank holds the presidency8i of the SCO Interbank Association.
The participants in the meeting exchanged opinions on the strategy of the SCO Interbank Association and crucial issues of the Association’s day-to-day activity. In particular, they discussed draft regulations for cooperation between Interbank Association member banks in selecting, examining and implementing investment projects, as well as the issue of creating a mechanism for SCO guarantees and the issue of setting up an Interbank Association website. Special emphasis was placed on stepping up efforts to identify and start to implement top priority projects. “As a coordinator bank within the SCO Interbank Association, Vnesheconombank aims to get the Association to start carrying out specific projects in the year 2007,” said Vnesheconombank First Deputy Chairman Nikolai Nosov. “We hope that before the SCO summit we’ll be able to agree upon 1-3 projects to be submitted to the leaders of SCO member states as the first pilot projects to be financed on a multilateral basis.”
Vnesheconombank offered to exchange opinions on using SCO member states’ security markets to finance projects carried out by the SCO Interbank Association.
In the course of consultations there was a presentation of the Eurasian Development Bank. Interbank Association members noted that it was worthwhile to establish an effective cooperation and business ties with the Eurasian Development Bank and other leading financial institutions playing an active role in the SCO investment sector.
The Interbank Association of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established in October 26, 2005. It incorporates the Kazakhstan Development Bank, the China State Development Bank, the Settlement & Savings Company (Kyrgyzia), Vnesheconombank, the Tajikistan National Bank, and the Uzbekistan National Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
Contact person: Svetlana Nikitina
Phone: +7 (495) 208-46-93. Fax: +7 (495) 975-21-34
E-mail: press@veb.ru