Vnesheconombank and the International Bank for Economic Cooperation Agree to Cooperate
State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)’ and the International Bank for Economic Cooperation (IBEC) entered into an Agreement on Strategic Cooperation.
On behalf of Vnesheconombank the Agreement was signed by Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev and on behalf of IBEC – by Vladimir Bely and Board Member Egidiu Hentes.
The Agreement is designed to establish long-term cooperation in project and trade financing. The parties intend to focus on their joint participation in implementing foreign economic projects aimed at the state’s support for industrial exports including support for the export of Russian products and services to IBEC member countries.
Under the Agreement the parties are also to give high priority to their participation in implementing projects of national significance to be carried out on PPP principles including projects on the construction of infrastructure facilities as well as facilities designed to secure the functioning of special economic zones.
The parties also agreed to fund programs of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia and IBEC countries, participate jointly in investment funds as well as share business experience and information in various fields related to financial institutions activity.
The International Bank for Economic Co-operation was established in 1963 in Moscow. The Bank's member countries are: the Republic of Bulgaria, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Cuba, Mongolia, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, Romania, the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. In accordance with a decision of the Council of the IBEC the Bank's Balance Sheet has been kept in euros. The IBEC's authorized capital is 400 million euros. The Bank has a broad network of correspondent banks in the IBEC member countries as well as in other countries.
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Vnesheconombank and KfW Banking Group Continue their Work on Establishing an International Fund to Support Entrepreneurial Activity in Russia
Vnesheconombank and KfW Banking Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding on setting up a Joint Selection Panel on Selecting an Investment Manager for an International Fund to Support Entrepreneurial Activity in Russia. A signing ceremony was held in the city of Berlin on June 13 in the course of a meeting of the Russian-German Strategic Working Group on Cooperation in the Field of Economics and Finance.
On behalf of Vnesheconombank Group the Memorandum was signed by Deputy Chairman – Vnesheconombank Board Member Mikhail Kopeikin, on behalf of KfW Banking Group –Director of Department for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Cherifa Larabi.
The Memorandum lays down the procedure for forming the panel, its composition, criteria for selecting an investment manager, basic requirements for facilities to be funded worked out in line with the approved concept for establishing the said Fund.
The panel is to analyze and evaluate applications from applicants and submit its proposals to Vnesheconombank’s Board and corporate governance bodies of KfW Banking Group for selecting an investment manager.
Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of an International Fund to Support Entrepreneurial Activity was concluded between Vnesheconombank and KfW in the course of Russian-German summit interstate consultations in November of 2012. A decision to establish the Fund was approved by Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board in October of 2012.
Vnesheconombank and KfW intend to contribute 150 million US dollars each to the Fund. The Fund’s amount is expected to reach 900 million US dollars by 2016 through raising funds from other institutional investors.
“The Fund’s financial resources are to be used to fund development projects of medium-sized production enterprises on the territory of Russia for a period of more than 3 years, explained Mikhail Kopeikin. Projects will be funded both through extending direct long-term targeted credits and through extending subordinated loans to financing institutions. In the future direct long-term credits might be also extended to medium-sized enterprises and direct investments might be made in production facilities’ charter capital”.
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