Financial leasing

Sberbank and SME Bank have increased the volume of financing to provide affordable loans to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Mastercard today announced that Masterpass will be live in the coming weeks at Costco.ca for Canadian shoppers.

 

BNY Mellon was recently honored by International House New York with the Rockefeller Award for Distinguished Philanthropic Service.

Aviva Ventures, Aviva plc’s venture capital arm, today announces its investment in Owlstone Medical Ltd, a medical diagnostics company developing a breathalyser that can detect diseases at a very early stage.

Sberbank would like to announce that the Supervisory Board of the bank will hold its meeting in the Central Office of Sberbank on March 21, 2017.

The EIB is making EUR 350 million available for investment by small and medium-sized enterprises in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. For businesses in these countries the EIB’s involvement means that they benefit from a lower interest rate.

The European Commission, on behalf of the EU, has today adopted the decision to release the second tranche of Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, a loan which amounts to €600 million.

The EIB granted new loans worth EUR 530m and the European Investment Fund (EIF – together with EIB forming the EIB Group) implemented operations in Croatia amounting to EUR 16m in 2016. 

Today, the European Commission signed new support to the Kyrgyz Republic. The focus of this support is to strengthen the rule of law (€13 million), as well as rural development (€10 million) in the country.

ADB signed today a $75 million loan with Everbright Financial Leasing (EFL) to put more low-emission buses on city roads in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). 

On 14 December 2016 ALROSA repaid a $370 mln bank loan to JSC UniCredit Bank received in April 2014. The bank loan was repaid with cash from operations, thus reducing debt down to $2.3 bn.

Sberbank today announces the signing of a $100 mln seven-year venture loan agreement for Gett (formerly GetTaxi), a rapidly-growing global on-demand mobility company with a presence in Russia, the US, UK and Israel.