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BTA to complete restructuring talks by August
July 9, 2009 (SRI)
BTA Bank’s restructuring talks with its creditors should be completed by August, the central bank chairman Grigoriy Marchenko said today dismissing the recent departure of Goldman Sachs as the banks advisor as having no impact.
BTA is working on restructuring $15 billion in foreign debt.
Marchenko also reportedly lashed out against foreign creditors who lent money to BTA, Alliance Bank and Astana Finance assuming that the Kazakh government would bail out the banks. He said they were paying a price for being “driven by greed,” Bloomberg reported.
“These are people who thought that the state will pay for it all,” Bloomberg reported Marchenko as saying. “This attitude was wrong and creditors must now pay for it by offering significant discounts for the debt.”
Alliance Bank announced its restructuring plan on Wednesday asking the creditors to accept significant haircuts on their debt.
Former BTA executive arrested in Moscow
July 8, 2009 (SRI) -
Former head of corporate banking at BTA Bank, Veronika Yefimova, has been arrested in Moscow.
Kazakhstan had issues an international warrant on Yefimova who was wanted in Kazakhstan for allegedly embezzling $1.34 million in 2006-08. Yefimova is reportedly expected to be extradited to Kazakhstan shortly.
July 9, 2009 (SRI)
BTA Bank’s restructuring talks with its creditors should be completed by August, the central bank chairman Grigoriy Marchenko said today dismissing the recent departure of Goldman Sachs as the banks advisor as having no impact.
BTA is working on restructuring $15 billion in foreign debt.
Marchenko also reportedly lashed out against foreign creditors who lent money to BTA, Alliance Bank and Astana Finance assuming that the Kazakh government would bail out the banks. He said they were paying a price for being “driven by greed,” Bloomberg reported.
“These are people who thought that the state will pay for it all,” Bloomberg reported Marchenko as saying. “This attitude was wrong and creditors must now pay for it by offering significant discounts for the debt.”
Alliance Bank announced its restructuring plan on Wednesday asking the creditors to accept significant haircuts on their debt.
Former BTA executive arrested in Moscow
July 8, 2009 (SRI) -
Former head of corporate banking at BTA Bank, Veronika Yefimova, has been arrested in Moscow.
Kazakhstan had issues an international warrant on Yefimova who was wanted in Kazakhstan for allegedly embezzling $1.34 million in 2006-08. Yefimova is reportedly expected to be extradited to Kazakhstan shortly.