NOMOS-Bank’s stake in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank reduced t o 7.79%

Nomos-Bank still intends to buy the state-owned 44% shareholding in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank, the bank’s Executive Director for International Business Yuri Lekarev said at a banking forum in London, RIA Novosti reports. The bank announced earlier than its share in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank would go down from 31.31% to 7.79% as part of the banking group’s internal restructuring program; the shares were handed over to Nomos-Bank’s two daughter enterprises. The group controls 51.29% of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s shares altogether. Now the privatization of the state-owned 44.2% shareholding in the bank

Nomos-Bank, which accumulated 51.3% of Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s shares in 2010, is considering buying out the remainder of the stock provided that the share price is appealing, the bank’s IPO memorandum states. ‘It’s possible that we will acquire the remainder of the shares in Khanty-Mansiysky Bank at a good price. Nomos-Bank is planning to buy the shareholding belonging to Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region-Yugra,’ the memorandum says. Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region-Yugra currently owns a 44.20% shareholding in the bank.

OAO Uralfinprombank got a brand new set of stockholders recently. The bank’s new proprietors are Natalya Pronina (17.08%), Vitaliy Kunitsin (16.47%), Rustem Kadyrov (15.62%), Alexander Dankov (17%), Svetlana Belova (14.91%), and Andrei Belov (18.92%), the company’s official report states. At the same time, members of the Supervisory Board Stanislav Shanaurin and Tamara Udelnova, who used to have 4.72% and 0.33% of shares, respectively, no longer have a share in the bank’s authorized capital. The same is true of BOD members Sergey Udelniy and Valeriy Metelskiy, whose shareholdings used to come

OAO Khanty-Mansiyskiy Bank recently got a new shareholder Karolton Associates Limited. The company now co-owns 11.33% of the bank’s shares. A little while earlier, OAO Nomos-Bank reported it had acquired a 19.98% shareholding in the bank. Nomos-Bank actually bought 100% of OOO IST Capital that owns 19.98% of Khanty-Mansiyskiy Bank’s shares. IST Capital is a member of Alexander Nesis’s IST Group, Nesis being one of Nomos-Bank’s major stockholders, the bank’s press officer explained. The acquisition of IST Capital was part of OAO Nomos-Bank shareholders’ bank assets consolidation campaign, the

The international rating agency first affirmed OAO Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s long-term B+ and short-term B credit ratings and then called them off upon the bank’s request. All of the organization’s liability ratings were recalled as well. ‘The affirmation of OAO Khanty-Mansiysky Bank’s ratings shows that Russia’s operating environment is still complicated and that the prospects of the bank’s upcoming going private are still uncertain. The bank’s strong ties with the administration of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, its good financial performance, improved liquidity, and the asset quality