At a regular meeting of Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board a decision was taken to add the procedure for Vnesheconombank’s implementation of measures provided for by clauses 4 and 6 of Federal Law dated October 13, 2008 № 173-FZ “On Additional Measures for Supporting the Financial System of the Russian Federation” with a requirement for a minimum amount of equity of no less than 3.5 billion rubles for banks to be able to obtain subordinated loans.
Moreover, requirements to borrower banks for lending to the real economy were made more stringent, now they are to secure for a period of one year from the date of obtaining a subordinated loan availability of credits in their loan portfolio to be extended to high-priority economic sectors in line with recommendations of the Russian Economic Development Ministry, with repayment periods of no less than one year at an effective rate not exceeding the Bank of Russia’s refinancing rate increased by three percentage points in the amount no less than the sum of obtained subordinated loan and they are also to maintain the volume of such credits until they repay a subordinated loan.
Vnesheconombank’s Management Board was ordered to hold talks with borrowers over their agreement with the said terms of obtaining subordinated loans.
Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board made a decision to extend subordinated loans to the following Russian lending institutions: CJSC JSCB NOVIKOMBANK in the amount of 478 719 000-00 rubles, OJSC JSCB ROSEVROBANK in the amount of 980 000 000-00 rubles, OJSC TransKreditBank in the amount of 2 930 000 000-00 rubles, OJSC Bank Saint-Petersburg in the amount of 1 466 000 000-00 rubles JSCB Transkapitalbank (CJSC) in the amount of 729 998 500-00 rubles, OJSC Pervobank in the amount of 725 000 000-00, OJSC SKB-bank in the amount of 810 000 000-00 rubles, OJSC Promsvyazbank in the amount of 4.000.000.000-00, OJSC Bank ZENIT in the amount of 2 140 000 000-00 rubles, CJSC Bank Russky Standard in the amount of 4 958 783 400-00.
The Supervisory Board also approved a decision on extending by Vnesheconombank a credit line with a limit of up to 10 billion rubles for a period of up to 15 years to the winner of the tender held by the Administration of Saint-Petersburg for the right to conclude an agreement on building, reconstructing and operating facilities incorporated in the assets of the Pulkovo airport on the basis of public private partnership.
The Supervisory Board also approved Vnesheconombank’s participation in financing the project to build a propylene manufacturing complex with a capacity of 500 thousand tons a year at Tobolsk-Polymer (LLC) (the Tyumen region) by way of opening credit lines for Tobolsk Polymer (LLC) for a period of up to 13.5 years.
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V.V Putin’s Opening Address
Good afternoon, Esteemed Colleagues!
Today we are holding our regular meeting of Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board. We are to discuss a wide range of issues relating to providing further support for the Russian financial system.
I’d like to remind you that last week we discussed at length the situation both in the banks themselves and the measures to increase lending to the real economy. A number of important decisions were made on improving the mechanism for extending state guarantees and on additional capitalization of banks.
I’d like to stress that the main goal of our efforts remains the same – it is to create the most favorable conditions for businessmen’s access to state funds and to make lending interest rates more acceptable for borrowers.
A key role in these efforts is delegated to Vnesheconombank. It should carry on performing its functions as a bank for development.
By the end of 2009, the amount of development credits extended by Vnesheconombank to the domestic economy will be in excess of 300 billion rubles.
High priority should be given to financing projects of national significance aimed at removing infrastructure restrictions and creating new jobs.
I’d like to ask you to focus on providing support for small and medium-sized enterprises. By the way, Russian state banks will commit 100 billion rubles for these purposes and VEB’s program is estimated at 30 billion rubles.
It’s very important to ensure that committed resources reach the real economy in full and are used extensively to support troubled enterprises. I hope that that the Bank will speed up its efforts to this end.
Under the difficult financial conditions we need to set stricter terms of extending credits. Up until now, Vnesheconombank has already extended credits to six commercial banks for a total amount of 257 billion rubles.
Today, Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board has considered 12 more applications worth more than 19 billion rubles. In this respect I would like to say that these funds will be made available under the new rules. This means that credits are to be extended for a period of no less than one year at the Central Bank’s interest refinancing rate plus three percentage points. So, it’s necessary to hold additional negotiations with banks and agree to operate on these terms.
Vnesheconombank would also continue to participate in implementing measures for the financial restructuring of Svyaz-Bank. In order to exercise control over the recovery and possible write-offs of Svyaz-Bank’s bad loans, which arose prior to last year’s October, I recommend to set up a special commission and incorporate representatives of law enforcement authorities into it. VEB’s Supervisory Board should exercise control over work performed.
Vnesheconombank’s issuance of foreign-currency denominated bonds would contribute to increased financing of the Russian economy. This step would make it possible to not only neutralize commercial banks’ excessive foreign currency liquidity but also commit raised funds to serve operations of domestic enterprises on foreign market for refinancing Central Bank funds raised earlier.
In the course of our meeting we are supposed to make a decision on issuing foreign currency denominated bonds for a total amount of 5 billion US dollars.
Today we’ll also analyze the Bank’s work on providing financing for Olympic facilities subject to decisions on providing these financial resources made earlier at the previous meeting of Vnesheconombank’s Supervisory Board.
In total, VEB has already provided financing for eight projects for the total amount of 63 billion rubles. These projects are the Sochi thermal power station, the Sochi Airport, the Port of Sochi Immertinsky, the main Olympic village, the Sochi Sea Port, the rubbish recycling complex in the city of Sochi.
Financing worth 1.8 billion rubles was already opened last week.
Let’s get down to work.
Origin: Internet-portal of the Government of the Russian Federation
Origin: Internet Portal of the Government of the Russian Federation
