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    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Russian business & finance
      Chinese lenders extend billions of dollars to Russian banks after western sanctions

      Beijing has pushed renminbi as alternative global currency to dollar

      An ICBC branch
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Raiffeisen Bank boosts pay for Russian staff by €200mn

      Bumper increase in past six months doubles staff costs for largest western lender still operating in country

      Raiffeisen Bank building in Vienna, Austria
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Raiffeisen in talks over sale of Russian banking arm

      Austrian lender has come under growing pressure from regulators over status of its business in Russia

      A Raiffeisen sign
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Sberbank
      Raiffeisen seeks to swap €400mn with Sberbank in ‘financial prisoner exchange’

      Austrian lender in talks with Kremlin-owned bank in an attempt to reduce exposure to Russia

      The logo of Raiffeisen Bank on top of a building behind a fragment of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow
    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      How Austria’s Raiffeisen got stuck in Russia — while making record profits

      Bank is one of many western companies struggling to exit after Putin’s intervention

      A sign advertising Raiffeisen Bank is seen behind a monument to Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Moscow
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      Lex
      Raiffeisen/Russia: fewer links with the west leave remaining ones exposed Premium content

      A fire sale of the bank’s shares would do investors little good

      A sign advertising Raiffeisen Bank behind figures of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution participants in Moscow, Russia
    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
      Lex
      Raiffeisen Bank: Russian exposure means the only options are bad ones Premium content

      Full withdrawal would sever one of the lender’s most consistently profitable units

      Exterior of Raiffeisen bank
    • Friday, 18 March, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Banks and Russia: there is no easy way out

      Western executives have limited ways to exit: sell up, wind down or pass the business to the state

      Frédéric Oudéa, SocGen chief executive, UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel and Johann Strobl, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International
    • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
      Raiffeisen considers Russia exit just weeks after committing to stay

      Austrian bank generates a third of its profits in the country and has 4.2mn customers and 9,400 staff there

      A Russian police officer stands in front of a branch of Raiffeisen Bank in Moscow, Russia
    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      Raiffeisen chief commits to Russia but suspends dividend

      CEO says bank has €473mn of exposure to sanctioned financial institutions and other sanctioned companies

      A branch of Raiffeisen Bank in Moscow
    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Lex
      Ukraine/Raiffeisen: proxy stock for a proxy conflict bears quiet sanction Premium content

      Austrian bank’s exposure to Russia means good profits and low debt levels but steep political risks

      A woman walks past a branch of Raiffeisen bank in Bucharest
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      ECB warns European lenders on Russia sanctions risk

      Central bank takes action as US threatens ‘massive consequences’ if Moscow invades Ukraine

      An employee holds 1,000 roubles notes at Goznak printing factory in Moscow
    • Monday, 28 January, 2019
      Lippo Group
      Indonesian bankruptcy case against Lippo spooks investors

      Carefully managed insolvency process excludes foreign lender

      A man walks out from from the Looshaus buidling of Austrian bank Raiffeisenbank in Vienna, on April 8, 2013. Austria should maintain its banking secrecy, Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger said Monday as a debate raged over whether such a measure could still be justified after Luxembourg revealied that it was prepared to soften its position. Spindelegger insisted that "Austria is not a tax haven," and that retaining the controversial principle of banking secrecy did not make it one. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN / AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN
    • Friday, 14 December, 2018
      BNP Paribas SA
      BNP’s Polish arm to cut 2200 jobs
    • Friday, 7 December, 2018
      Indonesia
      Indonesian dynasties sue foreign banks and investors

      Goldman and Raiffeisen mired in lawsuits with former clients

      FILE PHOTO: The logo of Raiffeisen Bank International is seen at a branch office in Vienna, Austria March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD - SEARCH GLOBAL BUSINESS 15 MAY FOR ALL IMAGES
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2017
      European companies
      Poland warns Raiffeisen Polbank to stick to IPO deadline

      Regulator says it could take action against lender if unit not listed by mid-May

      Workers are suspended as they assemble letters of the Raiffeisen Polbank's bank logo on their new building in Warsaw, Poland October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo - D1BETNBDABAA
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2016
      LexEuropean companies
      Raiffeisen: Viennese rollover

      A case of the parent telling the child that it’s gotta be just like them

      RAIFFEISEN BANK IN SARAJEVO...FEH05 - 8/25/2008- SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA;The Logo of Raiffeissen Bank in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday 25 August 2008. EPA/ FEHIM DEMIR  EPA/FEHIM DEMIR
    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2016
      fastFTHenry Foy
      Unicredit to sell up to 10% of Poland’s Bank Pekao
    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2016
      World
      Raiffeisen Bank returns to profit in 2015
    • Wednesday, 16 March, 2016
      European banks
      Fast Europe Open: Budget and Fed Day
    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2015
      Special ReportDoing Business in Austria
      Austrian banks have ridden a rollercoaster in recent years

      Austria’s economy is among Europe’s most stable. Life as a banker is not quite the same

    • Wednesday, 26 August, 2015
      Banks
      Sberbank: one steppe at a time

      Lender’s results will confound the bears on Russia

      A Russian ruble coin is pictured in front of St. Basil cathedral in central Moscow AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 19 August, 2015
      LexBanks
      Raiffeisen and Erste: resilient Austrians

      Can the two banks reinvigorate their revenue to keep amassing capital?

      The Raiffeisen logo is pictured at a regional branch office in Bockfliess, Austria
    • Wednesday, 19 August, 2015
      European companies
      Raiffeisen shares bolstered 8% by success of capital ratios drive

      Austrian lender has restructured, cut costs and targeted reduced exposure to Russia and Ukraine

      A pedestrian shelters from the snow beneath an umbrella as she passes a Raiffeisen bank branch, operated by Raiffeisen Bank International AG, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Raiffeissen Bank, eastern Europe's second-biggest lender, is curbing its Russian business and selling its Polish unit after turmoil in Ukraine caused its first-ever loss and marred prospects for the coming years. Photographer: Lisi Niesner/Bloomberg
    • Monday, 6 July, 2015
      European companies
      EBRD in talks to buy minority stake in Ukraine bank

      Investment in Raiffeisen unit intended to boost SME lending and boost market confidence

      A pedestrian shelters from the snow beneath an umbrella as she passes a Raiffeisen bank branch, operated by Raiffeisen Bank International AG, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Raiffeissen Bank, eastern Europe's second-biggest lender, is curbing its Russian business and selling its Polish unit after turmoil in Ukraine caused its first-ever loss and marred prospects for the coming years. Photographer: Lisi Niesner/Bloomberg
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