Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The oligarchs have lost interest in his bank

Loud submitted in 2008, bank draft, Mikhail Prokhorov, "International Finance Club (IFC), which as a shareholder in 2009 joined a group of prominent businessmen, is now stagnating, writes on Wednesday, 25 May, Kommersant . The fact that the further development of the Bank, IFC in question, told the publication of several sources close to the bank and its owners. Interlocutor of Kommersant close to one of the shareholders of IFC, said that Mikhail Prokhorov "lost interest in the project of the club of oligarchs, the bank has ceased to be his favorite toy." Mikhail Prokhorov has not managed to convince partners to the bank of the necessity of further capital increase, as it negates the growth plans IFC, corroborated by other sources of the newspaper from former executives of the bank. One of the shareholders of IFC, who requested anonymity, told Kommersant that the plans for further investment in this project "is not neither he nor, as far as I know, the other shareholders of the bank." The two sides publications argue that the recent meeting of the Board of Directors of IFC, scheduled for last Thursday was not a majority of its members from among the entrepreneurs of shareholders, including Viktor Vekselberg and Alexander Abramov, Sergei Chemezov, his wife, Ekaterina Ignatova, and even himself, Mikhail Prokhorov (note that the IFC press is often called "oligarchs, the bank" because of the composition of its shareholders). Kommersant notes with reference to its sources, that the interest of shareholders of the bank decreased significantly after the withdrawal of the management team, headed by ex-predpravleniya Alexander Popov (who came after him from Rosbank). Exodus of managers from Bank, IFC began last fall. First in November, the IFC has left the financial director Anton Park, later retired chief lawyer Andrew Counties. In January, retired first deputy chairman Andrei Serebryakov, and then predpravleniya Alexander Popov. In February, ousting another of the top managers of the former team - Deputy Chairman IFC Zagrenchuka Alexander, who oversaw the corporate lending to the IFC. Currently, the post predpravleniya bank is also a native of Rosbank Oksana Lifar, who previously oversaw the direction of the IFC VIP banking.

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