MDM Bank has secured a brace of minority shareholders, with investment company Olivant and supranational agency International Finance Corporation coming on board in a move that MDM’s management hope will help propel it into the country’s banking top 10. MDM is Russia’s 15th-largest bank by assets. London-based Olivant is taking an initial 10% stake with an option to acquire a further 5% equity interest within six years. "We view the Russian banking sector in general and MDM bank in particular as a dynamic environment with considerable growth potential," says Olivant’s chairman, Luqman Arnold, who was already an MDM board member and chairs its strategy committee
For its part, the IFC, which is the private-sector arm of the World Bank, is set to take a 5%...
