BUYING A SMALL chain of internet cafés might not seem the most obvious way to boost the capitalization of your second-tier clients, but this is the route that Russian brokerage firm Antanta Capital has taken.
In September it paid an undisclosed amount for two Netcity outlets in central Moscow. It has since revealed plans to turn the cafés into centres for share trading, hoping to entice passers-by in to browse the prices of some of the country’s lesser-known stocks, all while sipping a cappuccino.
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