VTB CHIEF EXECUTIVE Andrei Kostin is trying to juggle priorities. First among these is the bank’s initial public offering, slated for May, when it hopes to raise about $4 billion through a dual London/Moscow listing.
At the same time, he is on the lookout for domestic investment banking assets to acquire, to complete what he sees as the final piece in the jigsaw puzzle of VTB’s activities, after several years of extensive acquisitions.
Prominent among these was VTB’s enforced acquisition of Guta Bank during a banking sector liquidity crunch in 2004 and its transformation into VTB24, the bank’s retail arm.
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