The offer failed to beat oil company Rosneft’s $10.7 billion IPO, issued last year and the biggest ever Russian equity issue. Sberbank needs to raise the money to support a lending boom. Sberbank is seen as a proxy for the Russian economy and is the only liquid banking stock in the Russian market.
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