Assicurazioni Generali è pronta a investire nella seconda banca

Assicurazioni Generali è pronta a investire nella seconda banca russa. La notizia
delle trattative fra il gruppo di Trieste e l’istituto Vtb viene riportata dal Wall Street
Journal, dal Financial Times e dal Moscow Times. Secondo quanto riferiscono i
quotidiani esteri Generali potrebbe acquisire fino all'1% del pacchetto azionario
messo in vendita da Mosca, pari a 300 milioni di dollari.
Abstracts of the article
“Generali eyes stake in VTB”
Written by William Mauldin
On Wall Street Journal, February 8th 2011
“VTB's initial public offering in 2007 was the world's biggest during that year,
but the stock slumped shortly thereafter amid the financial crisis”
“The Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali SpA is interested in buying a stake in
Russia's VTB Group for about $300 million when the government sell part of its
stake in the lender this month, two people familiar with the matter said Monday. The
Russian state is selling 10% of the bank, valued at about $3.5 billion, as it seeks to
privatize chunks of state-controlled assets to raise funds to close a budget gap”. (…)
L’articolo è a disposizione a pagamento al seguente link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704422204576130040123868916.html
?KEYWORDS=generali
Abstracts of the article
“Generali Interested in Acquiring VTB Stake”
On Moscow Times, February 8th 2011
“The government is planning to sell a 10 percent stake in VTB initially”
“An overseas roadshow by VTB to raise some $3.6 billion got off to a solid start on
Monday, lining up Italy's Assicurazioni Generali as a key shareholder in Russia's
second-largest lender. Investors are closely watching the first step in Russia's $33
billion three-year privatization drive, deciding whether to invest in the country's
biggest state asset sale since the collapse of the Soviet Union”. (…)
L’articolo è a disposizione gratuitamente al seguente link
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/generali-interested-in-acquiring-vtbstake/430526.html
Abstracts of the article
“Generali eyes $300m VTB stake”
Written by Catherine Belton, Paul J Davies, Rachel Sanderson
On Financial Times, February 7th 2011
“Generali already has some business in Russia, insuring personal loans to consumers”
Generali, the Italian insurer, plans to buy up to $300m worth of shares in VTB and
become a cornerstone investor when the Russian state-controlled bank sells a 10 per
cent stake in a secondary offering this year. The prospectus for the share sale in the
bank, which has a market capitalisation of about $36bn, also revealed that TPG, the
US private equity firm, had committed to buy up to $100m of shares”. (…)
L’articolo è a disposizione gratuitamente al seguente link
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e1c88d88-32a8-11e0-b323-00144feabdc0.html