VTB signs largest ever CEE bank loan with $3.13bn deal despite exposure concerns

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VTB signs largest ever CEE bank loan with $3.13bn deal despite exposure concerns

Russian financial institution VTB this week signed its record-breaking $3.13bn three year unsecured loan, the largest ever for a bank in central and eastern Europe. The successful completion showed that lender appetite was strong enough to ignore concerns about the borrower’s potential exposure to $8bn of bad real estate loans at Bank of Moscow.

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