The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development bought 15 percent of Kazakhstan's largest bank, Kazkommertsbank (KKGB.KZ) on Friday, and the bank said it was looking to list on the New York Stock Exchange
Published:
7 June 2003 y., Saturday
The deal, worth $30.6 million and signed by EBRD President Jean Lemierre with Kazkommertsbank chairman Nurzhan Subkhanberdin, is the EBRD's first direct investment into Kazakhstan's banking sector.
Kazkommerts said in a statement it was the EBRD's first purchase of voting shares in any bank in the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose collection of 12 ex-Soviet republics.
Kazakhstan, a vast former Soviet Central Asian state five times the size of France but with a population of just 15 million, has the most successful economy in the region, and the most advanced banking sector.
"This country has a very good banking sector," Lemierre said at the signing ceremony. "If we are now a shareholder in Kazkommertsbank it's because we trust with full confidence the management of the bank."
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