The third-largest lender in Singapore, United Overseas Bank said that he had bought 456 million shares of Chinese Evergrowing Bank for 1.37 billion yuan ($ 202 million). It should be noted that the transaction occurred in a private placement of shares of Chinese banks.
Savings Bank of Russia June 8, 2010 officially declared that he wanted to buy in Ukraine’s financial structure of the top ten. The day before on the financial market rumors that the Russians may be sold to Raiffeisen Bank Aval, which ranked fourth in assets and is valued by analysts at $ 2 billion.
Against the backdrop of recent political events and global warming in the Russian-Ukrainian relations major banks in Russia are interested in expanding its subsidiaries in the Ukrainian market. The recent rumor about the intention of “Savings Bank” buy “Raiffeisen Bank Aval” has caused a major stir, but the press center of “Aval” refuted this information. In turn, management of “Savings Bank” does not deny the possibility of buying a bank in Ukraine, Director of Strategy of the Russian Savings Bank Dmitry Tarasov: “We are interested in objects for acquisitions of the top 10.”