Banks make uneasy investors, especially in their own corporate clients. That applies to Russia’s VTB. It holds nearly 22 per cent of EN+, the aluminium and power group. VTB agreed in January to take a stake from the group’s oligarch founder, Oleg Deripaska, in a deal to remove economic sanctions from the US government. On Monday, the Financial Times reported that VTB may have found Chinese buyers for part of the stake. VTB will also want to be shot of EN+ shares given the slowdown in global industrial production.
銀行常常是不安的投資者,尤其是對其企業客戶的投資。這一點適用於俄羅斯外貿銀行(VTB)。該行持有鋁業及電力集團EN+近22%的股份。今年1月,VTB同意從該集團的寡頭創辦人奧列格•德里帕斯卡(Oleg Deripaska)手中收購該集團部分股權,以解除美國政府的經濟制裁。週一,英國《金融時報》報導稱,VTB可能已經爲一部分股份找到中國買家。考慮到全球工業產出放緩,VTB也會希望出手EN+的股份。