RUSSIA LEASING

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FOURTH mining equipment leasing package for Russia has been signed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This latest agreement will help Japan's Sumitomo group expand its supplies in Siberia and the Russian far east, through a US$45 million leasing framework, with the bank bearing one third of the risk. The facility is targeted at medium-sized companies, notably those mining gold.



Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.