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Raiffeisen Bank International AG

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Raiffeisen halts sale of Russia unit amid US thaw

    Austrian bank has faced pressure to quit, but exit has been complicated by court process

    A worker pushes a cart past the entrance of a Raiffeisen Bank branch in Moscow, Russia
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    Raiffeisen liable for €2bn charge after ruling from Russian court

    Austrian lender to appeal against damages awarded to a company once owned by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska

    Raiffeisen bank office in Moscow
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    Court puts block on sale of Raiffeisen bank’s Russian arm

    Temporary injunction by Kaliningrad judge freezes share transfers and thwarts Austrian lender’s efforts to exit country

    A Raiffeisen advertising sign is taken down in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Raiffeisen warns over capital hit from attempted Russia exit

    Austrian lender generated more than half of its profits in Russia and Belarus in the first six months of the year

    Workers use a crane to dismantle a signboard advertising Raiffeisen Bank from a building in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    US Treasury threatens Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank over Russia unit

    Bank ditched asset-swap plan connected to oligarch Oleg Deripaska after letter warning of potential secondary sanctions

    People walk outside a Raiffeisen outlet in Moscow, Russia
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Oleg Deripaska
    US imposes sanctions on entities involved in Raiffeisen’s aborted Deripaska deal

    The parties had conducted an ‘attempted sanctions evasion scheme’ connected to the Russian oligarch, Washington says

    Oleg Deripaska at an event in St Petersburg in 2021
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    Raiffeisen has been a rogue operator in Russia for too long

    Austrian bank continues to make big profits in the country after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

    A signboard advertising Raiffeisen Bank is seen behind a monument to Vladimir Lenin in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Austria’s Raiffeisen scraps Oleg Deripaska asset swap deal

    Western lender with largest operations in Russia decides to ‘walk away’ from deal after pressure from regulators

    People walking in front of a Raiffeisen bank in Moscow
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Raiffeisen warns ECB plans could derail plan to sell Russian arm

    Bank has reduced Russian loan book but profits and headcount have increased since full-scale Ukraine invasion

    A Raiffeisen Bank branch
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Oops, Princeton bet on private equity Premium content

    Plus, Raiffeisen Bank touts Russian growth in job ads and an investment banking boost in the US

    The DD logo
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Western business, the Kremlin and the war
    Raiffeisen Bank trumpets Russia growth plans in dozens of job ads

    Austrian lender, which has pledged to exit Russia, orders internal probe following FT findings

    Montage featuring a Raiffeisen job advert in Russia, the bank’s logo, Vladimir Putin and the domes of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Raiffeisen pulls AT1 bond deal over Russia deal fears

    Shares in Austrian bank fall 8.7% on concerns over Deripaska asset swap deal

    Raiffeisen branch in Podolsk, Russia
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Lex
    Raiffeisen: sanctions police must give Deripaska deal forensic scrutiny Premium content

    Continued ownership of unit has made the Austrian bank a symbol of western accommodation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia

    Raiffeisen Bank logo on top of a building, behind two statues in Moscow, Russia
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Raiffeisen and Oleg Deripaska skirt Russia sanctions with €1.5bn deal

    Asset swap will hand oligarch cash in exchange for his stake in Austria’s Strabag construction firm

    Oleg Deripaska
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Raiffeisen generated almost half its profits this year from Russia

    Operations in the country remain central to bank even as it scales back its lending

    The logo of Raiffeisen Bank on top of a building behind a huge monument to Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, Russia
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Chinese lenders extend billions of dollars to Russian banks after western sanctions

    Beijing has pushed renminbi as alternative global currency to dollar

    An ICBC branch
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Raiffeisen Bank boosts pay for Russian staff by €200mn

    Bumper increase in past six months doubles staff costs for largest western lender still operating in country

    Raiffeisen Bank building in Vienna, Austria
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    Raiffeisen in talks over sale of Russian banking arm

    Austrian lender has come under growing pressure from regulators over status of its business in Russia

    A Raiffeisen sign
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Sberbank
    Raiffeisen seeks to swap €400mn with Sberbank in ‘financial prisoner exchange’

    Austrian lender in talks with Kremlin-owned bank in an attempt to reduce exposure to Russia

    The logo of Raiffeisen Bank on top of a building behind a fragment of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow
  • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    How Austria’s Raiffeisen got stuck in Russia — while making record profits

    Bank is one of many western companies struggling to exit after Putin’s intervention

    A sign advertising Raiffeisen Bank is seen behind a monument to Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Moscow
  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    Lex
    Raiffeisen/Russia: fewer links with the west leave remaining ones exposed Premium content

    A fire sale of the bank’s shares would do investors little good

    A sign advertising Raiffeisen Bank behind figures of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution participants in Moscow, Russia
  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Lex
    Raiffeisen Bank: Russian exposure means the only options are bad ones Premium content

    Full withdrawal would sever one of the lender’s most consistently profitable units

    Exterior of Raiffeisen bank
  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Banks and Russia: there is no easy way out

    Western executives have limited ways to exit: sell up, wind down or pass the business to the state

    Frédéric Oudéa, SocGen chief executive, UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel and Johann Strobl, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International
  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    Raiffeisen considers Russia exit just weeks after committing to stay

    Austrian bank generates a third of its profits in the country and has 4.2mn customers and 9,400 staff there

    A Russian police officer stands in front of a branch of Raiffeisen Bank in Moscow, Russia
  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    Raiffeisen chief commits to Russia but suspends dividend

    CEO says bank has €473mn of exposure to sanctioned financial institutions and other sanctioned companies

    A branch of Raiffeisen Bank in Moscow
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