Polyus Gold may agree next week to return gold assets in Kazakhstan to the Assaubayev family and retain the London-listed KazakhGold Group entity that the mining company has sought to use to attract more investors, Interfax reported Thursday. (Bloomberg)
The Deposit Insurance Agency’s total insurance fund, including bank contributions, will be 142 billion rubles at the end of 2010, the agency’s director, Alexander Turbanov, said Thursday. (Interfax)
Merrill Lynch signed an agreement with the Federal Property Management Agency on managing the sale of 10 percent of VTB Group, the agency said Thursday. (Bloomberg)
Sberbank said Thursday that it signed an agreement with American Express to start issuing the U.S. company’s credit cards denominated in dollars, euros or rubles “early in 2011.” (Bloomberg)
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