Bank loans and ratings

Mechel PAO (MOEX: MTLR; NYSE: MTL) reports about signing agreement with Vnesheconombank on a loan to Elgaugol OOO for a total of up to 190 million US dollars in order to refinance its obligations to Vnesheconombank.

By the result of August, more than 44% of KIA car retail sales were made on credit by using products developed by KIA Finance together with partner banks and partner insurance companies.

The bulk of issued loans still falls on the purchase of the Mitsubishi Outlander model. The loan share in sales of Mitsubishi Outlander was 40%, Mitsubishi Pajero Sport - 34%.

Sberbank has integrated biometric technology into its Thank You from Sberbank bonus programme.

PJSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: MOEX, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces that it has been informed by Moody’s Investors Services Ltd, that the agency has raised RusHydro's long-term credit rating on international scale to the level of Russia’s sovereign rating (Ba1 outlook/stable).

Sanofi announced today that the European ratings agency Scope Ratings AG (“Scope”) assigned the company a AA long term rating and a S-1+ short-term rating. The outlook is stable

Over seven months of 2017, Sberbank has provided 1.017 tln roubles in retail loans. This amount can be divided almost equally into mortgage and consumer lending – 47% and 48% respectively.

Sberbank CIB, the corporate and investment banking business of Sberbank, has opened a four-year credit line worth 10 billion roubles for JSC Leasing Company Europlan.

Belarusian banks install IBA Group’s currency exchange terminals with coin hopper

To help parents prepare for new school season Ukrsotsbank and Alfa-Bank Ukraine offer cash loans for school shopping at a special discount up to 22%.

The group will use these funds to develop its business.

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) today announced results for the second quarter of 2017 and provided its current outlook for full year 2017

Setelem Bank was the first bank to issue loans in the framework of new state programs to support the car industry.

RAEX (Expert RA) credit rating agency assigned PJSC Tatneft a nonfinancial company creditworthiness rating of ruAAA. The outlook for the rating is stable.