OREANDA-NEWS  On 17 February was announced, that Nadezhda Martynova, Deputy Chairman of the Board took part in the conference on SME lending organized by Association "Russia". In the course of the work, in particular, the most urgent problems of interaction between commercial banks and institutions for development were discussed. According to Nadezhda Martynova in 2009 RBD will continue implementation of the SME Lending Support Program through regional counter-party banks which was approved by the Supervisory Board of the State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)" within its Procedure for SME loan support.

Representatives from commercial banks of Moscow, the Krasnoyarsk Kray, the Republic of Udmurtiya, the Samara Oblast and other RF member entities took part in the conference.