OREANDA-NEWS. October 07, 2010. VTB’s Supervisory Board approved the phased acquisition of 100% of TransCreditBank. By year end 2010, VTB plans to acquire the majority stake of TransCreditBank from Russian Railways and other minority shareholders. The acquisition includes TransCreditBank and all of its subsidiary businesses including leasing, factoring (JSC TransCreditFactoring) and investment businesses (TKB Capital), reported the press-centre of VTB.     

The Supervisory Board has set the purchase price equal to the ratio of no more than 2.2 of TransCreditBank's adjusted tier-one capital by the end of 2010.

VTB Group President and Chairman of the Management Board, Andrey Kostin, states, "The acquisition of TransCreditBank is in line with both VTB’s strategic plan to grow the Bank’s market share in Russia and Russian Railways’ objective to enhance the range of  banking services offered to the Russian railway sector".