OREANDA-NEWS. December 5, 2011. On 22-23 November the 8th Annual Syndicated Loans CEE Conference took place in Vienna, where SCM was represented by the Chief Financial Officer Margarita Povazhnaya.

The delegates discussed the issues of CEE capital market, Europe's currency crisis and its economic impact, project and infrastructure financing in the region as well as leveraged finance outlooks.

“Syndicated loans are becoming more important today for many Ukrainian companies, including SCM as our Group’s assets focus on production modernisation, creating new production facilities and improving safety and energy efficiency. This conference is an excellent platform for joint discussion of important issues, general trends and outlooks as well as for sharing experiences with our international peers,” commented Margarita Povazhnaya.

Profile:

SCM is a professional investor and the managing company of the leading financial and industrial group of Ukraine, focusing on mining and metals, power generation and distribution, finance as well as telecommunications, media, real estate, retail, clay production, petroleum products trade, agriculture, pharmaceuticals trade, heavy engineering and transportation.

The SCM Group comprises Metinvest and DTEK, First Ukrainian International Bank and Renaissance Capital Bank, ASKA and ASKA-Life insurance companies, Vega Telecommunications Group, Ukraina Media  Group and Segodnya Multimedia publishing holding, ESTA Holding (real estate), Ukrainskiy Retail  (retail), UMG (clay production), Parallel (petroleum products operator), HarvEast (agriculture), Ukrainian Pharmacy Holding, Mining Machines heavy engineering holding, Portinvest transportation holding and others.

Chief Executive Officer: Oleg Popov.

SCM is 100% owned by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov.