OREANDA-NEWS. On July 11, 2007 Home Credit Group, the international consumer finance specialist, announced that Declan McSweeney will resume his position as the Chief Financial Officer of Home Credit Group and Member of the Board of Directors, Home Credit B.V. with effect from 1-st August, 2007, reported the press-centre of Home Credit Group.

Mr. McSweeney has most recently acted as an Executive Advisor to the Board of Directors of Home Credit B.V. He will resume his executive role in the Group after re-organizing his business commitments.

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Home Credit Group
The companies of the Home Credit Group have been operating in the Central and Eastern European as well as Central Asian consumer finance markets and had granted loans in the combined principal of USD 2,7 billion as of 2006 year end. Home Credit maintains a leading position in the consumer finance markets of the Czech Republic (entered in 1997), the Slovak Republic (1999), the Russian Federation (2002) and the Republic of Kazakhstan (since December of 2005). Home Credit Group also entered the Ukrainian and Belarusian market in 2006. The Home Credit Group belongs to the PPF international group of companies which has interests in insurance and consumer finance, and provides complex asset management services.