OREANDA-NEWS. On 17 March 2009 was announced, that a briefing took place on a theme 'Implementation of Financial Recovery Plan and prospect of development of Prominvestbank'. Temporary Administrator of Prominvestbank Mr.Volodymyr Krotyuk, Chairman of State Corporation 'Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)' (Russian Federation) Mr.Vladimir Dmitriev and Board Member of SLAV AG (Austria) Mr.Denis Kireev took part in this briefing.

During the briefing Temporary Administrator of Prominvestbank Mr.Volodymyr Krotyuk noted that Financial Recovery Plan is successfully implementing. Share capital of the bank was increased in 6 times, more than USD 700 million additional resources were attracted. Today Prominvestbank works stable, funds of customers under moratorium were pre-term unblocked, bank makes customers' settlements day in a day and follows all economical standards. In the nearest future bank should receive third tranche of long-term resources in amount of USD 285 million.

Temporary Administrator also announced that Mr.Viktor Bashkirov had been appointed as Chairman of Prominvestbank, and he should proceed to its obligations after approval of his candidacy with National Bank of Ukraine.

Chairman of Vnesheconombank Mr.Vladimir Dmitriev noted that as a basic mission of State Corporation 'Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)' is overcoming infrastructural limitations of growth, support of leading spheres of industry, small and middle business and export potential, and also support of processes of integrations, operational ties between the countries of CIS, so exactly these areas Vnesheconombank intends to develop in Ukraine through Prominvestbank.

'We consider that ideology of merge of Prominvestbank by Vnesheconombank is based on strategic interest, not only Russian but also Ukrainian. In fact it is extraordinarily important by providing professional bank services to provide development of bilateral trade and economic relations, as today integration between our countries is deep enough', - noted Mr.Vladimir Dmitriev.

Mr.Vladimir Dmitriev also informed that the bank has long-term strategic intentions in development of relations with Ukraine, and the shareholders intend to bring the bank to the leading positions in Ukrainian banking system: 'We want the bank to be among the largest five banks', - noted Mr.Dmitriev.