Shop talk: VTB on evolving ‘Sino-Russia’ relations

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Asia-Pacific, Europe

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Igor Ostreyko, managing director of trade and export finance at VTB, and Anna Ponomareva, head of ECA and agency finance at VTB, discuss product innovations in a post-sanction environment, and how the state-owned bank has become the only Russian lender to tap Sinosure cover.

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