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4 I Contents bne October 2019
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
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(London)
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Elena Arbuzova (Moscow) business development director (CIS)
Design
Olga Gusarova (London) art director
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Record lending fuels Hungary's banking sector growth
11 Money continues to flow out of Hungarian investment funds
12 Poland hints at stopping purchases of Russian gas altogether
12 Ukraine government sees 40% GDP growth in five years, triggers worries over debt repayment
14 Russian crab licences redistribution to bring state at least $2bn
14 Turkey's banking regulator demands lenders write off $8bn of loans
15 Moldovan banks close accounts of key Transnistrian companies
16 KPMG says Moldovan investor falsified financial statements to claim $500mn from Kazakhstan
17 Fox Marble launches €195mn arbitration proceedings against Kosovo
18 Turkish banks eye transfer of higher-quality NPLs to asset management company
19 Rate-setters go for another dizzying descent
21 “Renewed collapse in lira” just a matter of time says Commerzbank ahead of Turkish rates meeting
22 Cybersecurity firm Acronis becomes Russia's second unicorn this year
22 “Airbnb for boats” GetMyBoat reports surge in Southeast European business
23 Czechs show their back to Europeans in e-commerce via mobiles, according to JP Morgan
24 Porsche boosts stake in Croatia’s Rimac to 15.5%
25 The “Russian Netflix” Ivi.ru receives $40mn from top Russian and foreign investors
26 Russia's Sberbank completes acquisition of Rambler online media group
COVER FEATURE
28 What’s to be done about those who
are to blame in Ukraine?
32 Ukraine and Russia swap 70 prisoners of war
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