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2 I Contents bne February 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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4 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
8 Hungary’s largest BSE-listed investment holding firm is born
9 Profit of Czech forest enterprise Lesy CR down 60% to CZK1.62bn in 3Q18
10 Uzbekistan’s bourse is open for business
11 Telia sells bribes-tainted Uzbek telecoms holding
12 US ready to cancel sanctions on Russian Rusal aluminum major
13 Turkey’s Halkbank to issue eurobonds for first time since ‘Iran sanctions’ arrest in US
14 Ukraine cancels privatisation auction of power company Centrenergo
15 Russia's venture capital market to decuple in size to $40bn by 2030 due to pension money
16 Big mortgage-backed securities move amid new ‘normal’ anomalies
18 FX Iranians rush for ‘Ferdowsi’ trades as rial stages remarkable recovery
19 Russia’s Tretyakov Gallery to digitise its famous art collection and put on a blockchain
COVER FEATURE
20 The digital revolution in CEE
21 Russia’s Odnoklassniki sets up shop in Kazakhstan
24 CEE firms to invest heavily into robots
26 Russia’s major corporates under- going a digital transformation
27 Astana eager to boast a regional IT startups hub
29 High tech investment the answer to CEE’s labour crisis
31 Lithuanian central bank issues banking licence to fast-growing fintech company Revolut
OUTLOOKS 2019
34 Kazakh Outlook 2018 37 Poland Outlook 2019 39 Russia Outlook 2019 44 Turkey Outlook 2019
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