(SRI) - A U.S. bankruptcy court granted Alliance Bank protection from U.S. creditors so that it may complete the restructuring of its $4.5-billion debt, Bloomberg reported.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan’s Financial Supervision Agency of Kazakhstan (FSA) has stripped the Seimar Alliance Financial Corporation, previously controlling shareholder of Alliance Bank, of its bank holding company status.
(SRI) - Samruk-Kazyna, the state holding and investment company, closed the deal to acquire 100 percent of Alliance Bank’s shares for one tenge on December 31, 2009, the bank said in a statement.
(SRI) - The creditors of Alliance Bank, Kazakhstan’s second-largest lender to default this year, voted to approve a plan to restructure KZT677 billion ($4.5 billion) of debt.
(SRI) - Eurobond holders have approved the restructuring plan presented by Alliance Bank in an extraordinary meeting on December 11, according to a press release.
(SRI) - The Specialized Financial Court in Almaty has extended the deadline for Alliance Bank’s debt restructuring until March 15, the lender said last week. It was initially due to complete the procedures by December 15.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan will not allow foreign investors to take control over key Kazakh banks, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said in a televised question and answer session on Friday.
(SRI) - Alliance Bank announced on Monday it would hold a creditors meeting on December 15 in Almaty to approve the bank’s debt restructuring plan.
(SRI) - Alliance Bank lost KZT224 billion ($1.5 billion) in the first nine months of 2009, the lender reported on Thursday. In the same period last year, Alliance recorded a loss of KZT988 million ($7 million).
(SRI) - The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) announced on Friday preferred and ordinary shares of BTA Bank and Alliance Bank would be delisted from the exchange effective November 2.