The FINANCIAL -- Moody's Investors Service has on November 2 upgraded the long-term global scale local currency deposit rating of Prominvestbank (PIB) to B2 and its foreign currency deposit rating to B3 from Caa2.

The FINANCIAL -- Recent Slovenian media reports have said that Slovenia would nominate a Vice-President to the European Investment Bank to replace the French Vice President Philippe de Fontaine Vive Curtaz.

The FINANCIAL -- Société Générale announces the appointment of Carlo Tommaselli as a senior bank analyst in the Sector Research team headed by Fabrice Théveneau, part of the bank’s Cross-Asset Research.

The FINANCIAL -- On October 27, 2009, as 236 billion of restricted shares held by initial shareholders released to the market since floatation three years ago, ICBC, the largest bank in the world in terms of market capitalization, vaults as the No.1 A-share quoted company. 

The FINANCIAL -- From the fall of the Wall on 9 November 1989 until today, KfW Bankengruppe has granted EUR 161.5 billion in loans at greatly reduced interest rates for reconstruction in eastern Germany.