Banking & Finance: weekly review for January 25, 2010

In this issue:

2 Upcoming events
2-4 Industry News
2 Central Bank of Uzbekistan registers new banks
2 NBU to place corporate bonds for 100 billion soums
Credit Standard Bank named the Best Innovative Bank in 2009
2 Agrobank assets grow by 44.3% in 2009
3 Sanctions for violation of legislation on combating income legalization approved in Uzbekistan
3 Order on payment of single tax for wholesale organizations with advanced payments approved
3 Expert RA withdraws Uzpromstroybank’s rating
3 Uzbekistan’s economy to grow by 6.5% next two years – World Bank
4 CBU, UBA names the best banks of 2009
4 IFC to invest up to 100m euros to help Central and Eastern Europe deal with bad loans
5 Uzbekistan to modernize tax body system
5 Qishloq Qurilish Bank to raise charter capital to 150bn soums
5 4 IPO and M&A
5 Legislation news
6 UzSE
7 Uzbekistan financial stocks performance
8 AFS-Research productline