RBC DAILY. Former Federation Council member and leader of political party Alliance of the Greens Gleb Fetisov has divested his financial assets My Bank and My Bank.Mortgage. As market sources told RBC daily, the transaction was closed on Friday, and the bank’s new shareholders are now a group of individuals, including those close to the bank’s current board chairman Mikhail Mirimsky. Igor Leiko, who is presently the lending institution’s board member (Kira Andrianova currently acts as the bank’s management board chairwoman), will become My Bank’s new management board chairman.
The transaction price was not disclosed. According to the paper’s source close to Fetisov, the sale is related to the fact that the former senator’s political activity will become “more oppositional” and he doesn’t want to mix it with business.
A market source said that after the bank’s latest inspection the Bank of Russia demanded from the owner to inject additional capital into the bank. Vedomosti previously wrote that the regulator ordered My Bank to cut deposit rates. In line with the bank’s financial statement, since spring the bank’s retail deposits have declined by over 6%.
