Iranian, Russian central banks to support businessmen

EghtesadOnline: Bank Melli Iran and Russia’s Mir-Business Bank voiced their readiness to support the two countries’ economic activists.

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20 February 2017

The announcement came in a meeting between Managing Director of Bank Melli Iran Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh and Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Russia Dmitry Eskobelkin.

Hosseinzadeh said that Bank Melli Iran and Russia’s Mir-Business Bank are fully prepared to support the economic activists of the two countries, ILNA reported.

“Mir-business bank has a strategic role in establishing interaction between the two countries’ banking systems and it is run under the auspices of Russia’s rules and regulations and it has managed to provide the businessmen with good banking services,” Bank Melli Iran managing director said.

In late December, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak in an address to Iran-Russia Trade Conference had said that the two countries’ central banks had created the best conditions as compared with the past and the cash was transferred in a suitable way.

“10 big bank have resumed activities in Iran and Russia and a follow-up team has been commissioned to improve the conditions,” Novak added.