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VTB decided to increase dividends

| 14:08 EST | 00:38 IST | 03:08 SGT
VTB chairman Andrey Kostin announced that bank decided to spend up to 40% of its 2007 year profit for dividends.

This figure is very high for emerging markets. For example, Sberbank spends about 10% of its profit for divident payments.

After that shares of VTB raised 1.8% to 0.124 rubles.

Analysts think that such high dividend payments will increase attractiveness of VTB in the eyes of its shareholders, because shares didn't show any good results after IPO on March 2007.