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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Russia’s Sberbank pulls out of Europe after facing failure amid sanctions

Logo of Sberbank in Ljubljana.
Sberbank had European assets worth €13bn at the end of 2020. Photograph: Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images

Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, is pulling out of the European market, after it said it faced large outflows of cash in the region as well as threats to the safety of its employees and branches.

The bank said its European subsidiaries had faced “abnormal cash outflows”, meaning it could no longer supply them with liquidity. However, Sberbank said it had sufficient capital to be able to make payments to all of its depositors.

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