奥地利国际雷法森银行（Raiffeisen Bank International）首席执行官 Michael Hoellerer 表示，如果法院裁决带来的 31.5 亿欧元（35 亿美元）意外收入能够落实，该奥地利银行退出俄罗斯市场的努力可能会获得新的动力。
Bank International Chief Executive Officer Michael Hoellerer said the Austrian lender’s efforts to exit Russia could gain fresh momentum if a €3.15 billion ($3.5 billion) windfall payment from a court ruling materializes.
上个月，维也纳一家法院对 Rasperia Trading 公司作出缺席判决，裁定其在终止两家公司的复杂资产交换协议后，向雷法森银行支付约 31.5 亿欧元的损害赔偿。这笔款项将是该奥地利银行自因制裁而无法将超额利润从俄罗斯子公司转移以来，首次——即便只是间接地——从该子公司获得现金。
A Vienna court last month issued a default judgment against Rasperia Trading, ordering it to pay damages of about €3.15 billion to Raiffeisen after a complex asset swap involving the two companies was axed. The payment would be the first cash the Austrian lender extracts — if indirectly — from its Russian subsidiary since sanctions made the transfer of excess profits from the unit impossible.
“这一极其复杂的流程中，我们还有一些后续步骤，”Hoellerer 在维也纳举行的彭博活动上表示。如果成功，“这将为我们下一步退出俄罗斯市场带来灵活性。”自今年接任以来，Hoellerer 已承诺对奥地利第二大银行进行重大调整。在弗拉基米尔·普京对乌克兰发动全面入侵之后，雷法森银行是少数几家仍维持在俄罗斯运营的西方银行之一。尽管该行已缩减了在该国的业务，但由于未能说服俄罗斯、欧盟和美国的监管机构批准相关交易，出售该子公司的努力一直受阻。
“We have some more steps in this very complex process,” Hoellerer said at a Bloomberg event in Vienna. If successful, “then it brings in flexibility on the next steps toward exiting Russia.”Hoellerer has pledged to shake up Austria’s second-biggest lender since taking over this year. Raiffeisen is among a small number of Western lenders that have maintained operations in Russia in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While it reduced business in the country, efforts to sell the unit have been stymied because it’s been unable to convince authorities in Russia, the EU and the US to sign off on a deal.
大约三年前达成的与 Rasperia 的交易原本旨在让雷法森银行将部分俄罗斯利润汇回本国，但由于未能获得监管机构的批准，该奥地利银行最终放弃了这项交易。随后，一家俄罗斯法院裁定雷法森银行在该国的子公司向 Rasperia 支付数十亿欧元，而 Rasperia 此前与受制裁的商人奥列格·德里帕斯卡（Oleg Deripaska）有关联。作为回应，雷法森银行在奥地利对 Rasperia 提起了诉讼。
The deal with Rasperia, agreed about three years ago, was meant to allow Raiffeisen to repatriate some of its Russian profits, but the Austrian lender ended up scrapping it because it couldn’t get the backing of regulators. A Russian court subsequently ordered Raiffeisen’s subsidiary in the country to pay billions of euros to Rasperia, a company previously affiliated with sanctioned businessman Oleg Deripaska. Raiffeisen, in turn, sued Rasperia in Austria.
如果Rasperia不提出上诉，维也纳法院的裁决将成为最终裁决。Raiffeisen表示，计划向金融监管机构FMA提交申请，以解冻Rasperia在奥地利的资产，从而执行该裁决。
The Vienna court’s ruling will be final if Rasperia does not appeal, and Raiffeisen has said it plans to submit an application to financial regulator FMA to release Rasperia’s Austrian assets in order to enforce the ruling.
Hoellerer在周一早些时候表示，如果可以的话，他明天就会离开俄罗斯。他表示，他现在的主要精力集中在争取法院和监管机构对其向Rasperia提出的损害赔偿索赔的批准。
Hoellerer said earlier on Monday that he’d quit Russia tomorrow if he could. His focus now primarily lies on securing court and regulatory approval in the damages claim against Rasperia he said.
彭博社上个月报道称，随着Raiffeisen越来越接近收到付款，该贷款机构正准备将中亚作为新的增长重点，并可能考虑进行收购。
Bloomberg reported last month that the lender is preparing to make Central Asia a new growth focus and may consider acquisitions, as Raiffeisen edges closer to the collecting the payment.