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It won’t have escaped your notice but there are further regulatory changes coming down the track. Hard on the heels of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), the second iteration of Europe’s Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation are under way.

As universal lenders retreat from key markets, VTB Capital is pushing hard into industries that will increasingly define the 21st century, from ports services to infrastructure and logistics, building strong and enduring relations with a host of powerful corporates in the global ascendancy.

The latest RUSSIA CALLING! forum, held by VTB Capital in Moscow, proved to be another unalloyed success.

Trailblazing software specialist InfoWatch has long been one of Russia’s brightest tech-sector prospects. Spun out of software giant Kaspersky Lab more than a decade ago, it now bestrides the industry, helping leading Russian and global firms to combat cyber-attacks and protect against internal breaches. We spoke to InfoWatch CEO and founder Natalya Kaspersky about the firm’s – and Russia’s – increasingly bright future.

Russia and China are entering a golden age, as the two superpowers finesse political relations, boost the mutual use of one another's currencies and forge profitable new bilateral trade routes. An economic relationship that could define the 21st century is beginning to come of age.

Public-private partnerships are all the rage in Russia, with toll roads, motorways, airports and medical facilities springing up around the country. New PPP legislation passed this year, which protects the right of all investors, is expected to boost interest even further, dragging in global capital in the years and decades to come as Russia looks to fill a $1 trillion infrastructure gap.

Russia's debt and equity capital markets are rebounding fast, along with a resurgent onshore and cross-border M&A industry. At RUSSIA CALLING!, VTB Capital is laying the groundwork for multinational firms seeking to invest in the resurgent economy, helping investors to accelerate regional growth, and identifying emerging trends in the domestic and offshore DCM and ECM, along with a host of other business and investment opportunities.

Russia's economy is over the worst and on the mend. Economic growth might have dipped as oil prices tumbled, but a weaker rouble also meant higher exports and a more competitive economy. The next big step is to return the country to growth, with gross domestic product set to turn positive in 2016, ahead of schedule.

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