The FINANCAIL -- VTB Bank has won a headline award in Euromoney’s ‘Best Managed Companies in Central & Eastern Europe’ annual survey for 2012. The bank has been ranked first in the ‘Most Accessible Senior Management in CEE’ category.

The FINANCIAL -- Building upon its history of supporting local communities, Wells Fargo announced a $25,000 grant to aid merchants in the Valencia Corridor of San Francisco.

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank presented the 2012 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service to Baboucarr Bouy, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education of The Gambia.

The FINANCIAL -- EBRD President Thomas Mirow visited Tunisia, the cradle of the “Arab Uprising”, this week and said he expected EBRD funds to start flowing to the country in September this year.

The FINANCIAL -- The EBRD is helping to improve the quality of water services in Serbia with an €11 million sovereign guaranteed loan for the expansion of the water supply infrastructure in the City of Subotica, in the northern part of the country. As a European Union candidate country, adopting the EU Environmental policy is one of Serbia’s key priorities.