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Issuer strategy

VTB swaps quantity for quality

Herbert Moos, VTB's chief financial officerHerbert Moos, VTB's chief financial officer

Russia's second largest bank has grown its assets more than 30 times over the past 10 years, but its new chief financial officer explains that a more measured business strategy has altered the bank's wholesale funding priorities. Writer Philip Alexander