Drexel Burnham Lambert

Alpha Bank is awaiting binding offers from three short-listed investors for the concession of its nonperforming corporate loan portfolio dubbed "Neptune," testing investor interest in the largest portfolio of secured corporate loans put up for sale by a Greek lender to date.

Greece's fourth-largest lender Alpha Bank said on Thursday it clinched a deal to sell 1.0 bln euros of Greek small business non-performing loans with a consortium of funds managed by Apollo Global Management and the IFC.

Financial advisory firm Lazard told BIRN that it has not signed a strategic partnership deal with US investment fund Apollo Management, a potential buyer of Telekom Srbija, contrary to allegations in Serbian media.

"Lazard never formed a strategic partnership with Apollo," said Richard Creswell, Lazard senior vice-president at Lazard.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, on Saturday, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on international security policy, had a meeting with Ellen Tauscher, Vice President of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, also a member in the Executive Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States and chief negotiator for the Agreement between Romania and t