Corporate Lending in Russia 2026: fifth forum

About the event

The 5th Forum “Corporate Lending in Russia — 2026” was scheduled for 22 October at Hotel Continental, 22 Tverskaya Street, Moscow. The official page identifies it as a forum focused on corporate and syndicated lending. The one-day agenda moves from an economic outlook to a plenary market discussion, sessions on syndication and financing structure, and later conversations about digital financial assets and the secondary market. This copy reflects the published schedule, not a report that the meetings took place.

At 09:40, Valery Weisberg of IC Region is listed for “Economy and the Rate: Scenarios for 2026.” Questions include the balance between external challenges and internal risks, the economic landscape ahead of a key Central Bank meeting, and possible interest-rate paths for 2026–2027. The opening presentation supplies a macroeconomic frame for later discussion of funding costs and corporate debt.

The 10:00–11:20 plenary, “Corporate Lending 2026: A New Market Cycle or a New Financing Model?”, is moderated by Oleg Ivanov. The listed panel includes lawyer Aleksandr Borgoyakov, Elena Naumtseva of VEB.RF, Maria Ivaneeva of Mainsgroup, Pavel Sklyanchuk of the Centre for Parliamentary Technologies and Andrey Smirnykh of Sberbank. Topics include bank financing for infrastructure and trade projects, state support, guarantees and rate subsidies, funding costs, and changes in trade finance. This is the published panel roster, not a list of other market attendees.

The 11:50–13:10 session “Syndicated Lending: The Market After Restart” examines multi-lender transactions through five announced case studies. The agenda asks what drove the 2026 increase in borrowers and deals, what may shape syndicated lending in 2027, how rates and Central Bank regulation matter, and what a leading banker can advise borrowers and syndicate members. Treasury and banking specialists are listed among the contributors. A short closing poll is to gather borrower views on the advantages and prospects of syndication. These are specific programme questions rather than universal borrowing advice.

After lunch, the 14:20–15:40 section is “Structuring Corporate Finance: Balancing Risk, Capital and Stakeholder Interests.” It is moderated by Natalia Kraslyanskaya of SIBUR and lists lawyers and financing-structure specialists. Subjects include new opportunities and constraints for corporate borrowers, balancing the interests of parties, refinancing and restructuring debt, and legal and regulatory features of transactions. The programme thus links the commercial design of credit with its contractual and legal dimensions without prescribing a solution for any particular company.

At 16:10, the programme turns to “The Future of Corporate Lending: Digital Assets, Artificial Intelligence and New Platforms.” Listed questions cover changes to cryptocurrency legislation, combining digital financial assets with bank loans and bond financing, legal and technology safeguards for digital tools, and barriers to scaling them in corporate lending. The moderator and panelists are listed from finance, banking and exchange organisations. The copy keeps to those programme subjects and does not attribute specific products or deployments to the forum.

The final business block, 17:10–18:30, is an expanded meeting of the Association of Banks of Russia’s Investment Banking Products Committee on the secondary market for syndicated credit. Its agenda includes a draft amendment to the syndicated-credit law, adjustments to Regulation No. 864-P requirements for liquid syndicated loans, standard participation agreements, communication and quotation platforms, and the development of credit default swaps. A reception and business networking follow. This closing block separates regulatory and market-infrastructure questions from the day’s earlier discussions of new deals and financing.

The official schedule is published in Russian. Coffee breaks and lunch separate the sections, and a reception is listed in the foyer before Rodchenko Hall from 18:30 to 20:30 after the committee meeting. This gives the one-day agenda a scheduled informal business close after its topic sessions. These times describe the organiser’s plan and do not by themselves confirm that each block took place.