Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed Alior Bank will begin looking for a majority-stake strategic investor before the end of Q1 2013. According to information obtained by Parkiet, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority wants Alior's investor to hold a rating at least as high as the bank itself and to come from a country with a rating at least as high as Poland's.

The newspaper speculated that Russian Sberbank could be the new investor but the bank denied having plans to enter Poland.

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