In Brief: Moscow Getting Aid To Start Loan Market

BankBoston Corp., Fannie Mae, the International Finance Corp., and the New England law firm of Day, Berry & Howard will help Moscow's city government create a mortgage market there during the next three months.

The agreement, announced Sunday at a Harvard University symposium on U.S.-Russian investment, calls for the parties to set up the legal, regulatory, institutional, and financial infrastructure for a mortgage market.

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