About Us

Welcome to the web-site of Alfa Capital Holdings (Cyprus) Ltd, probably one of the biggest Cypriot Investments Firms.
Our Company  was incorporated in Cyprus on the 23rd of April 1996, with registration number 78416, under the provisions of the Cyprus Company Law, Cap. 113. The beneficial owner of the Company is ABH Financial Limited. ABH Holdings Corporation is the ultimate beneficial holder. Alfa Capital Holdings (Cyprus) Limited was regulated by the Central Bank of Cyprus as a financial services company under permit number EC/D/II/24839 issued in April 2002 by which it was licensed to offer financial services to the Company’s shareholders, banking or credit institutions and other experienced professional investors.

The change in the regulatory framework was a consequence of the accession of Cyprus in the European Union as of 1st of May 2004. Our company successfully obtained a license from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission to engage principally in brokerage activities and proprietary trading under the license number 025/04.The license entitles our company to operate both locally (within certain restrictions) and to markets inside and outside the European Union.

In 2005 Alfa Capital Holdings (Cyprus) opened a branch  in London United Kingdom ‘Alfa Capital Markets’. The branch is an extension for cooperate finance, advisory and underwriting services offered by Our Company in the international capital markets.  In addition we provide investment services in Ukraine through our fully owned company  Alfa Capital LLC Ukraine in cooperation with Alfa-Bank Ukraine.

The Group

ABH Financial LTD is the parent company of Alfa Capital Holdings (Cyprus) Ltd as well as of “Alfa Banking Group” in which our Company is also part. The Group comprises Alfa-Bank, the second largest private bank with the second largest branch network in Russia. The bank has subsidiaries in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Amsterdam and New York and  operates in all sectors of the financial markets.

Alfa MTN Insurance Ltd, Alfa MTN Markets Ltd and Alfa MTN Invest Ltd,  companies which belong to ABH Financial Ltd issued  Euro medium term notes  of the aggregate amount of U.S.$ 1,000,000,000 or its equivalent in alternative currencies. ABH Financial Ltd and Alfa-Bank unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed the due and punctual payment of all amounts. The issuers and the guarantors appointed Barclays Bank PLC, J.P Morgan Securities Ltd., Merril Lynch International and UBS Limited as Dealers for the Notes. The notes are officially listed for trading on the London Stock Exchange.

The Group is part of the Alfa Group Consortium, one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial industrial conglomerates with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, telecommunication and other industrial-trade investments.The Group typically focuses on value-oriented, longer-term opportunities, primarily in Russia and the CIS, but also invests in other markets which form part of the Group’s strategic business objectives. Founded in 1989 as Alfa-Eco, the Group began trading in commodities including oil. Today Alfa-Eco is an investment group that enjoys a leading position on promissing domestic markets.