UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 14, 2019. Chair of the Supervisory Board at SKB-Bank Denis Repnikov won the Man of The Year 2019 Award by the Delovoy Kvartal magazine as Financier of The Year. The awarding ceremony took place in Ural State Variety Theater in Yekaterinburg last week, the bank’s press service reports.

‘The award’s coordinating/expert committee commented on the bank’s impressive technological growth under Repnikov. This year, SKB-Bank was among the first businesses in the finance sector to join the Faster Payments System and to start registering its customers within the United Biometric System (UBS),’ the press service says.

According to their press service, SKB-Bank Group’s DeloBank got launched in February 2018, welcomed its 60,000th customer as soon as September 2019, and is now the No.1 bank with the best terms for freelancers and sales outlets (according to Markswebb’s Business Banking Fees Monitoring).

The Delovoy Kvartal magazine introduced the Man of The Year Award in 2010. Every year, the prize goes to people who made the greatest contribution to Sverdlovsk Region’s economy, culture, and the social welfare sector. The winners in every category get selected through votes submitted by members of the local business community.