According to the Expert-Ural magazine, Ural banks tended to give a lot more consumer loans last year compared with the previous one; besides, the banks’ assets and funds rose simultaneously by 36% on average. Sverdlovsk Region’s banks were reported to have the greatest volume of assets altogether among Ural Federal District’s banking communities.


SKB-Bank was declared the fastest-growing business among the Urals’ Top 10 banks in 2007; the bank’s assets grew by 64% last year, which is twice as much as the average figures. In addition, SKB-Bank was Sverdlovsk Region’s largest bank in terms of profits and second largest bank in terms of funds volume. Moreover, SKB-Bank was the region’s largest bank in terms of consumer loan portfolio and legal entities’ deposits and investments portfolio.