The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was able to raise the number of its bank card-handling outlets by 8% in the first quarter of 2008. The figure thus reached over 480 points, including 220 ATMs and 260 cash outlets. Six new ATMs were introduced in Sverdlovsk Region, three in Chelyabinsk Region, three in Perm Territory, and three in the Republic of Bashkortostan.


The number of the bank’s cards had reached 437,367,000 by the end of March 2008, which was 9% better than a year earlier. The volume of consumer loans and express loans given by the bank went up as well.


The company does its best to make their customer service as mobile and convenient as possible through, for example, introducing more and more cash-in ATMs and new ATM options. The number of enterprises and organizations that one can pay to through the bank’s ATM is ever-increasing. At the moment, the bank holders can use the usual options like withdrawing cash, topping up one’s bank card account, and paying bills and the less customary ones like opening a bank deposit through an ATM (the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development currently offers four such deposit types). The latter is already growing popular with customers.


‘The bank is technologically advanced and customer-friendly and can turn its ATMs into virtual mini offices, which makes finance management much quicker and easier,’ the spokesperson for the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development said to UrBC.