SKB-Bank has recently introduced a new vacancy known as a Credit Agent. Once you become the bank’s credit agent, you get a commission for any loan that the bank was able to issue thanks to you. Your commission depends on the type of loan a customer has applied for. The bank offers the position to private individuals whose job involves interacting with plenty of people (like managers, HR department workers, trade union leaders, and the like) and any active and energetic people who are prepared to work hard and who’d like to expand their professional horizons. This is how the scheme works: a

URSA Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development signed a revolving credit line agreement as part of their trade financing program. The agreement was signed during the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s annual meeting that was held in Kiev on May 18-19, 2008, the bank’s press officer reports. Based on this new contract, URSA Bank can get at least 60 million RUR (to be returned within five years’ time) to finance trade fixtures. The bank has already had a few similar agreements before, but this is their only agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction

UralBusinessConsulting’s West-Siberian branch started operating on May 1, 2008. The new office caters for news coverage of three Russian Federation subjects, that is, Tyumen Region, Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous Region (Yugra), and Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Region. The agency’s West-Siberian branch provides news updates regarding the three regions based on the technologies that had been created and time-tested by UralBusinessConsulting over the seven years the latter has been operating on the Urals’ business information market. The data are freely available from both the new office’s

The recent research conducted by the National Agency of Financial Research (NAFI) on the availability of financial products and services for Russian businesses involved 2,200 respondents; these companies were asked to comment on how easy they feel it is for a startup company to get a bank loan provided they only have a good business plan and no collateral. Over a half of those surveyed said this would be difficult or extremely difficult. Only a quarter of respondents felt it was quite painless for a startup to get a loan. The respondents also said a business’s geographical location mattered a

The customs officers of Yekaterinburg-based Koltsovo airport and the representatives of Federal Security Service’s Frontier Service in Chelyabinsk Region managed to prevent the illegal export of a large amount of cash from Russia. As the passengers of Yekaterinburg-Prague flight were going through the customs formalities, a Russian citizen turned out to have ?9,200, $7,000, 750 CZK and 19,600 RUR on her; this money was never indicated in the passenger’s customs declaration. The total sum of undeclared cash exceeded 527,000 RUR, which means the woman was trying to smuggle a large amount of

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Ural Innovational Commercial Bank to private individuals for 181 days to 1 year plummeted by 87.28% (from 9.206 million RUR to 1.171 million RUR) in January-April 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in SberInvestBank valid for up to 30 days dropped by 95% (from 200 million RUR to 10 million RUR) in January-April 2008.

Aston, the local developer, has not been able to commission any of its buildings under construction yet. According to the builder’s official website, the second section of Aston Park (a nineteen-storey apartment block at 14 Kunarskaya St.) is to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2009, Aquarelle (a seventeen-storey apartment building at 115 Sofya Perovskaya St.) is to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2010, and Athena (a twelve-storey apartment building) is to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2009. At the same time, the commissioning of the building Aston is expected to

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in Sverdlovsk Gubernskiy Bank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 63.48% (from 8.188 million RUR to 2.99 million RUR) in January-April 2008.