The Moscow-based Renaissance Hotel is going to host the 7th International Retail Business Summit on September 4-6, 2008. Some representatives of Sverdlovsk Region’s business community intend to take part in the event, Kinetika’s Marketing Director Stanislav Danilchenko being one of them. All in all, at least a thousand people from fifteen different countries are expected to attend the summit. The agenda of the business forum provides for a series of plenary sessions and private sittings as well as a Moscow-World Class Retail telebridge on technological breakthroughs and innovational concepts

URSA Bank took part in an auction conducted by Saint Petersburg Currency Exchange for a state corporation dealing in housing facilities reform. The company in question was willing to select the best bank to deposit its funds with, so URSA Bank was chosen as one of the winners and was able to sign an agreement with the fund within the determined money limit. ‘The bank was put on the authorized banks list due to its impressive Russian and international ratings and thanks to the sufficient amount of core capital,’ URSA Bank’s Deputy CEO Maxim Krasnikov says.

According to the Central Bank of Russia, volume of private individuals’ demand deposits and other investments in Bank Uralfinance dropped by 16.52% (from 16.047 million RUR to 13.395 million RUR) in January-July 2008.

‘Not only did our Magnificent Seven deposit prove as good as we had expected it to be, but it actually surpassed our boldest expectations. More than 7,500 people have used this deposit type within the first month of launching it alone, which is even more striking given that that we did not engage in any aggressive ad campaign to speak of. The deposit grew so amazingly popular that we thought it best to introduce it in all of URSA Bank’s subsidiaries a few weeks ahead of the original schedule. We’ve even had some customers calling from offices in Serov who wanted to use the deposit ASAP just a

Ural Treasures Bank is going to become Rus-Bank-Ural Open Joint Stock Company on September 4, 2008. The rest of the bank’s details have remained the same: the bank’s C/A number in the Bank of Russia’s Yekaterinburg division is 30101810300000000942, the tax payer number is 6603005465, the bank identification code is 046551942, the tax inspectorate registration code (KPP) is 667101001, OKPO number is 09253056, OKVED number is 65.12, and the state registration number (OGRN) is 1026600000932.

Ural Airlines flew its millionth passenger in 2008: this was Dmitriy Tarantin, who used the company’s Yekaterinburg-Sochi flight 219 at 9.30 AM on August 29, 2008. The airline’s Deputy CFO Dmitriy Lvov congratulated the lucky passenger and presented him with a laptop. Remarkably, the carrier is to welcome its millionth passenger of the year two months earlier compared to the year 2007. ‘This has to do with the greater number of aircraft we operate now. Ural Airlines is now using some Russian aircraft as well as five modern and comfortable A 320 airplanes that make it possible to offer our

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of for-profit self-regulatory organizations’ deposits in VUZ-Bank valid for 1 to 3 years went down by 14.34% (from 23.661 million RUR to 20.268 million RUR) in January-July 2008.

According to Delovoy Kvartal’s rating, SKB-Leasing was Yekaterinburg’s second best leasing market player in the first half of 2008. The magazine reports SKB-Leasing was able to outstrip many federal-scale companies in the rating with its 688 million RUR worth of money provided to the customers in the first half of the year. At the same time, SKB-Leasing has remained Yekaterinburg’s No. 1 in terms of money offered to finance the purchase of machinery; besides, the company tops the ratings that feature the market leaders in terms of new transaction costs, current transaction costs, volume of

‘The clashes between Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk Airlines have more than the civil law contract side to them; the transport authorities are rightly pointing to the need to look into the actual circumstances,’ lawyer Ivan Kadochnikov said to UrBC. The region’s public prosecution authorities for transportation warned Koltsovo airport against refusing to render any ground handling services to Krasnoyarsk Airlines due to the carrier’s failing to pay their ground handling bills. The authorities report this would be a violation of the federal laws. ‘It’s quite true that

Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by UralTransBank to private individuals for 91 to 180 days dropped by 42.04% (from 4.495 million RUR to 2.605 million RUR) in January-July 2008.