16 December 200809:00
Bank Severnaya Kazna reduces interest rates on deposits
Bank Severnaya Kazna reduced the interest rates offered on its Gold Staircase and Rentier deposits on December 15, 2008, the bank’s official website reports.
16 December 200808:57
URSA Bank retires second issue bonds
URSA Bank retired its 1.5-billion-ruble second bond issue on December 12, 2008. The bank also paid 28.425 million RUR worth of profits, since the annual interest rate was declared at 7.6%, or 18.95 RUR per bond. The bank went through with the bond issue on December 16, 2005; the bonds were to be in circulation for three years. The transaction was coordinated by Dresdner Bank.
16 December 200808:54
Educator appointed head of UniCreditBank’s subsidiary in Yekaterinburg
Elena Malakhova (31) was appointed CEO of UniCreditBank’s Yekaterinburg subsidiary. The spokesperson for the bank reports Ms Malakhova used to be the counselor of the subsidiary’s director for economic issues and its retail sales director prior to this promotion. The bank states the new executive graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University with honors in 1999. Her majors were Physics and Philology.
16 December 200808:51
UBRD declared region’s most profitable bank
The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development has recently been declared Sverdlovsk Region’s most lucrative bank. According to RBC.Rating’s list of banks that proved most profitable and effective in January-September 2009, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was Russia’s 49th largest bank and the region’s No.1 in terms of profits. The bank’s balance sheet profit rose by 25% over a year and reached 724.3 million RUR on October 1, 2008, the bank’s press officer reports. The business’s great profitability proves that the bank manages to keep up with the rapid development,
16 December 200808:48
Eduard Rossel and Anna Azari consider setting up Israeli trade mission in Yekaterinburg
Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation Anna Azari to discuss the two ecountries’ cooperation potential in the field of high technologies, telecommunication systems, disaster medicine, and security. The Governor suggested that the Israeli enterprises might act as the prospective investors in Sverdlovsk Region’s innovational businesses and venture funds as well as get a share in various joint projects related to nanotechnologies. In addition, the two parties looked into the possibility of