URSA Bank made $7.8m worth of coupon payments on its LPN bond issue coupons. The coupon yield was determined at the interest rate of 12% a year. The bank went through with its $130m LPN Eurobond issue on June 27, 2006. The bonds are to be in circulation for five years. Ireland-based Sibacadem finance PLC was the issuer, with coordination by Barclays Capital.

Ural Airlines is already offering its customers tickets to the popular summer holiday destinations in the south of Russia. The tickets are available for all the flights that are to be operated throughout the entire summer season, which means the company’s customers can book the tickets several months in advance at current prices and thus avoid the high-season 25% to 35% price increase. ‘We are trying to steer clear of special offers that promise extremely low prices, since there have been plenty of other airlines that have announced very low-price sales and then fell through in the coming

SKB-Bank’s private individuals’ deposit volume exceeded 11.78 billion RUR on December 31, 2008. The bank reports this figure is even greater than what the company had been planning for the year 2008. ‘Patriot is definitely the most popular deposit type by now, as 2.11 billion RUR have already been invested via this deposit in just three weeks (the deposit offer was launched on December 8, 2008),’ SKB-Bank reports.

763 companies from ten Russian regions opened a deposit at the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The bank’s press officer reports the number of deposits opened by legal entities and sole traders was a record-setting figure throughout the bank’s entire eighteen-year-long history. ‘The number of deposits opened in December was greater than our most optimistic analysts could imagine. We hope we manage to retain this achievement this year as well, and we are glad that such advantages of using our bank as free e-banking installation, online payments, and united cash services system

‘Our bank’s offices are operating in a brand new format now. They used to be classic and conservative and now they are becoming innovational and open. Our experts are thinking over the idea of automated self-service through electronic cash registers, improved ATM systems, and specially trained staff,’ says Bank Monetniy Dom’s Deputy Chair of the Board Oleg Antonov. Bank Monetniy Dom’s new office opened at 37 Vosmoye Marta St. in Yekaterinburg on December 26, 2008. The ceremony was attended by the bank’s BOD Member and President of Ural Financial Holding Vladimir Shulgin, Chair of the