URSA Bank declared it was about to buy out its Eurobonds. The bonds in question are a ?400m issue to be retired in May 2010 (ISIN: XS0301291729) and a ?300m one to be retired in November 2011 (ISIN: XS0274663383), the bank reports. The first issue bonds with face value of ?1,000 will be bought for no more than ?900 apiece, the bonds from the second issue will be bought for no more than ?780 apiece. The final scale of the buyout and the prices are to be determined in the course of a Dutch auction. The total buyout volume is not expected to exceed ?60m for each issue and ?100m for two issues

The Central Bank of Russia reports volume of loans given by Sberinvestbank to non-state for-profit organizations for 181 days to 1 year had gone down by 39.21% (from 102 million RUR to 62 million RUR) by February 1, 2009.

The number of Bank Severnaya Kazna’s (Alfa-Bank’s asset at the moment) Supervisory Board members has been reduced to three; the decision to this extent was made by the bank’s Board of Directors. The Supervisory Board is therefore now comprised by Chairman Andrei Volchik and his Deputies Roman Vitkovskiy and Sergey Shevchenko.