The Board of Directors of Sverdlovenergosbyt was unable to plan the agenda for the upcoming shareholder meeting. Nevertheless, the agenda has to be decided upon no later than May 20, 2009. The meeting itself is to take place in Moscow on June 24, 2009.

Severnaya Kazna (the asset of Alfa-Bank) no longer handles any money orders through Western Union, Blizko, or Contact. The information to this extent is available via the bank’s official website.

Home Credit & Finance Bank’s stockholders decided at their latest general meeting in Moscow that the 1,198,505,761 RUR worth of losses in 2008 should be compensated by the undistributed profits accumulated over the previous years. The decision was approved of by the votes of the shareholders present at the meeting.

Absolut Bank Joint Stock Commercial Bank’s BOD suggested that the stockholders should abstain from distributing the net profit for 2008 and pass the share dividend. The latter are supposed to make this decision at the AGM in Moscow on June 4, 2009.

The Federal Financial Market Service annulled Bank24.ru’s license entitling the business to brokerage and dealing operations as well as security transactions. This news has been announced via the bank Group’s official website.