UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2019. METCOMBANK was one of Russia’s top ten banks in terms of asset growth in the three quarters of 2019, Kommersant Publishing House’s experts refer to Interfax-CEA’s rating as indicating. According to the bank’s press service, the rating is based on the data for the country’s one hundred largest banks’ asset volume as of October 1, 2019. METCOMBANK’s assets rose by 21.5% and reached RUB 75.5129 trillion. Given all of the bank’s financial performance indicators, METCOMBANK is still on the list of Russia’s top 100 banks. METCOMBANK is one of the Urals’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2019. SKB-Bank presented its Faster Payments System services at a tech conference in Moscow this week. According to the bank’s press service, the conference participants and visitors to the event could see for themselves how SKB-Bank’s DeloKassa processes dynamic QR code payments and payment cancellations/refunds and check out the bank’s mobile app for QR code-enabled C2C transfers and C2B payments as well. ‘SKB-Bank is currently Russia’s only bank to offer its customers a full-fledged QR code-enabled C2B payment/refund option and an ‘instant account’ option

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2019. ChelPipe Group invested RUB 6m in a new gym facility at Iron Ozone 32 Department of Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), the Group’s press service reports. ‘The gym/fitness studio can be found in the office/utility building. There are two rooms: a gym with the up-to-date, professional cardio and weight machines that are suitable for both experienced athletes and beginners, and a group workout studio with exercise balls, yoga mats, a tennis table, and darts. Our employees can use the gym every night on weekdays,’ the press service says. ‘ChelPipe Group

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 16, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came 4th in the RAEX Rating Review’s rating of Russian employers in terms of how much they invested in human capital in 2018, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The socially responsible spending a business does within the company is the money directed to employees’ professional development, training, healthcare, and improvements in working conditions. In 2018, MMK Group spent 11% more on charity and social projects than in 2017 (nearly RUB 2.5bn altogether), the company says. According to MMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 16, 2019. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) underwent its latest public environmental audit by Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry’s Public Council successfully, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports. ‘The council’s representatives went to NTMK’s production departments and got acquainted with the best available environmental techniques the plant is using,’ the company says. The audit is expected to result into an independent analytical report that will get presented to Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry and