RBC.Rating’s analysts came up with a list of Russia’s leading banks in terms of cards issued by July 1, 2010. OAO SKB-Bank, with its 647,770 bank cards, proved the country’s No. 20, Ural Federal District’s second best, and Sverdlovsk Region’s top bank in this respect.

According to the rating, SKB-Bank increased the number of plastic cards it issued by 13.8% in one year. The bank used to have 569,000 cards circulating on July 1, 2009. 17,182 new ones were issued in January-July 2010, which was almost 2,000 items more than in January-July 2009.