RBC.Rating’s analysts came up with the rating of Russia’s largest banks in terms of unsecured loan issuance in 2010. The analysts report the total volume of such loans offered by Russian banks to their customers in 2010 was almost twice as big as that for the year 2009. The lending portfolios of the overwhelming majority of Russian banks featured in the rating grew considerably.

SKB-Bank topped the list of banks with the greatest unsecured loan portfolio increases in 2010. Its portfolio grew from 4.9bn RUR on January 1, 2010 to 15.5bn RUR on January 1, 2011. The increase reached 220% in the course of one year, which was the best result among the country’s top 30 banks.