Rus-Bank-Ural promoted in RBC rating

In July 2008, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was promoted from the 38th to the 34th position in MICEX Top 50 share market players rating. 654 market operators competed for a position in the rating altogether, while the bank’s promotion was brought about by a turnover increase: this went up from 4.4 billion RUR in June 2008 to 6.5 billion RUR in July 2008. In addition, the volume of the bank’s REPO transactions at MICEX stock exchange rose from 3.8 billion RUR to 22.9 billion RUR, or by over six times in July 2008 compared to a month earlier. As a result, the bank was

Interfax-CEA reports SKB-Bank was promoted in Russia’s Top 100 Banks rating (based on the volume of banks’ assets) in the first half of 2008. The banks’ rating was compiled by the agency’s experts on the basis of data available as of July 1, 2008. SKB-Bank was given the 74th position in the rating compared to the 67th position a year earlier. The bank managed to raise its net assets by 51% over one year, so these now come to 35.772 billion RUR. 1,000 banks aspired to be featured in Interfax-CEA’s rating as of July 1, 2008 altogether.

Ural Treasures Bank was given the 230th position in RosBusinessConsulting’s rating of Russia’s Top 500 most profitable banks (published on April 1, 2008). Besides, the bank was given the 108th position in Bankir.ru’s rating of the country’s 200 largest banks in terms of ATM turnover in April 2008, which was nine positions better than a year earlier. Then, Ural Treasures Bank was rated 189th largest bank in the first quarter of 2008 by RosBusinessConsulting and 91st position in Bankir.ru’s ranking of top 100 largest banks in terms of private individuals’ deposits compiled on May 1, 2008.

RBC.Rating came up with this year’s list of Russian banks with the most developed subsidiary network. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was featured on the list as usual. This is in fact Ural Federal District’s largest bank in terms of the number of subsidiaries that was given the 21st position in the national rating. RosBusinessConsulting’s experts report the bank ran 161 outlets (including subsidiaries, additional offices, POS terminals, etc) on July 1, 2008, the spokesperson for the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development reports. ‘The bank does better and better every

Kommersant, a prominent Russian publishing house, came up with its First Rating on Russia’s Top 200 largest banks. Most of the banks that made it into the first hundred are based in Moscow, while only two banks located in Tyumen Region and three banks located in Sverdlovsk Region actually represent the Urals. Yekaterinburg-based SKB-Bank was given the 88th position in terms of its equity capital (the figure exceeded 3 billion RUR on October 1, 2007). As a matter of fact, SKB-Bank was promoted to its current rating from the 69th position it was given in 2006.