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Responding to an appeal by the governor of the Rostov Region, Vasily Golubev, for the business community to support medical workers, on 11 January 2021 Center-invest Bank introduced special loan terms for these personnel. We are offering frontline medical workers preferential terms for refinancing consumer, mortgage and car loans taken out with another bank, and reduced rates for existing loan agreements with Center-invest Bank.

For media activity in 2020, Center-invest Bank has moved up the Media Rating of Russian Banks to 27th place. We were also one of the top 30 banks in Yandex searches, and our social media subscribers increased by 7%. This data is supplied by the Brobank.ru service.

Center-invest Bank has launched a special loan for self-employed individuals with an annual interest rate of 10.5%. The maximum loan term is five years, and the maximum amount for an unsecured loan is RUB1m.

Center-invest Bank opened its first Volgodonsk branch in December 2000. Today, it is one of the bank’s largest and fastest growing branches in the Rostov region. With market-leading positions in Volgodonsk, the main branch manages eight smaller branches, which together make up 22% of the territory of the Rostov region.

On 9 December 2020, the placement of a new RUB300m issue of Center-invest Bank green bonds began on the Moscow Exchange in its Sustainable Development Sector. The bank's experts predict that the environmental impact of this issue will be equivalent to a reduction in CO2 emissions of 6,408 tonnes.

The final of the national student competition, FinCup SFEDU, was held on 5 December. Center-invest Bank was one of the competition partners and provided the main prize.

Thanks to a Center-invest Bank pilot project, since 1 September, several dozen schools have been able to accept cashless payments for school meals. Over 25,000 pupils are participating in the project.

In 2020 Center-invest Bank began rolling out an ATM cash pay-in service for companies and sole traders as part of its business process transformation. In the first 11 months of 2020, customers paid in more than RUB8bn at ATMs.