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Since the start of 2019, Center-invest Bank has made 2726 loans to small businesses, for a total of RUB16.6bn. Over a third of these loans have been made under government-subsidised programmes. These results were presented by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank, Dr Vasily Vysokov, at the XVII International Banking Forum "Banks of Russia — XXI Century" held in Sochi.

On 5 September 2019, Center-invest Bank hosted a meeting of the Rostov Region Council of IT System Designers, during which a tripartite agreement was signed on cooperation in the education sector to support gifted and talented children.

Center-invest Bank has published an Environmental, Social and Governance Report for 2018.

Center-invest Bank is one of the top ten most profitable and efficient banks in Russia based on Q1 2019 results. According to a rating published by Interfax-TsEA and Kommersant, Center-invest Bank ranks 5^th among Russian banks for return on equity and 7^th for efficiency (return on assets)*.

Center-invest Bank has opened a new retail branch in the Newton shopping centre in Krasnodar. This is its sixth branch in the capital city of Krasnodar krai. Center-invest Bank now has a total of 125 branches.

On the initiative оf Center-invest Bank and with its financial support, the Rostov Region Department of the Federal State Statistics Service has produced a statistical report, "The Rostov Region — Progress Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals."

In the Expert rating agency’s annual ranking of the banks in Russia that work with SMEs, Center-invest Bank is one of the leaders.

Center-invest Bank recently became one of the founding members of a new national Financial Literacy Association. The chairman of Center-invest Bank’s Board of Directors, Dr Vasily Vysokov, has been elected to the Association’s Supervisory Board.