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In 2020 Center-invest Bank lent businesses a total of RUB77bn. Customers in the SME sector accounted for 92% of business loans.

As is traditional, the February edition of The Banker magazine includes an analysis of the Russian banking sector. It gives a positive assessment, reporting that the sector is sufficiently stable. The Banker also published its traditional ranking of Russian banks. This year, thanks to its work with the real economy, Center-invest Bank ranks among Russia’s top 15 banks.

In the last six months, solar panels installed at Center-invest Bank’s head office have generated 4,500kW of clean energy. This has been used to power the terminals in the bank’s 24/7 self-service zone.

Preferential loans made by Center-invest Bank under its own loan programmes and government-subsidised programmes have helped save over 5300 jobs in southern Russia.

A new charitable project, “Lighthouse in Joy”, has been launched in Rostov-on-Don. In partnership with Center-invest Bank, the Lighthouse Lecture Centre is providing livestreamed city tours for wards of the Old Age in Joy Foundation from across Russia.

In November 2020 the Nechitailo Museum in Salsk became a partner for Center-invest Bank’s “Southern Russia’s Artistic Heritage” programme. With financial support from the bank, the museum runs an excursion programme for its "Don Artists” exhibition.

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.