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Center-invest Bank hosted an ESG foresight session, attended by representatives of investment funds, audit and consulting firms, development institutions, the Russian Central Bank, the Moscow Exchange and banking associations, as well as shareholders, employees and customers of the bank.

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.