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A Big Data Analysis Festival was held at Rostov State Economics University on 4 — 5 December 2018 as part of the II Open Russian Statistics Congress. Public lectures and masterclasses, an analytics competition, and a big data hackathon attracted over 500 students and young scientists from Russia and abroad.

A new group of residents began working with Center-invest Bank’s business accelerator on 21 November 2018. The 50 participants will spend a month attending seminars and masterclasses designed to help them increase their profitability and enter international markets.

19 November 2018 — The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) and Center-invest Bank (CIB) (Rostov on Don, Russia) are strengthening cooperation to increase access to local currency financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Russia. BSTDB extends its second RUR 1 billion loan to be used by CIB to support the SME sector development in Southern Russia. The proceeds of the loan will be used to finance expansion and modernization of the production capacity and purchase of new agricultural machinery of CIB’s corporate clients.

On 8 November 2018 Center-invest Bank opened a Financial Literacy Centre in the city of Volgodonsk. This is a joint socio-educational project in partnership with a local school, Lycée No. 24. As well as studying traditional core subjects, schoolchildren from Volgodonsk can now acquire basic financial literacy skills.

On 18 October 2018, at the FINOPOLIS forum in Sochi, twenty of Russia’s leading financial institutions and banks signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Moscow Exchange to jointly develop the Marketplace project. Center-invest Bank was among the signatories.

Center-invest Bank’s Board of Directors has approved the bank’s Strategy for 2019-2021 "ESG Digitalization of Center-invest Bank’s Ecosystem".

Thanks to a joint project by Center-invest Bank, the technology company INPAS, and Don State Technological University, visitors to Rostov Zoo can now purchase tickets from a robot cashier.

According to a VigeoEiris report Center-invest Bank ranks 17 among 76 leading European banks operating on the basis of models of environmental, social and corporate responsibility (ESG: Environment, Social and Governance).