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The Financial Literacy Centre in Rostov-on-Don marked its first anniversary last month. The facility was set up by Center-invest Bank and the Southern Federal University in April 2014. In the past year it has improved the financial literacy of more than 5,000 Rostov residents.

Center-invest Bank was one of the judges for the regional stage of the national Enactus competition. Enactus is an international programme to encourage and support entrepreneurial student projects. With its experience of working with young people and start-up projects, Center-invest Bank was well placed to help select the competition winners.

Earlier this month experts from Center-invest Bank held master classes on corporate social responsibility and staff training and motivation for students at Kuban State Agrarian University and Kuban State Technological University.

Created in March 2013 with assistance from Center-invest Bank, the “Enterprise for All” portal provides free online training in the basics of entrepreneurship. More than 10,000 people have now registered on the portal, and 2,600 people have already finished the training course and received a certificate of completion.

The fourth “Bank Regional Strategies” conference was held in Rostov-on-Don on 10 April. Opening the conference, the editor in chief of the Expert Yug magazine, Vladimir Kozlov, said that banks have never before played such a large role in the Russian economy as they do today. While other experts were pessimistic about the prospects of regional banks, the chairman of the Executive Board of Center-invest Bank, Yuri Bogdanov, spoke about the results achieved by the bank through applying transformational banking principles.

Together with the company Clean City, Center-invest Bank is providing organisational support for the “Let’s Clean Up the City” social advertising competition launched on 13 April. The competition is an initiative of the Environmental Protection Committee of the Rostov-on-Don City Administration.

With support from the Rostov-on-Don City Administration and in partnership with local universities, Center-invest Bank has launched the third round of the “Project for My City” competition.

The Bank of Russia has included Center-invest Bank in its updated list of “significant banks in the Payment Systems Market”¹. There are 51 banks on the list.