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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.

The Bank of Russia has updated its list of banks with which other organisations may deposit pension funds and savings for housing provision for military personnel. Only 33 banks made it onto the list, including Center-invest Bank.

At the request of the Rostov Region local government and the Rostov-on-Don city administration, Dr Vysokov, chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank, gave a series of talks on current management problems to local civil servants. Dr Vysokov is also the chairman of the Commission for Economic Development, Enterprise and Innovation of the Rostov Region Public Chamber.

Center-invest Bank took third place in the “Social Project” category of the Banking Sector Awards held by the Russian monthly publication “Banking Review”. Assessing banks’ philanthropic activities and support for local communities, the competition organisers and judges deemed Center-invest Bank’s social and educational projects to be among the most effective.