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05.05.2010

Shareholders approve Center-Invest Bank's results for 2009.

Center-Invest Bank held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 5 May 2010.

The main outcome of 2009 was that Center-Invest's sustainable banking model successfully passed the latest stress test posed by the global economic crisis: as a sustainable banking business, we focused not on instantaneous profits, but rather on long-term gain for the benefit of our shareholders, customers and partners.

Chairman of the Center-Invest Bank Executive Board, Anna Shtabnova, presented the bank's results for 2009 to our shareholders.

09.04.2010

Center-Invest Bank is the leader for SME Lending

RosBusinessConsulting (RBC.ru) has published its annual rating “The Leading Banks in the SME Lending Market”, based on performance in 2009.

10.03.2010

Center-Invest Bank - the leader in SME lending

In 2009, in terms of the number of loans it issued to SMEs, Center-Invest was the top performing bank in the Rostov Region SME Development Pro-gramme. We provided SMEs with 4169 loans totalling RUR15.7bn.

09.03.2010

Center-Invest brings together the agribusiness sectors of southern Russia and Upper Austria.

On 2 March, Center-Invest Bank's head office in Rostov hosted a networking meeting for agriculturalists from the Don region and Austria. The event was held as part of an Austrian agricultural trade mission to southern Russia organised by Center-Invest Bank, the Austrian bank Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG (RLB Oö), and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Russia.

01.03.2010

Don entrepreneurs are to write an online textbook for Russian schoolchildren.

As part of the Enterprise for All programme, Center-Invest Bank has initiated a project to develop an online textbook on the principles of enterprise for schoolchildren in the Rostov region and southern Russia.

10.02.2010

Teploenergo and the EBRD: EUR10m invested in infrastructure and the environment in Taganrog, the birthplace of Chekhov

Teploenergo has completed an investment programme to upgrade its heating infrastructure in the city of Taganrog. Total investment in the project was RUR354m: RUR133m was contributed by the European Bank for Regional Development (EBRD) to the company's registered capital in 2007, and RUR221m was provided in 2008 as a ten-year EBRD loan.

01.02.2010

The successful performance of Center-Invest Bank's bonds on the stock market is reducing the cost of credit for our customers.

Center-Invest Bank has reviewed the performance of its second bond issue in the first six months since listing. The 5-year bond issue raised RUR3bn.

28.12.2009

Center-invest Bank is the leader of the year!

According to the rating “Leader of the year 2009” published in the local newspaper Gorod N (issue №50(859) dated 28.12.09), Center-invest Bank has become the most successful company of the year, and Dr.Vasily Vysokov, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJS Bank Center-invest, becomes the leader in the nominations “Successful business owner of the year 2009” and “Influential businessman of the year 2009”.