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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”.
16.12.2009
Center-Invest Bank’s new social project helps pensioners save energy and money
On 15th December, Center-Invest Bank launched a new social project. All 130 of our branches (in the Rostov region, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, and the Volgograd region) are now giving out Philips energy-saving light bulbs as free gifts for depositors who receive their pensions through Center-Invest.
26.11.2009
The Central Bank has included Center-Invest's bonds in its list of reliable guarantees.
Center-Invest Bank's bonds have been included in the Central Bank of Russia's updated Lombard List.
(http://www.cbr.ru/analytics/standart_system/print.asp?file=list_lomb.htm)
19.11.2009
Post-crisis loans for Center-Invest Bank customers
On 19 November, in Frankfurt, Center-Invest Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC, member of the World Bank Group) signed an agreement opening two five-year credit lines: RUR600m for lending to SMEs in the agrarian sector, and RUR300m for financing housing and communal services energy efficiency projects. Under the agreement, IFC has also opened a USD10m trade finance guarantee facility to expand the foreign trade operations of Center-Invest’s SME customers in southern Russia.