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On June 3 in Moscow a meeting was held between Russian banks, which are the partners of German Bank for Development KfW, and Chairman of the Executive Board of KfW Hans Reich and a member of the Board of KfW banking group Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, on October 1 of 2006 Mrs. Matthäus-Maier will take the chair of the Executive Board of Kfw banking group. Journalists representing leading mass media of Germany also took part in the meeting: Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland, die Zeit, WirschaftsWoche, Frankfurter Rundschau, Business Report, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Börsen–Zeitung.

On May 17-19 in Munich (Germany) the 4th International economic forum “Krasnodarsky krai days in Germany”. During this forum Center-invest bank and RaiffeisenLandesbank Oberösterreich (RLB OÖ, Upper Austria) presented project “European Union – Russia: cooperation between SMEs”.

Center-invest Bank became much closer to its customers! Four new offices of the Bank at once have been opened in April: two of them in Rostov-on-Don, one in Veseliy and in Veshenskaya. Now in a couple of steps away from your home you can be granted a full range of banking services of European quality both for your family and enterprise!

Web-site RBC.ru has published rating “TOP-500 of regional banks in 2005”. Center-invest Bank took the 23rd position of the rating by the amount of net assets. According to the information of RBC as of 01.01.06 Center-invest Bank’s net assets exceeded RUR 12.7 billion while the growth amounted to over 58%.

On April 7 Center-invest Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC – a investment branch of World Bank group) have signed an agreement on granting a credit line to the Rostov Bank to the amount of USD 4 million for financing projects of energy-efficiency sphere.

On April 6 a meeting of the Board of Directors of the largest enterprises of Rostov-on-Don and heads of departments of City Administration took place in Center-invest Bank. Specifically for the directors of the city enterprises the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank professor Vasily V. Vysokov, doctor in economics, presented a program named “Stimulating of investments into energy-saving”.

Center-invest Bank offered a new lending program – “Loans under guarantees” – to the entrepreneurs of the South of Russia.

On March 23 representatives of Metso Lindemann GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany), which is one of the largest world producers of equipment for reprocessing of metal and domestic wastes. This visit to the Don capital was organized by Center-invest Bank within the framework of the program for the enterprises support “New industrialization of the South of Russia”.