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Center-invest Bank: Your Reliable Partner in Southern Russia

2008年10月20日

In October Center-invest Bank published its Q1-Q3 2008results. The financial statements were produced in accordance withInternational Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with which Center-investhas been working for the past twelve years.

Leadinginternational investors are already working with Сenter-Invest Bank: the EBRD, KfW,DEG, IFC, FMO. One of Europe's oldest savings banks, Erste Group (Austria),recently became a shareholder in Сenter-Invest.

Since thebeginning of 2008 Сenter-investBank has provided companies operating in the real economy with loans totallingRUR45.7bn. This includes more than RUR13.5bn in loans to SMEs. Thirty thousandsmall businesses and sole traders bank with Center-Invest.

Сenter-invest's customers are usingthe loans to upgrade their equipment, in part by installing energy efficienttechnology. The bank's energy efficiency loan portfolio is RUR1bn.

Сenter-invest's customers that havecarried out energy efficiency programmes have managed not only to modernizetheir equipment, but also to reduce theirenergy costs by 40-70%.

So far in2008 more than 3,000 new business accounts have been opened. (As at 01.10.08Center-Invest was managing 35 672 business accounts.)

The numberof retail depositors has risen: 334 000 residents of southern Russia bankwith Center-Invest, and 108,000 people are using MasterCard International andVisa International cards issued by the bank.

Center-invest'simproved financial performance is also due to the continuing expansion of itsbranch network. The bank opened a new office in the centre of Rostov-on-Don,the capital of the Southern Federal District,and another nine new branches are scheduled to open by the end of the year.

Key financialindicators (IFRS), RUR millions

 

01.01.01

01.01.02

01.01.03

01.01.04

01.01.05

1.01.06

01.01.07

01.01.08

01.07.08

01.10.08

Shareholders' equity

209.5

413.8

678.3

779.1

1140.8

2178.6

4187.8

5226.7

5462.8

5742.1

Assets

960.3

1635.3

3124.0

5257.3

8492.6

13637.2

23832.6

39461.1

44294.4

48549.8

Loans and leases

515.4

891.1

1928.0

3127.2

5323.6 

8202.2

15819.7

28723.3

34131.8

34229.6

Customers accounts

690.5

1072.7

1750.2

2904.9

4858.7

7727.1

12361.0

19245.1

20850.5

23037.1

Profit

(6.8)

3.9

14.2

93.5

131.1

305.7

513.3

700.9

393.8

673.1