The Strategy of Bank Center-invest is to offer the widest range of services to individuals and corporate clients of the South of Russia in accordance with international standards requirements on the basis of modern banking technologies.

Bank Center-invest is your reliable partner in the South of Russia. Among shareholders of the Bank are: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Deutsche Entwicklung Gesellschaft, Raiffeisen Landesbank Ober?sterreich, Firebird Investment Fund.

Bank Center-invest has expanded branch network consisting of 90 branches, additional offices and cash desks in Rostov, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.

Bank Center-invest is the leader among local banks in the Rostov region by key financial indicators. It concentrates more than one third of local banks' total capital, over 40% of assets, loans and deposits. The characteristic feature of Bank Center-invest is steady development.

Bank Center-invest gained a reputation of "the lab for economic reforms" in the South of Russia due to continuous introduction of technological innovations.

Bank Center-invest entered TOP-100 of the largest Russian banks and took the following positions:

  • 77th by net assets
  • 76th by equity
  • 78th by loan portfolio
  • 59th by loans to individuals
  • 68th by loans to enterprises
  • 44th by equity efficiency
  • 28th by number of branches
  • 23rd among regional banks

One of the leading international rating agencies Moody's Investor's Services has assigned Bank Center-invest a credit rating B1 for long-term foreign deposits with stable outlook and Moody's Interfax Rating Agency has assigned the Bank a credit rating A2.ru according to national scale that demonstrates the above average level of creditworthiness of issuers and debt instruments in Russia.

In 2005 ex-president of Deutsche Bundesbank Ernst Welteke was elected a member of the Board of Directors as an Iindependent director of Bank Center-invest. He guarantees the transparency of Bank's activities to the customers, shareholders and staff of Bank Center-invest and ensures making independent decisions.

For ten years PricewaterhouseCoopers has been auditing Bank Center-invest in accordance with international financial reporting standards.

Bank Center-invest worked out the Corporate Governance Code with the assistance of IFC, EBRD and SECO.

Bank Center-invest successfully cooperates with international financial institutions: EBRD, DEG, United State Agency for International Development (USAID), International Finance Corporation (IFC), KfW Entwicklungsbank, Raiffeisen Landesbank, Commerzbank, HERMES, SIMEST, SACE, and other largest banks from the USA and Europe.

In 2005 Bank Center-invest was granted a syndicated loan to the amount of RUR 1 billion (Mandate Lead Arranger is Raiffeisen Landesbank Ober?sterreich) and a loan to the amount of USD 45 Mio. (Mandate Lead Arranger is EBRD) in 2006.

We are willing to cooperate with you!