Banks

The Alfa Banking Group, which includes ABH Financial, AO «Alfa-Bank» and its subsidiaries, reported the IFRS financial results for the first half of 2017

Over seven months of 2017, Sberbank has provided 1.017 tln roubles in retail loans. This amount can be divided almost equally into mortgage and consumer lending – 47% and 48% respectively.

Sberbank CIB, the corporate and investment banking business of Sberbank, has opened a four-year credit line worth 10 billion roubles for JSC Leasing Company Europlan.

NAB awarded “Best Industry Specialisation” National Australia Bank has been named “Best Industry Specialisation” in the Australian Business Banking Awards*

Belarusian banks install IBA Group’s currency exchange terminals with coin hopper

Rabobank posted a net profit of EUR 1,516 million in the first half of 2017 (+52%). The common equity tier 1 ratio increased strongly from 13.5% to 14.7% (fully loaded), due partly to the issuance of Rabobank Certificates

All Sberbank clients who hold Visa Electron bank cards will be able to pay for purchases using Samsung Pay installed on their smartphones.

Holders of Sberbank’s Visa Electron cards can now use their smartphones to make purchases using Android Pay.

The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and state-owned PrivatBank have signed a memorandum of cooperation enabling to use the Bank’s IT capabilities to create an integrated verification system for social payments in Ukraine.

Sberbank announces the launch of Apple Pay, an easy and secure personal payment method, for Visa Electron cardholders.

The PrivatBank Supervisory Board has appointed Galyna Pakhachuk as acting Chairman of the Bank’s Management Board.