OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2009. The Russian Bank for Development (RBD) has appreciated ITB’s activities and extended its gratitude for the Bank’s participation in the governmental program for financial support of small and medium-sized business, reported the press-centre of ITB.

In the framework of the first tranche, provided by RBD in the framework of the governmental program for financial support of small and medium-sized businesses, ITB has already extended a number of loans to enterprises of the Volgograd, Ivanovo, Penza, Saratov and Yaroslavl regions.

Currently ITB provides lending to small and medium-sized businesses in the framework of the second tranche for enterprises of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Kostroma, Rostov, Sverdlovsk regions and the Republic of Dagestan.