OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2010. Figures published in November by popular Russian business weekly Kommersant-Dengi show Uniastrum Bank’s retail loan portfolio tipping the scales at near Rb 19 bn as of October 1, 2010, reported the press-centre of Uniastrum Bank.

Total unsecured loans disbursed by Uniastrum surged 60% between year-start 2010 and October 1, 2010, totaling Rb 5.7 bn.

Results for 9M10 released by Finance magazine rank the lender among Russia’s 20 biggest banks by the number of payment card issues. As of October 1, 2010 Uniastrum gave out more than 760,000 cards, including around 80,000 bank cards with planned overdrafts. Meantime, Uniastrum’s total portfolio for this product expanded a healthy 65%, weighing in at over Rb 2.8 bn YTD.

Uniastrum Bank’s in-house network of self-service automated kiosks numbered 773 as of October 1, 2010, including 669 ATMs and 104 payment terminals with deposit function. The Bank currently has some 1,050 terminals sited in sales and service outlets. Since 2008 Uniastrum has been a member of the United Settlement System, which integrates around 8,500 ATMs. Based on H110 results published by news agency RosBusinessConsulting, Uniastrum is one of Russia’s 20 biggest banks by the total number of in-house ATMs and the 8th biggest by the number of ATMs deployed in Moscow.

“Uniastrum Bank plans to forge ahead with upsizing its retail-side operations by broadening its range of innovative products, improving the quality of its services, and fine-tuning sales procedures,” says Eugene Tutkevich, Chairman of Uniastrum’s Management Board. “In 2011 we aim to enlarge our credit card and personal loan portfolios 50%.”