OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2011. Profil (Profile) magazine has ranked Sviaz-Bank 13th among the top profit-earners in banking (as of November 1, 2010) – in the periodical’s estimate, the Bank had made a 4 billion rubles profit by the first day of November. This amount has helped the Bank to improve its standings on the top list of banks by four notches up from September 1 of this year.

The Bank has been listed among top 20 banks having the largest balances in the accounts of their corporate customers. With 67.3 billion rubles in corporate customer balances, the Bank moved 19notches up from its ranking in the previous period.

Sviaz-Bank has held on to its place in Profil’s rankings among the 200 biggest Russian banks in net assets as of November 1, 2010. With its 135.3 billion rubles in net assets, it is still in 27th place.

The Bank has been ranked 23rd among banks that have issued the largest amounts in loans to private companies (as of November 1, 2010), with 75.3 billion rubles in loans made in this category.

The rankings have been allocated by Profil using its own techniques and may differ from the Bank’s official statistics prepared by the techniques used by the Bank of Russia.