OREANDA-NEWS. March 15, 2011. Sviaz-Bank has placed 18th among the Top 20 biggest and most popular Russian banks most spoken and written about for their 2010 performance* in the rankings of the Bankir.ru News Agency, reported the press-centre of Sviaz-Bank.

The Agency writes about the growing weight of state-owned banks in the Russian banking system in both their assets and profits and the attention they are drawing from the media.

*The rankings were prepared by the Bankir.ru News Agency on the basis of the SCAN database (www.scan-interfax.ru) covering 3,500 newspapers, magazines, news agencies, and other media.