OREANDA-NEWS. Data for Center-invest Bank's 3rd quarter shows that it achieved balanced growth for all of its indicators and continued to promote the sustainable development of southern Russia.

In the first nine months of 2014:

Business and retail lending totalled RUB75bn.

Center-invest Bank lent a total of RUB51.5bn to 4,391 SMEs.

The bank made 28,820 retail loans for a total of RUB12.4bn, and also lent RUB1.9bn in bank card overdrafts. Our efforts to expand bank card lending have delivered growth of 106.5% since the start of the year.

Retail customer deposits amounted to RUB38.4bn.

Center-invest Bank was one of the partners for the XII International Banking Forum held in Sochi on 3-6 September. The bank organised a round table on "The Sustainable Development Strategies and Models of Financial Market Participants." During the event, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Center-invest Bank, Dr Vasily Vysokov, presented his new book, "Transformational Banking: made in Russia".

The bank was among the winners of two regional competitions: "The Best Goods of Krasnodar Krai" (SME banking services) and "The Best Goods of the Rostov Region" (retail banking services).