OREANDA-NEWS. Sberbank participated in Mobile Trade, an exhibition of the specialised international trade fair Import Substitution, which is being held from September 15-17 in Moscow.

Andrey Sharov, Vice President and Head of the Small Business Development Department at Sberbank, spoke at the round table on mobile trade.

"Sberbank is the primary settlement bank for clients who work in mobile trade, including representatives of small and medium business," said Andrey Sharov. "We offer our clients convenient solutions and are actively developing various online products. These solutions include the ability to add money to a legal entity's settlement account via Sberbank's ATMs and self-service devices, and a new corporate card with increased functionality. The former has been used by 85,000 entrepreneurs and is becoming more and more popular. In one month alone, more than 14 billion roubles have been deposited via our self-service devices."

Mr Sharov also talked about the inflow of small business clients to Sberbank and the popularity of the online settlement account reservation service."

"In July to August we welcomed 37,000 new small business clients," said Mr Sharov. "In terms of our online settlement account reservation service, 120,000 companies have used the service since it was launched 4-5 months ago. More than 90% of companies who open an account with Sberbank choose this option."