OREANDA-NEWS. Sberbank’s digital banking was announced the winner in four nominations in the Global Finance award in Central and Eastern Europe. Sberbank won in the following nominations: Best in Mobile Banking, Best Bill Payment & Presentment, Best Information Security Initiatives and Best SMS/Text Banking

Among the key criteria that were used by the Global Finance‘s experts are: strategy of customer acquisition and client services, expansion of client base, capability of digital products and success in business development through online-services. This year, jury of Global Finance focused specially on mobile financial services. 

“By participating in the Global Finance awards  we are able to see and evaluate the position of our digital products on the international market. Sberbank has represented Russia as a leader in mobile banking, information security and online payments”, - Svyatoslav Ostrovsky, Head of “Bank XXI” Department at Sberbank commented. 

Sberbank tripled the number of active users of Sberbank Online mobile apps and introduced several new features. Furthermore, in 2015 Sberbank significantly increased security of digital products by releasing a unique Android application with a built-in antivirus. 

Sberbank is Russia’s largest bank and a leading global financial institution. Sberbank holds almost one third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is the founder and principal shareholder of Sberbank owning 50 % of the Bank's authorized capital plus one voting share, with the remaining 50 % held by domestic and international investors. Sberbank has more than 135 million individual customers and more than 1 million corporate clients in 22 countries. Sberbank has the largest distribution network in Russia with almost 17,000 branches, and its international operations include UK, US, CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and other countries.