OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 March 2009 was announced, that Joint Stock Commercial AK BARS Bank was acknowledged one of the major Russian banks in the final analysis of the year 2008. According to the data, published by RBC-Rating Agency, as per net assets the Bank takes the 20th place among 500 leading Russian banks.

Net assets of AK BARS Bank made up 210 774 mln RUR as of 01.01.09, which is 37,37% more than the indicator of the previous year – 153 436 mln RUR. Moreover, the Bank is one of the major financial institutions pursuant to such indicators as branch network, deposit portfolio and credit portfolio.