OREANDA-NEWS. September 06, 2010. According to the ratings published by the RBC.Rating Agency, Sviaz-Bank placed 20th among the Top 500 banks in net assets on July 1, 2010, with assets of 206.2billion rubles,* or 10.96% more than it had in the same period of last year, enough to move the Bank one line up in the Agency’s rankings, reported the press-centre of Sviaz-Bank.

The Bank owes the growth in its assets in the first six months of 2010 mostly to an increase in lending to its corporate customers and in the portfolio of loans made to individuals, and also to the introduction of new lending programs.

*The figures given above were calculated by the RBC.Rating Agency’s methodology and may differ from the Bank’s own official statistics using the methodology of the Bank of Russia.