OREANDA-NEWS. May 21, 2012. AS “PrivatBank” has presented an updated version of Privat24 Internet Bank, which is open for all customers in Latvia and other European countries – Italy, Portugal, and Germany. As informed by AS “PrivatBank”, the new version offers expanded possibilities for automatic payment of public utilities and other bills, new functions for management of accounts and cards. Moreover, new means of protection and additional identifiers for user authorisation are applied, making the Internet Bank even more secure.

“The transition to the new version of Privat24 website allowed to make our electronic banking service more intuitive and convenient for the users,” said Oleksandr Trubakov, Member of AS “PrivatBank” Board. “What is most important, applying the most modern methods of protection allows to ensure a practically 100% guarantee of security while providing bank services via the Internet”.

The new version of Privat24 Internet Bank is based on a unified global platform, which operates in all countries where PrivatBank banking group is represented. From 1 June 2012 only the new version of Privat24 will be available to all customers in Latvia and other European countries.

AS "PrivatBank" is a member of PrivatBank, an international banking group serving more than 22 million corporate and individual customers in 12 countries of the world – Russia, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Italy, Portugal, China, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Germany, Spain, and Kazakhstan. In 2011, PrivatBank took the 369th position in the Top 1000 World Banks rating of the British magazine The Banker, as compared to the 416th position in 2010. Currently AS "PrivatBank" is ranked in the 13th position among 31 Latvian banks.