OREANDA-NEWS. November 19, 2012. MDM Bank has announced the appointment of Dmitriy Bikman as Head of the Cards Business Development Division at MDM Bank’s Retail Business Development Department. In this position, Dmitriy Bikman will lead the development of the plastic card product lines, designing supplementary services, bank rate policy formation, partnership programs development and increasing the card sales volumes.

Dmitriy Bikman has significant experience in the sphere of banking card business development. Prior to joining MDM Bank, Dmitriy was the product division head of the VTB24 plastic card department, where he supervised product development and managed the card portfolio.

From 2008 to 2012, Dmitriy Bikman worked at Citibank (Russia), where at different times he held various management positions: the head of the division responsible for profitability increase and credit card portfolio analysis, the head of operating risks analysis and the problem asset analysis division.

In 2007-08, Dmitriy Bikman developed, implemented and ran support services in the sphere of electronic document workflow at the VSK insurance company. In 2006-07, he was involved in the software product development for electronic trading at the US financial markets.

Dmitriy Bikman has two degrees from the Moscow Stated Institute for Electronics and Mathematics — in management and environmental law.

Alla Tsytovich, MDM Bank’s Vice President for Business Development, commented: “Dmitriy Bikman has extensive experience in card product development. We are very glad that Dmitriy has joined the Bank’s team, and we believe that his expertise will help us to move to the next level in card services, and to offer to our customers new extra benefits of using our plastic cards.”

“I am very pleased to become a part of MDM Bank’s team,” Dmitriy Bikman, the new Head of MDM Bank’s Card Business Development, said. “The current development level of banking technologies ensures unlimited opportunities for banks to provide customers with convenient, secure and modern services with a wide range of options. MDM Bank has a large potential and vast resources in this area.”