OREANDA-NEWS. Otkritie FC Bank has been named Best Bank in Russia for outstanding financial performance, according to the CEE/CIS Bank Survey 2015 by bne IntelliNews.

bne IntelliNews has been ranking banks every year for more than half a decade, with help from Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings, which provide some of the figures, in addition to bne IntelliNews' own research. However, this year a new methodology was introduced, switching the focus from asset size to profitability as the crucial variable. Otkritie FC Bank with an ROE of 9.17% in the Russian A category of biggest banks.

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