SberCIB

SberCIB - a dedicated business segment as part of the corporate investment block of Sberbank, which works with major customers. As of 2022, this business area provides a wide range of financial solutions: from traditional lending to mezzanine and equity financing, as well as hedging foreign exchange, interest and commodity risks, operations in financial markets with access to international platforms, investment analytics and transaction support.

History

2019

CIB Business Trends

Sberbank CIB is a corporate investment business of Sberbank of Russia. The key areas of activity are corporate lending (including trade finance), documentary business, investment banking services, trading operations with securities, and own investments. Sberbank CIB provides its clients, including major corporations, financial institutions, states, federal and subfederal authorities and organizations, integrated financial solutions and financial advisor services.

• Replacing traders with algorithms
• Changing Customer Needs for Quality and Speed of Service Delivery
• Customer's desire to use the bank's expertise (know how)
• Tighter regulation

Funding of PPF group structures

On January 24, 2019, it became known that Sberbank provided financing to the structures of the international investment group PPF, the exact amount of which is not disclosed. The funds were allocated for the purchase of the Nevsky Center shopping complex in St. Petersburg, worth 171 million euros. More details here.

2018

Launch of the sowing fund project

Sberbank CIB, Sberbank's corporate and investment business, announced on August 30, 2018 the launch of the project to create the first Russian Investment Fund for investments in the preparation of infrastructure projects. The fund will invest in the preparation, justification, launch and support of public-private partnership projects and concessions, starting from the formation of the project until the conclusion of an agreement with the investor on the implementation of the project. More details here.

Integration of Corporate Business and Sberbank CIB

On August 22, 2018, Sberbank announced its decision to integrate the Corporate Business and Corporate Investment Business (Sberbank CIB) blocks working with corporate customers. Integration is planned to be completed by the end of 2018. According to the bank's expectations, this will make it possible to form a single technological, management and product platform for working with customers, to obtain a significant synergistic effect for further optimization of working with customers of the corporate sector.

As a result of the integration, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank Anatoly Popov, head of the Corporate Business block, will coordinate the work of the Sberbank CIB block. In turn, the heads of Sberbank CIB - senior vice presidents of the bank Alexander Bazarov and Igor Bulantsev - will continue their activities in their current positions under the leadership of Anatoly Popov.

First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board Alexander Vedyakhin will continue to oversee the activities of the entire corporate business of the bank.

The decision to integrate corporate business blocks under the leadership of Anatoly Popov is an important step in the technological transformation of the bank, which will allow introducing modern technologies and practices into the service of our customers, improving customer experience, uniting the product factories of both blocks. I am sure that the updated management structure will provide seamless service for all client groups of corporate clients, "commented German Gref, President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank.

According to August 2018, Sberbank's Corporate Business block serves legal entities in the segments of small and microbusiness, medium and large businesses, as well as clients of the regional public sector. Provides corporate customers with banking, credit, cash placement and partner services for business development.

In turn, Sberbank CIB works with major corporations, financial institutions, the state, federal and subfederal authorities and organizations. Provides its customers with integrated financial solutions and financial advisor services. The key areas of activity of the block are corporate lending (including trade finance), documentary business, investment banking services, trading operations with securities, and own investments.

Loans to Sberbank CIB's largest customers will be issued by the robot

On July 31, 2018, Sberbank announced the launch by the corporate investment business Sberbank CIB of a project on robotic automation of credit agreements with major corporate customers. At the initial stage, the project is being implemented inside Sberbank CIB, before September 1, 2018, the operation of the algorithm on industrial data will begin.

Sberbank CIB robotic credit processing

A software robot with a working name iCredo optimizes the work of Sberbank CIB employees with credit agreements of the largest customers. The robot is a joint development of the development department and the lending department of Sberbank CIB, the CIB Support Center of the Technologies block and the Sberbank Process Robotization Laboratory.

According to developers, the use of the iCredo software robot will reduce the time for establishing loan agreements in Sberbank's systems by 2.5 times, minimizing human-related errors and, as a result, reducing the bank's operating expenses.

Automation of routine business processes allows bank employees to focus on individual customer work. At the moment, the iCredo is used in the execution of loan agreements for the largest corporate clients of Sberbank CIB, in the future we plan to replicate it also to large and medium-sized businesses, "said Igor Bulantsev, senior vice president of Sberbank CIB.

Robotic process automation Robotic Process Automation(,) RPA improves efficiency by implementing algorithms to solve standardized problems. Using this technology, Sberbank opens accounts to legal entities, issues loans to individuals, processes executive documents and issues leave to employees. According to the bank, thanks to RPA, 75 thousand man-hours have already been saved.

On July 31, 2018 , it became known about the introduction of a robot collector in VTB, which will collect debts from bank customers.

The first bonds in Russia using smart contracts on the blockchain

In May 2018, MTS, the leading telecommunications operator in Russia, Sberbank CIB, the corporate investment business of Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository (NSD) placed Russia's first ruble commercial bonds using blockchain technology with the implementation of the full life cycle of the security in the form of a set of smart contracts - from placement to full fulfillment by the issuer of its obligations to the investor.

National Settlement Depositary provided its own blockchain platform based on Hyperledger Fabric 1.1 for the transaction. Sberbank CIB became the organizer and main buyer of the issue of MTS bonds for a period of 6 months in the amount of 750 million rubles. More details here.

2012: Sberbank closes Troika takeover deal

On January 23, 2012, Sberbank of the Russian Federation and Troika Dialog announced the closure of the merger transaction.

As part of the integration of Troika Dialog into the structure of Sberbank, a new business direction is being created: a corporate investment bank (CIB), which will provide services to the largest Russian and foreign corporations and financial institutions. CIB becomes part of the Corporate Business business block under the leadership of the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank. Russia Andrei Donskikh CIB co-heads appointed a member of the Management Board, Vice President of Sberbank of Russia, Director of the Department for Working with Major Customers Alexander Bazarov and CEO Troika Dialog. Ruben Vardanyan

The second line of business created by integration is Wealth Management. It includes investment products sales units to private clients, including asset management and Private Banking. Ruben Vardanyan, CEO of Troika Dialog, is also the head of all areas of the wealth management business, and Bella Zlatkis, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank of Russia, has been appointed curator of this business block.