Digitalization of Sovcombank

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2022

Rent a smart office in St. Petersburg for IT specialists

On September 2, 2022, Sovcombank announced that it had rented office space for 290 jobs at SOK Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg. It will employ employees of a subsidiary of Sovcombank Technologies Bank.

SOK Dostoevsky is a technological workspace in the center of St. Petersburg, equipped with advanced engineering solutions. The premises have microclimate monitoring systems that track CO2 levels, humidity, dust content and 10 more air quality control indicators.

We are actively developing our IT centers in large cities of the country, as of September 2022, more than 80% of IT specialists in the Sovcombank group work in such centers outside the capital. Here we organize offices for staff to work comfortably, interact and just communicate. Our specialists get the opportunity to work and grow in their hometown in office spaces that are not inferior to the capital. The smart office in St. Petersburg is already open, in the future we plan to expand our partnership with SOK in other cities, told Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sovcombank Albert Boris.

The deal with Sovcombank is a confirmation that for a technological company the comfort of its employees and the provision of a high-quality working space is of great importance. SOK constantly works on the quality of service, monitors trends in the office space market and offers customers the most optimal solutions, commented on the managing partner of the network of smart offices SOK Irek Allayarov.

Turning off Apple Pay and Google Pay

At the end of February 2022, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced that Apple Pay and Google Pay were being disabled from users of VTB, Sovcombank, Promsvyazbank and Otkritie due to US sanctions. The latter were introduced due to the start of the military operation of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. Read more here.

Sovcombank in a year created one of the largest IT insourcers in the Russian market

In about a year, Sovcombank gathered a team of about 2 thousand employees in its new insourcing company - "[[Sovcombank Technologies]." According to the number of staff, Sovcombank Technologies can be called one of the largest IT-insourcing companies in Russia, according to the TAdviser ranking. Read more here.

Opening of co-working space in Antalya

In early 2022, it became known that the new coworking space of the bank was located in the 5 * Nirvana Cosmopolitan hotel in Antalya, Turkey. Guests can enjoy round-the-clock meals with Ultra all inclusive package, gym, sports grounds, spa, water park, etc. Coworking employees work for four days as an experiment, and then rest for three days and go on excursions. At the same time, the bank pays for employees flight in both directions, accommodation and medical insurance. During the year, this coworking area should be visited by about 1000 people from the back office of the bank and its subsidiary Sovcombank Technologies.

2021: Plan to invest 1 billion rubles in the creation of an R&D center in Skolkovo

Sovcombank will invest 1 billion rubles in the creation of R&D a center on the territory. Skolkovo This was reported on May 26, 2021 in. Skolkovo Foundation

The R&D Center is created as part of an indefinite partnership agreement between the Skolkovo Foundation (ВЭБ.РФ Group) and Sovcombank. It is planned that by 2024 the center will employ about 1,500 people. The main areas of activity of the R&D Center will be technological support for the launch of products and services within the framework of the Halva smart shopping ecosystem, creating tools for working in investment and financial markets using data analysis and artificial intelligence technologies, developing the direction of biometric identification of clients in mobile applications, optimizing the processes of financial sector enterprises by using robotization technologies, as well as creating methods and technologies for data analysis to ensure information security and counteract fraud in the financial sector.

"We are pleased to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with Sovcombank, one of the active M&A players in the financial market. Skolkovo Innovation Center The R&D center Sovcombank-Technologies will be located on the territory, which, together with our startups scientists, will create technological business solutions, "said Pavel Novikov the Director of the Competence Center FinTech & Blockchain Skolkovo Foundation.

Experts of the Skolkovo Foundation launched a digital checkup of Sovcombank. Based on its results, key needs will be identified within the technological blocks of the bank and the development of Skolkov startups will be proposed.

2020

Launch of remote mortgage issuance

On May 27, 2020, Sovcombank announced the start of issuing mortgage credits for purchase real estate on the primary market remotely. The entire process from mortgage application review to loan issuance takes place without visiting the office using enhanced qualified. electronic signatures

In May, the bank conducted the first transaction in a remote format. The loan was issued for the purchase of an apartment under an equity agreement in St. Petersburg (Glorax Development Group of Companies - English Mile residential complex).

The process of remote signing of mortgage transactions has been put into commercial operation and is available not only to existing, but also to potential clients of Sovcombank.

After piloting, we are ready to issue mortgage loans in the primary market completely in a remote format - this is a necessary step so that customers for whom this is important can conduct mortgage transactions without leaving home, said Sergey Khotimsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sovcombank

Connecting to the Digital Profile service

On May 21, 2020, Sovcombank announced the connection to the Digital Profile service, which was put into commercial operation by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and the Bank of Russia.

The service will allow citizens to remotely apply for loans on the Sovcombank website by providing the bank with data on the borrower from the "digital profile" from the State Public services website. At the first stage, Sovcombank customers will have the option of submitting applications for cash loans.

"Digital Profile" is a service through which financial organizations can receive the necessary information stored about citizens in various databases (FTS, Rosreestr, Ministry of Internal Affairs, FIU and others). Thus, remote interaction between customers and banks will be implemented without the need for additional submission of documents. It is extremely important that such information can be obtained only with the consent of the client, which is stored in a single register of digital consents.

It is extremely important for us to be at the forefront of innovations in the field of client service, which will simplify the relationship between the bank and the client on both sides. The "digital profile" service in this regard is special, since it allows customers to easily apply for loans without visiting the office and collecting documents, and the bank to receive reliable and up-to-date information about the borrower's credit quality. In the future, this service may become a key driver for increasing the digitalization of bank customers, and, thus, the landscape and infrastructure of the retail business of banks will undergo significant changes commented on the connection to the service deputy. Chairman of the Board of Sovcombank Alexey Panferov.

Digitalization projects in Sovcombank

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