Bank Center-Invest

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Financial performance

2024: Net profit halved

As TAdviser found out in mid-November 2025, the net profit of Center-Invest Bank in 2024 amounted to 1.82 billion rubles. This is 2.2 times less than the previous year, when the figure reached 4.08 billion rubles.

The capital of the credit institution on an annualized basis increased by 5% - to 21.7 billion rubles. The return on capital was 8.61%, the return on assets was 1.36%. The size of the bank's assets rose by 11%, reaching 141.3 billion rubles. Net loan debt, estimated at amortised cost, is indicated in the amount of 125.8 billion rubles, which is 12% more than in 2023.

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Interest income of Center-Invest Bank in 2024 increased by 43% compared to 2023 - to 17.5 billion rubles. At the same time, interest expenses more than doubled, reaching 11 billion rubles. Thus, net interest income (before provisions) in 2024 decreased by 5.6%, to 6.5 billion rubles. Net interest income (after the creation of a provision for possible losses) decreased by 15.8%, being at the level of 6.2 billion rubles. Operating expenses (including deposit insurance costs) increased by 10.4% to 5.5 billion rubles.

As of December 31, 2024, the bank's loan portfolio is indicated in the amount of 126.7 billion rubles, which is 12% more than in the previous year. The share of retail lending in the total portfolio was 67%, loans to small and medium-sized businesses - 29%, corporate lending - 4%.

The volume of customer funds by the end of 2024 reached 114.3 billion rubles, an increase of about 13% compared to 2023. At the same time, the funds of legal entities accounted for 25.77 billion rubles, the funds of individuals and individual entrepreneurs - 87.57 billion rubles.^[1]

2011-2012

At the beginning of 2012, the Bank's capital amounted to 6.7 billion rubles, assets reached 54.5 billion rubles. In 2011, a profit of more than 900 million rubles was received.

Aktivs

The bank is one of the largest banks in the Rostov region, 01.04.2012 accounts for more than half of the total capital, over 79% of loans and almost 77% of deposits of Don banks.

The branch network of Center-Invest Bank includes 140 offices in the Rostov and Volgograd regions, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, as well as representative offices in Moscow and London.

History

Center-Invest Bank was created in 1992 by the heads of the first privatized enterprises of the South of Russia and a team of university teachers in Rostov-on-Don and since its inception has developed as a universal financial institution, increasing the resource base and assets, expanding the branch network.

Since 1997, Centre-Invest has been audited under PricewaterhouseCoopers International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

In 2000, Center-Invest Bank began issuing its own international-style bank cards.

In 2004, the EBRD became a shareholder of the bank.

In 2005, Ernst Velteke, ex-chairman of Deutsche Bundesbank, became the independent director of Center-Invest Bank. It guarantees the bank's clients, employees and shareholders transparency and ensures independent decision-making. In the same year, the German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG) became a shareholder of the bank. Center-Invest was the first in the South of Russia to receive an international credit rating from Moody's.

Since 2006, Center-Invest Bank has been implementing the South of Russia + strategy aimed at developing a branch network in the South of Russia, services, products and operations of Center-Invest Bank based on SAP for Banking.

In 2010, Center-Invest Bank successfully implemented the South of Russia + Strategy and the South of Russia Against the Global Crisis program.

The Board of Directors of CB Center-Invest OJSC approved the new Development Strategy of the Bank for 2011-2015 "Post-Crisis Development of the South of Russia." The new strategy involves the further sustainable development of the bank and the economy of the South of Russia, income growth, key financial indicators and an increase in the business efficiency of clients of Center-Invest Bank, based on a modernization model using the best world practice and increasing competitiveness in the global economy. The Bank will develop its activities in the South of Russia using its experience in financing energy efficiency projects, small businesses, agribusiness, as well as lending and implementing social programs to improve the quality of life in the South of Russia, including through public-private partnerships.

2019: Bank client sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for mortgage fraud

In November 2019, it became known that on the basis of a statement by Center-Invest Bank to the FSB, the Krasnodar court sentenced the bank's mortgage client to one and a half years in prison, the press service of the regional FSB department reports.

In December 2014, a man signed a loan agreement with Center-Invest Bank for the purchase of an apartment in Krasnodar with an area of ​ ​ 128 square meters. meters. After the transaction, Krasnodar, through the regional department of the Federal Service for State Registration of Cadastre and Cartography, managed to remove the encumbrance from the apartment and sold it to third parties.

The FSB reports that he stopped repaying the loan, and the Center-Invest bank suffered damage of 5 million rubles.

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