Metallinvestbank

Metallinvestbank is a universal credit institution with strong market positions in the interbank and foreign exchange markets. The Bank's priority areas of activity are: comprehensive customer service, lending, issuing guarantees, factoring, providing a range of retail services, such as mortgage lending, car loans, all types of transactions with plastic cards and deposit deposits, as well as transactions with securities, foreign currency and derivatives.

Licenses of Metallinvestbank PJSC

• General License of the Bank of Russia No. 2440, dated 21.11.2014
• Licenses of a professional securities market participant (issued by the Federal Securities Commission) for:
• brokerage activity No. 177-02885-100000 dated 27.11.2000;
• dealership No. 177-02995-010000 dated 27.11.2000;
• depository activity No. 177-03970-000100 dated 15.12.2000;
• securities management activities No. 177-03093-001000 dated 27.11.2000;
• Certificate of inclusion of the Bank in the register of participants in the compulsory deposit insurance system No. 870 dated 26.08.2005

Performance indicators

2024: 7th place in terms of IT mortgage issuance

2014

In 2014, Metallinvestbank's net profit amounted to 329.5 million rubles against 760.4 million rubles a year earlier. The bank's assets reached 83.8 billion rubles.

History

2016: Hackers stole 677 million rubles

On March 5, 2016, it became known about a hacker hack of the IT system of PJSC JSCB Metallinvestbank, as a result of which hundreds of millions of rubles were stolen.

According to RIA Novosti, citing a law enforcement source, unknown criminals withdrew more than 677 million rubles from Metallinvestbank's accounts. The credit institution suspects that hackers could hack into the remote access system to the banking system and transfer funds to several controlled accounts issued to individuals, from where charges can be cashed.

Hackers robbed Metallinvestbank for 677 million rubles

According to the interlocutor of the agency, on the fact of a major theft of money, the administration of Metallinvestbank turned to the police. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow confirmed this appeal to RIA Novosti, but did not name the bank or the amount of damage.

"The police received a statement from a representative of one of the banks about the embezzlement of funds. Currently, the exact amount of material damage is being established. On this fact, a criminal case was initiated under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Theft," an investigation is underway, "the metropolitan police said[1]

As LifeNews clarifies, the chairman of the board of the financial institution addressed the law enforcement agencies about the robbery of Metallinvestbank on March 1, 2016.

According to the press service of Metallinvestbank, most of what was stolen was in blocked bank accounts by March 5, 2016. Some of the money has already been returned by banks.

None of the bank's customers were injured in the incident. Now all divisions of Metallinvestbank are operating normally. The bank has carried out a complete restructuring of the information security system, which guarantees the prevention of such incidents in the future, the credit institution said in a statement.[2]

In March 2016, the cybercrime investigation company Group-IB released a report from which it became known that hackers had stolen almost 2 billion rubles from Russian banks.

A cybercriminal group called Buhtrap has used a new virus that sends fake messages from the names of the Central Bank or its representatives. With its help, from August 2015 to February 2016, 13 hacks of banking systems were committed, including Metallinvestbank and Russian International Bank.

2010: Top 100 largest banks in Russia

Metallinvestbank's assets for 01.01.2010 amounted to 40,555 million rubles, Capital - 4,623 million rubles, profit - 674 million rubles. According to the largest independent information and analytical agencies, by 2010 JSC Metallinvestbank was one of the TOP-100 largest Russian banks. Moody's Investors Service, an international rating agency, has assigned the Bank a B2/Not Prime rating and a national Baa1 rating. The National Rating Agency has assigned the bank an individual rating corresponding to the A + reliability group - high creditworthiness, the first level.

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