Ring of Ural Design Bureau

Bank Ring of the Urals is a universal credit institution that provides a wide range of financial services to the population and legal entities.

History

2022: Ex-head of the city Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Trifonov sentenced to 9.5 years in prison for a bribe from a bank

The Yekaterinburg court in August 2022 sentenced the former head of the city Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Trifonov to nine and a half years in prison in a maximum security colony for receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Trifonov was deprived of the rank of general, state awards and the right to serve in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, the arrest imposed earlier on Trifonov's property, the court decided to remove.

He was detained in September 2020 in Moscow and accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 7.5 million rubles. from an ex-employee of the Ring of the Urals bank in 2015 for initiating proceedings against the debtor.

In addition to him, the ex-head of the security service of the Ring of the Urals bank Alexander Cuba and the former employee of the OEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Zhdanov were held in the same case. They were accused of mediating the transfer of bribes on an especially large scale. The court released them from liability in connection with the admission of guilt. Cuba and Zhdanov faced up to 12 years in prison.

2021

Ex-deputy chairman of the bank Oleg Konoplev sentenced to 5 years probation for a bribe to the general of the Internal Affairs Directorate

Former deputy chairman of the Ring of the Urals bank Oleg Konoplev in September 2021 was sentenced to a five-year suspended sentence for a bribe. The court found the man guilty  of transferring 7.5 million rubles to the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg, General Igor Trifonov.

The crime was committed in 2015, when, through a subordinate of Trifonov, Konoplev gave a bribe for initiating a criminal case related to a bank loan.

The Ring of the Urals Bank gave a loan to Fores LLC 460 million rubles secured by the building. Later it turned out that the money was withdrawn for other purposes.

Closing the transaction on the sale of the Ring of the Urals to the Moscow Credit Bank for 3.9 billion rubles

In April 2021, the Rossium concern announced the amount of the transaction for the purchase of the Ring of the Urals Bank (Yekaterinburg) - 3.9 billion rubles or 0.9 capital. In December, Moscow Credit Bank, owned by Rossium, filed a petition with the FAS to acquire the Ring of the Urals (then the capital was 5.7 billion rubles), after which the bank encountered difficulties during the quarter:

• in January, Rosfinmonitoring accused Ring of the Urals Bank of illegal financial transactions with issuing a loan to repay loans from other companies;
• at the end of January, the bank is being searched in the case of a bribe to the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate Igor Trifonov for initiating a case of theft of credit funds;
• the bank even had to publish official denials.

But the deal closed in March 2021, difficulties ceased, the bank's capital dropped to 4.3 billion rubles.

2020

Application to the FAS for the purchase of the bank "Moscow Credit Bank"

On December 2, 2020, it became known that Moscow Credit Bank (part of Roman Avdeev's Rossium concern) intends to acquire Ring of the Urals bank, part of the UMMC group .

Moscow Credit Bank buys Ring of the Urals. Photo source: Yandex.Maps

As reported Interfax by Moscow "," the "credit bank" sent Federal Antimonopoly Service to the petition for the acquisition of 100% of the shares of LLC KB "Ring of the Urals" "^[1]

The press service of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company clarified that the conditions under customer contracts remain unchanged, the integration of information systems of financial institutions will take place in stages. According to the general director and shareholder of UMMC Andrei Kozitsyn, MKB negotiations have been conducted since the beginning of 2020.

As a result of the planned transaction, we expect a synergistic effect, which should certainly affect the quality and availability of financial services to the clients of the Ring of the Urals. In turn, we are interested in continuing cooperation with the Ring of the Urals and the ICD, as one of the important partners of the group, - said the head of the UMMC.

First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the ICD Mikhail Polunin noted that the specialists of the "Ring of the Urals" have "expertise, which in the future will form the basis of transformations."

Thanks to the established customer relationship, we have the opportunity to develop customer loyalty and expand the range of services, "he added.

The press service notes that the Ring of the Urals will continue to serve the enterprises of the UMMC group and their employees.

More than 40 offices

As of November 2020, Ring of the Urals Bank is part of the UMMC group of companies, providing services for comprehensive financial services to organizations that are part of it. It has a developed infrastructure, including more than 40 offices, as well as more than 250 ATMs and self-service terminals located in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Kemerovo and Orenburg regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan, serves more than 16 thousand corporate and 280 thousand private clients, is included in the register of banks participating in the system of compulsory deposit insurance in banks of the Russian Federation - all deposits in the amount of up to 1.4 million rubles are insured by the state.

2010

Main activities

According to the information for 2010, the Commercial Bank "Ring of the Urals" offers clients - legal entities a comprehensive and high-quality service for the main types of banking activities:

• settlement and cash services, including through a remote account service system (Client - Bank, Internet - Bank systems);
• lending to enterprises and organizations of all forms of ownership (the Bank offers almost all types of loans in rubles and foreign currency);
• transactions with foreign currency, including: international settlements using the SWIFT system, foreign exchange control of foreign economic activity, provision of bank guarantees;
• transactions with securities (purchase and sale of own promissory notes and promissory notes of third-party issuers, storage of documentary securities);
• salary projects (use of bank cards when calculating and paying salaries to employees of the enterprise).

List of Bank's services for individual customers:

• opening and maintaining personal bank accounts in rubles and currency;
• term deposits in rubles and currency;
• settlements in rubles and hard currencies;
• issuance and maintenance of plastic cards of MasterCard international payment system;
• making transfers without opening a current account;
• instant translations using the Western Union system;
• placement of funds of individuals in the Bank's promissory notes;
• accrual and payment of wages using plastic cards.

About 30 branches and additional offices

As of March 2010, CB Ring of the Urals LLC has a complex territorial-distributed organizational structure - about 30 branches and additional offices - and offers clients (individuals and legal entities) comprehensive services for the main types of banking activities. He is an affiliated member of the international payment systems MasterCard International, Visa International.

The Bank is constantly expanding its range of presence (Kirov, Orenburg, Kemerovo, etc.). The development of new territories takes place in accordance with the geography of the enterprises of the strategic partner of the Bank - UMMC-Holding. These enterprises are often city-forming, requiring special attention in banking services. In addition to development in the regions, the bank is actively expanding in Yekaterinburg, attracting new customers.

High growth rates and serious prospects for further development require the introduction of modern solutions not only in the field of the main functional areas, but also in the field of supporting management decisions and processing semi-structured information (automation of document flow and the implementation of a business process management system).