Russlavbank

AKB RUSSLAVBANK (ZAO) is one of the oldest participants in the Russian banking services market, specializing in servicing individuals (residents and non-residents), individual entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses.

RUSSLAVBANK operates in accordance with the Bank of Russia General Banking License No. 1073 dated April 28, 2012. December 5, 1990 - the date of creation of the bank.

Assets

The bank is represented in the Northwestern, Central and Southern federal districts of the Russian Federation. As of 01.03.2014, the regional network of AKB RUSSLAVBANK includes:

• 6 branches,
• representation and 45 internal structural divisions, of which 34 are additional offices, 7 are credit and cash offices, 4 are operating cash desks outside the cash center and 3 operating offices.

The Bank is registered in the unified register of payment system operators CENTRAL BANK OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION under number 0001 as settlement, clearing and operating centers of the Payment System. Contact

Bank ratings

On the 01.05.2014 RUSSLAVBANK has:

• credit rating on the national scale "B++" with a negative forecast of the rating agency AK&M;
• credit rating on the national scale at the level of "BBB +," rating forecast - "stable" rating agency "RIA Rating ";
• financial sustainability rating E + ,
• rating of deposits in national and foreign currency B3 on a global scale, forecast "stable" by the International Rating Agency Moody's Investors Service;
• long-term credit rating on the national scale Baa2.ru Moody's Interfax.

Services

As of June 2014, AKB RUSSLAVBANK (ZAO) offers customers the main banking products adopted in international financial practice, including:

• retail and corporate lending,
• placement of funds in deposits,
• remote account management services,
• remittances and payments,
• depository transactions,
• transactions with bank cards,
• warranty and documentary operations,
• maintenance of export and import passports and much more.

History

2021: DIA sold the headquarters of Russlavbank for 0.5 billion rubles

In November 2021, the Deposit Insurance Agency announced the sale of the headquarters of the Russian Slavic Bank (Russlavbank) for 470 million rubles. The building with an area of ​ ​ 4.3 thousand square meters. m, located in the immediate vicinity of the Sukharevskaya metro station in Moscow, was bought by the general director of the Beijing Hotel and a member of the board of directors of the Sochi Pearl Hotel Oganes Grigoryan.

The premises of the business center can be used to host an office, rent or conduct other entrepreneurial activities, the DIA press service reports.

DIA sold Russlavbank headquarters for 0.5 billion rubles to Oganes Grigoryan

Bidding was held on November 17, 2021 through a public offer in electronic form at the trading platform of Russian Auction House JSC, acting on behalf of the DIA, which is the bankruptcy trustee of Russlavbank. Two bids were received for the auction, the person who offered the highest price was recognized as the winner. Another company, Altair LLC, also took part in the bidding, which offered 2.5 million rubles less for this asset.

According to Vedomosti, earlier the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained its former vice-president of Russlavbank Alexander Mironov on suspicion of organizing illegal banking operations. This, in turn, led to the outflow of deposits of customers and funds placed in a credit institution by other banks, Moody's analysts reported.

The Central Bank revoked his license; by November 2021, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) is completing its liquidation and is selling off the organization's property.

According to The Moscow Post on November 22, 2021, Ohanes Grigoryan, who won the auction for the former headquarters of the Russian Slavic Bank, is most likely acting in the interests of the owners of Sochi's Pearl JSC, which recently closed a deal to acquire the Beijing Hotel in Moscow from VTB's controlled group.^[1]

2014: Launch of own processing center

On June 17, 2014, AKB Russlavbank (ZAO) successfully transferred the service of all its Visa and MasterCard cards to its own processing center. The Russlavbank Processing Center is able to process the full range of transactions on issue and settlement for all types of VISA and MasterCard bank cards, including chip, prepaid cards, as well as a number of unique products for the Russian market, which will be launched in the near future. The system is scalable, the power of the processing center can be increased, in the current configuration the number of supported operations per second reaches 50. By the end of June 2014, the RUSSLAVBANK processing center will be connected to the Joint Settlement System (ODS), thanks to which more than 28 thousand ATMs, cash issuance points and payment acceptance points will be available to RUSSLAVBANK cardholders.

At the time of the launch of the center, more than 150 thousand cards of RUSSLABANK AKB (ZAO) are in circulation, it is planned to increase the issue to 5 million cards.

"The successful launch of our own processing center for issuing bank cards is only the first stage in the development of our own processing," said Alexander Bogdasarov, Director of card processing at RUSSLAVBANK (ZAO). - At the second stage, in the summer and autumn of 2014, it is planned to certify the processing center for acquiring VISA and MasterCard cards, including acquiring on the Internet, as well as mPOS (mobile acquiring). After completing all necessary certifications, we also plan to register our processing center with Visa and MasterCard international payment systems as Third Party Processor (TPP) in Visa and Member Service Provider (MSP) in MasterCard. Once our processing center has received the status of TPP/MSP, we will be able to offer to the partner banks of the CONTACT System, and not only, a full range of processing services for issuing and acquiring bank cards, including sponsorship services for joining and participating in international payment systems, as well as a number of products and services unique in the Russian market, which we will announce in the near future. Already, we are negotiating with a number of potential partners and are ready to start a dialogue with any bank interested in obtaining high-quality service and minimizing costs. We are confident that our unique technical capabilities will be extremely interesting and in demand on the market, "added Alexander Bogdasarov

1999: Launch of the Contact payment system

In 1999, RUSSLAVBANK founded the Contact payment system, the first Russian system of money transfers and payments, which laid the foundations of the national money transfer markets of Russia and neighboring countries and became one of its leaders.

As of December 2010, over 500 Russian and foreign respondent banks and over 6,000 corporate clients were served at RUSSLAVBANK (CJSC).

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