SberIndex (formerly Sberbank: Open data)

2016: Announcement

On November 22, 2016, Sberbank announced the launch of the Open Data project, within which the credit institution began to share information on the financial activity of its clients. The project was built using Big Data technologies.

By the time of the start of Open Data, Sberbank provides free information on the average amounts and number of applications for consumer and mortgage loans, the average size and number of new deposits, the dynamics of salaries and pensions. Visitors to the site will be able to track monthly dynamics, compare Russian regions by various indicators, download information in a convenient format for themselves. The list of published information is planned to be expanded.

Sberbank began to share customer data as part of the Big Dat project

By November 2016, Sberbank analyzes data on 140 million private and 1.5 million corporate clients and occupies from 40% to 90% of most financial services markets, depending on the region and product, the company said.

Sberbank's big data is information about a significant part of the economic processes taking place in the country. For the first time, this data is becoming available to everyone, according to the company's website.

In addition to information published free of charge on the website, Sberbank will provide registered reports on the behavior of its customers on a paid basis. Forecast and statistical models based on impersonal data on Sberbank customers can be useful, for example, for retail chains, information publications, authorities^[1]

We do not give information about specific customers. The bottom line is that based on these data, we can order, for example, where Magnit should open stores. We may well issue some units for commercial structures and for state ones, too, "explained Sberbank Vice President Andrei Khlyzov at a press conference (quoted by Interfax).[2]

Subsequently, the service was renamed SberIndex. Service link [1]

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