The Expert Ural magazine came up with the rating of the Ural Region’s banks; four banks from Tyumen Region, three banks based in Sverdlovsk Region, and three Chelyabinsk Region banks filled the top ten positions. SKB-Bank was rated as the region’s most successful bank in terms of asset growth; the volume of the bank’s assets amounted to more than 24.1 billion RUR on July 1, 2007, which is 25% better than three months earlier, the magazine observes.

SKB-Bank was also named the Urals’ No.1 in terms of consumer loan portfolio growth (the increase reached 43% over just three months) as well as in terms of the amount of ATMs, whose number came to 196 on July 1, 2007.