Interfax-Center for Economic Analysis (Interfax-CEA) came up with the ranking of Russia’s top 100 largest banks in terms of asset volume as of June 30, 2008. Seven banks based in Ural Federal District, including SKB-Bank, were featured in the ranking for the first half of 2008. Three of them are located in Sverdlovsk Region, another three are located in Tyumen Region, and one bank is based in Chelyabinsk Region.

The Center’s research has shown that all the seven banks managed to raise the volume of their assets over the first six months of 2008. Interfax-CEA analysts report SKB-Bank’s assets amounted to 35.772 billion RUR on June 30, 2008, which was 19.8% better than on January 1, 2008. In fact, the bank’s assets grew impressively over the summer and reached 38.606 billion RUR on August 1, 2008.