According to Interfax-Center for Economic Analysis (Interfax-CEA), nine banks located in Ural Federal District were featured in their Russia’s Top 100 list compiled on the basis of data on the banks’ pre-tax profit in the first half of 2008. Fifty-eight out of fifty-nine Ural Federal District-based banks presented in the total rating were able to make some profit in January-June 2008, while fifteen of them made more than 100 million RUR worth of profit, the bank’s press officer reports.

SKB-Bank’s revenues, for instance, reached 301 million RUR in the first half of 2008. Besides, SKB-Bank was one of the four Sverdlovsk Region-based banks featured in the rating. The list included some banks located in Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Tyumen, and Khanty-Mansiysk as well.