Each and every of OAO SKB-Bank’s offices renders a full range of services to private individuals, so one can open a bank account there, take out a loan, get a money order or make various kinds of payments. The latter service is particularly popular with the bank’s customers, as over 1 million housing bills have been paid through SKB-Bank since the beginning of the year,’ the bank’s press service reports.

In addition to housing bills, the bank’s outlets accept and handle mobile and landline phone bills, Internet fees, security service and door phone payments, tuition fees, road fines and much else besides. The payment-handling system is dubbed Pay-on-the-Way since all of the offices located in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region are as close to people’s homes as any corner shop. SKB-Bank currently runs twenty-six outlets in Yekaterinburg and over thirty units in Sverdlovsk Region, with at least one office in every town in the region.