Historic Milestones
1990
- SKB-Bank was established on the basis of the Sverdlovsk regional office of Agroprombank
1996
- SKB-Bank became an authorized bank of the Sverdlovsk Regional Government
2001
- Dmitry Pumpyansky (the beneficial owner of TMK) becomes SKB-bank’s strategic partner
2003
- First consumer and mortgage loan issued
- ATM network established
2004
- Membership in the government-run Deposit Insurance System
- Leasing transactions launched
2005
- Focus on the retail business
- Management and business processes restructuring
2006
- Mortgage Lending Centre opened
- SME lending and factoring launched
2007
- International Ratings received: B2/Stable from Moody’s and B-/Stable from Fitch
- EBRD acquired 25% + 1 share of SKB
- SKB-Bank issued it’s first rouble-denominated domestic bonds for RUR 1 bln
- Bank strategy is audited by Roland Berger company
2008
- SKB is authorized by Deposit Insurance Agency to reimburse deposits of other banks’ clients
- Technical support in lending procedures and risk management fields exercised by EBRD (Financial Access)
- Bonds of SKB-bank are included in the Bank of Russia Lombard List
- Within federal program of bank system financial recovery, realized by Deposit Insurance Agency, the Bank together with Sinara Group participate in sanation of SB Gubernsky (JSC)
2009
- Creditworthiness rating assigned by “RusRating” was increased up to “BB+”. Rating based on high probability of support by government, financially solid shareholders and probability of their support, strong market position
- The Bank capital exceeded 8,1 RUR bln. In the result of receiving of Subordinated loan from Vnesheconombank
2010
- Fitch Ratings upgraded Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of SKB-BANK to “B” from “B-”. Assigned Stable Outlook”
2011
- Moody's upgraded Rating of SKB-BANK to "B1", with Stable Outlook
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RusRating upgraded outlook of SKB-BANK credit rating from stable to positive