Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 2001

	Dec. 31, 2000	Jan. 31	Feb. 28	Mar. 31	Apr. 30	May 31	June 30	July 31	Aug. 31	Sept. 30	Oct. 31	Nov. 30	Dec. 31
Registration of credit institutions
1. Total number of CIs* registered by Bank of Russia1	2,124	2,113	2,114	2,114	2,113	2,100	2,075	2,081	2,062	2,059	2,056	2,065	2,001
of which: —banks	2,084	2,073	2,074	2,074	2,072	2,059	2,034	2,040	2,021	2,018	2,015	2,018	1,953
— non-bank Cis	40	40	40	40	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	47	48
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	22	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23
1.2. CIs that have been registered by Bank of Russia but have not yet paid up authorized capital and have not been granted licence (within the period established by legislation)	9	5	1	1	12	5	2	6	6	1	1	10	7
of which: — banks	6	5	1	1	11	5	2	6	6	1	1	4	2
— non-bank Cis	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5
2. Non-bank CIs registered by other bodies	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Operating credit institutions
3. Total number of CIs with licence to conduct banking operations2	1,311	1,314	1,319	1,318	1,316	1,322	1,322	1,322	1,322	1,322	1,320	1,319	1,319
of which: — banks	1, 274	1,274	1,279	1,278	1,276	1,281	1,281	1,281	1,281	1,281	1,279	1,278	1,276
— non-bank CIs	37	40	40	40	40	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	43
3.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposit of individuals	1,239	1,238	1,238	1,237	1,235	1,234	1,232	1,230	1,231	1,227	1,227	1,226	1,223
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	764	769	779	782	780	791	794	795	797	805	805	805	810
— CIs with general licence	244	244	244	247	255	255	255	258	260	257	257	262	262
— to conduct operations with precious metals
— permits	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7
— licences3	153	153	158	161	161	163	164	164	164	162	162	162	164
3.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorized capital	130	130	132	134	134	133	133	133	133	130	129	128	125
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	22	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	12	13	12	12	12	12
4. Registered authorized capital of operating CIs (million re-denominated rubles)	207,402	214,287	217,677	220,759	222,865	224,532	232,730	235,949	242,749	242,564	248,617	251,814	260,989
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	3,793	3,765	3,734	3,679	3,638	3,605	3,556	3,519	3,484	3,453	3,439	3,432	3,433
of which: — Sberbank branches4	1, 529	1,523	1,512	1,452	1,419	1,392	1,344	1,315	1,290	1,267	1,242	1,239	1,233
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9
6. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
7. Branches of nonresident banks in Russia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
8. Total number of representative offices of operating Russian CIs6	186	188	190	191	182	178	179	184	180	183	175	177	178
of which: — in Russia	135	136	137	138	131	129	130	133	131	133	129	131	131
— in non-CIS countries	37	38	39	39	37	35	35	37	37	38	35	35	36
— in CIS countries	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	12	12	11	11	11
Revocation of licences and liquidation of legal entities
9. CIs whose banking licence has been revoked (cancelled)	806	796	796	797	787	775	753	755	736	738	737	738	677
10. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions	869	880	880	881	893	907	932	932	951	954	957	957	1,022
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	516	526	526	526	538	552	577	577	596	598	601	601	664
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	349	350	350	351	351	351	351	351	351	352	352	352	353
of which: — re-organisations in the form of merger	0	0	0			0							0
— re-organisations in the form of take-overs	349	350	350	351	351	351	351	351	351	352	352	352	353
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	318	318	318	319	319	319	319	319	319	319	319	319	320
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	31	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	33	33	33	33
— CIs wound up voluntarily by their members	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
— CIs liquidated due to the violation of the law relating to the authorized capital repayment	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Notes to the table:

* CI — credit institution. The term “credit institution” in this material denotes one of the following:

— a legal entity registered by the Bank of Russia and granted permission to conduct banking operations;

— a Bank of Russia-registered legal entity that once had but lost the right to conduct banking operations;

— a legal entity registered by other bodies (before the Federal Law on Banks and Banking Activities came into force) and having Bank of Russia licence to conduct banking operations.

1 Credit institutions that have the status of a legal entity as of the reporting date, including CIs that have lost the right to conduct banking operations but have not yet been liquidated as a legal entity.

2 Credit institutions registered by the Bank of Russia and having licence to conduct banking operations as well as non-bank CIs registered by other bodies and having Bank of Russia licence to conduct banking operations.

3 Issued since December 1996 pursuant to Bank of Russia Letter No. 367, dated December 3, 1996.

4 Sberbank branches that have been recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions and received ordinal numbers. Before January 1, 1998, the monthly Information Bulletin on Credit Institutions indicated in this line the total number of Sberbank institutions — 34,426.

5 Branches opened by Russian CIs abroad.

6 Representative offices of Russian CIs abroad comprise the offices of whose opening abroad the Bank of Russia has been notified.

Updated January 15, 2002.