Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 2009(information is compiled on data received from the authorized registering body as of the reporting date)

	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 Russia or on the ground of its decision by authorized registrar1	1,225	1,220	1,210	1,205	1,203	1,200	1,197	1,195	1,192	1,186	1,184	1,178
of which: — banks	1,170	1,166	1,157	1,152	1,151	1,146	1,143	1,141	1,138	1,133	1,131	1,124
— non-bank Cis	55	54	53	53	52	54	54	54	54	53	53	54
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	77	79	79	81	81	81	81	81	81	81	81	82
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)	1	2	2	2	3	4	3	2	2	1	1	1
of which: — banks	1	2	2	2	3	2	1	1	2	1	1	1
— non-bank Cis	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0
Operating credit institutions
2. Total number of CIs with licence to conduct banking operations2	1,108	1,100	1,094	1,090	1,087	1,083	1,080	1,078	1,074	1,069	1,066	1,058
of which: — banks	1,058	1,051	1,045	1,041	1,039	1,035	1,032	1,028	1,023	1,018	1,015	1,007
— non-bank Cis	50	49	49	49	48	48	48	50	51	51	51	51
2.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	885	878	878	871	870	865	864	861	859	856	855	849
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	737	730	728	725	722	718	715	715	711	708	708	701
— CIs with general licence	297	296	294	293	293	294	294	293	294	293	292	291
— to conduct operations with precious metals
— permits	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
— licences3	200	200	201	202	202	202	202	202	204	203	203	201
2.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorized capital	226	226	223	229	226	228	231	230	226	229	228	226
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	77	78	78	80	80	81	81	81	81	81	81	82
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	25	25	25	24	25	25	26	27	27	27	26	26
2.3. Total credit institutions covered by the compulsory deposit insurance system4	892	885	885	881	881	876	875	872	870	867	866	859
3. Registered authorised capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	910,503	908,911	912,726	972,041	977,919	1,052,823	1,052,972	1,115,498	1,129,010	1,131,440	1,153,996	1,244,364
4. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	3,439	3,418	3,403	3,377	3,346	3,314	3,314	3,291	3,280	3, 260	3,228	3,183
of which: — Sberbank branches5	751	748	739	738	729	727	727	720	714	701	677	645
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	243	243	244	247	247	246	246	246	246	246	246	241
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
6. Branches of nonresident banks in Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7. Total number of representative offices of operating Russian CIs7	673	635	630	592	569	544	532	525	519	521	513	517
of which: — in Russia	631	592	588	550	528	501	489	482	475	478	471	475
— in non-CIS countries	30	30	29	30	29	29	29	29	30	30	29	29
— in CIS countries	12	13	13	12	12	14	14	14	14	13	13	13
8. Total number of additional offices of CIs	21,411	21,323	21,314	21,328	21,322	21,336	21,305	21,332	21,419	21,514	21,582	21,641
of which — Sberbank additional offices	9,647	9,668	9,705	9,770	9,800	9,857	9,865	9,885	9,938	9,964	9,999	10,061
9. Total number of cash points of CIs	13,687	13,568	13,475	13,399	13,295	13,154	12,997	12,854	12,556	12,473	12,477	12,461
of which — Sberbank cash points	9,971	9,912	9,851	9,779	9,712	9,598	9,493	9,374	9,114	9,007	8,972	8,962
10. Total number of credit and cash offices of CIs	1,382	1,337	1,310	1,299	1,280	1,262	1,279	1,280	1,263	1,264	1,251	1,252
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11. Total number of credit institutions’ operations offices (branches)	1,569	1,648	1,681	1,787	1,854	1,892	1,936	1,961	1,991	2,033	2,064	2,109
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7
12. Mobile cash points of credit institutions (branches)	64	65	65	66	68	70	73	73	75	82	82	84
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	63	64	64	65	67	69	71	71	73	80	80	82
Revocation of licences and liquidation of legal entities
13. CIs whose banking licence has been revoked (cancelled) and which were not deleted from the State Register8	116	118	114	113	113	113	114	115	116	116	117	119
14. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions9	1,903	1,909	1,919	1,925	1,928	1,933	1,936	1,938	1,942	1,948	1,950	1,957
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	1,498	1,504	1,514	1,520	1,523	1,527	1,530	1,531	1,533	1,537	1,538	1,540
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	404	404	404	404	404	405	405	406	408	410	411	416
of which: — re-organisations in the form of merger	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
— re-organisations in the form of take-overs	402	402	402	402	402	403	403	404	406	408	409	414
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	347	347	347	347	347	347	347	348	349	349	350	354
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	55	55	55	55	55	56	56	56	57	59	59	60
— CIs liquidated due to the violation of the law relating to the authorized capital repayment	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	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 or the authorized registrar before July 1, 2002, and granted permission to conduct banking operations;

— a legal entity registered by the Bank of Russian before July 1, 2002, or by the authorized registrar 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 before July 1, 2002, or by the authorized registrar 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 Statistics are provided in accordance with the information submitted by the public corporation “Deposit insurance agency” to the Bank of Russia as of the balance sheet date.

5 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.

6 Branches opened by Russian CIs abroad.

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

8 Total number of CIs whose licence was revoked (cancelled) by the Bank of Russia (including CIs whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register) — 1,668.

9 From July 1, 2002 the liquidation of a credit institution as legal entity is recorded in the State Register only after its state registration in connection with its liquidation by the authorized registrar.

Updated January 27, 2010.