Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 20151

	31 January	28 February	31 March	30 April	31 May	30 June	31 July	31 August	30 September	31 October	30 November	31 December
Registration of credit institutions
1. Total number of CIs2 registered by the Bank of Russia or on the ground of its decision by the authorised registrar3	1,047	1,046	1,046	1,046	1,044	1,040	1,036	1,035	1,031	1,028	1,024	1,021
of which: — banks	975	972	971	970	967	963	960	959	955	952	950	947
— non-bank CIs	72	74	75	76	77	77	76	76	76	76	74	74
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	75	75	73	73	73	72	72	73	71	70	70	68
1.2. CIs that have been registered by the Bank of Russia but have not yet paid up authorised capital and have not been granted licence (within the period established by legislation)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
of which: — banks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
— non-bank CIs	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Operating credit institutions
2. Total number of CIs with banking licence4	830	827	824	815	810	797	783	774	767	757	740	733
of which: — banks	778	773	770	760	753	741	727	721	714	704	688	681
— non-bank CIs	52	54	54	55	57	56	56	53	53	53	52	52
2.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	687	684	683	676	670	659	647	643	637	628	614	609
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	551	549	547	539	536	528	517	512	507	500	488	482
— CIs with general licence	256	255	254	253	253	247	243	242	240	237	233	232
— to conduct operations with precious metals	203	202	201	198	198	196	192	191	189	189	186	183
2.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorised capital	224	222	220	220	221	216	214	214	212	210	204	199
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	75	75	73	73	73	72	72	73	71	70	70	68
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	37	36	36	36	36	34	34	32	34	35	33	38
2.3. Total credit institutions covered by the mandatory deposit insurance system5	695	692	691	685	680	669	657	651	645	635	621	616
3. Registered authorised capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	1,842,338	1,857,429	1,912,387	1,909,291	1,912,525	1,905,098	1,860,355	1,876,387	2,198,149	2,337,484	2,333,974	2,329,409
4. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	1,691	1,680	1,672	1,647	1,626	1,586	1,562	1,534	1,498	1,473	1,431	1,398
of which: — Sberbank branches6	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95	95
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	89	89	88	88	89	87	86	86	77	69	66	64
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
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 CIs8	309	307	304	305	304	306	307	309	309	309	310	308
of which: — in Russia	267	266	263	264	263	265	268	270	270	270	271	269
— in non-CIS countries	28	28	29	29	29	29	28	28	28	28	28	28
— in CIS countries	14	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11
8. Total number of additional offices of CIs	23,198	22,946	22,724	22,540	22,401	22,215	22,077	22,009	21,998	21,966	21,901	21,836
of which — Sberbank additional offices	11,703	11,681	11,668	11,657	11,634	11,591	11,619	11,648	11,706	11,770	11,821	11,854
9. Total number of cash points of CIs	6,687	6,629	6,574	6,516	6,484	6,358	6,248	6,166	6,071	6,003	5,868	5,696
of which — Sberbank cash points	4,501	4,472	4,418	4,364	4,344	4,257	4,154	4,078	3,986	3,917	3,871	3,719
10. Total number of credit and cash offices of CIs	2,188	2,123	2,051	1,993	1,964	1,966	1,966	1,862	1,962	1,830	1,816	1,853
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)	9,202	8,918	8,758	8,422	8,239	8,115	7,929	7,737	7,694	7,658	7,613	7,609
of which — Sberbank operations offices	651	651	647	646	646	644	651	650	640	642	641	640
12. Total number of mobile cash points of credit institutions (branches)	196	196	201	202	211	216	217	218	225	227	227	227
of which — Sberbank mobile cash points	194	194	199	200	209	214	214	214	221	221	223	223
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 Register of Credit Institutions9	217	219	222	230	234	242	253	261	264	271	284	288
14. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions10	2,119	2,120	2,120	2,121	2,123	2,128	2,132	2,133	2,137	2,140	2,144	2,147
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	1,639	1,639	1,639	1,640	1,642	1,645	1,648	1,649	1,652	1,654	1,658	1,660
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	479	480	480	480	480	482	483	483	484	485	485	486
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	477	478	478	478	478	480	481	481	482	483	483	484
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	384	384	384	384	384	385	385	385	386	387	387	387
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	93	94	94	94	94	95	96	96	96	96	96	97
— CIs liquidated due to the violation of the law relating to the authorised capital repayment	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

— 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 Information is based, among other things, on data received from the authorised registering body as of the reporting date

² 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 authorised registrar before 1 July 2002, and granted permission to conduct banking operations;
• a legal entity registered by the Bank of Russian before 1 July 2002, or by the authorised registrar that once had but lost the right to conduct banking operations;

³ 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.

⁴ Credit institutions registered by the Bank of Russia before 1 July 2002, or by the authorised registrar and having banking licence.

⁵ Statistics are provided in accordance with the information submitted by the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency to the Bank of Russia as of the balance sheet date.

⁶ Sberbank branches that have been recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions and received ordinal numbers. Before 1 January 1998, the monthly information on credit institutions indicated in this line the total number of Sberbank establishments — 34,426.

⁷ Branches opened by Russian CIs abroad.

⁸ Representative offices of Russian CIs abroad comprise the offices of whose opening abroad the Bank of Russia has been notified.

⁹ Total number of CIs whose banking licence was revoked (cancelled), including CIs whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register — 1,948.

¹⁰ From 1 July 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 authorised registrar.

Updated on 2 February 2016.