Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 20161

	31 January	29 February	31 March	30 April	31 May	30 June	31 July	31 August	30 September	31 October	30 November
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	1,018	1,013	1,008	1,005	1,000	997	994	988	985	985	978
of which: — banks	945	939	934	932	928	925	924	918	916	916	911
— non-bank CIs	73	74	74	73	72	72	70	70	69	69	67
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	68	67	68	67	67	68	69	69	70	70	70
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	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
of which: — banks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
— non-bank CIs	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Operating credit institutions
2. Total number of CIs with banking licence4	728	718	707	696	689	680	669	659	649	643	635
of which: — banks	676	665	654	646	638	630	619	610	600	594	586
— non-bank CIs	52	53	53	50	51	50	50	49	49	49	49
2.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	604	595	584	575	568	562	553	545	537	531	525
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	479	471	460	452	446	441	434	426	420	414	412
— CIs with general licence	231	229	229	227	226	223	219	217	214	214	209
— to conduct operations with precious metals	182	179	177	173	173	171	165	163	163	162	159
2.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorised capital	200	197	195	192	189	189	189	184	183	182	175
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	68	67	67	66	67	68	69	68	70	70	70
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	38	37	35	35	32	30	30	31	28	28	27
2.3. Total credit institutions covered by the mandatory deposit insurance system5	611	602	591	581	574	567	558	550	542	536	529
3. Registered authorised capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	2,391,250	2,387,868	2,403,174	2,400,539	2,378,581	2,397,689	2,389,570	2,388,401	2,376,745	2,378,546	2,381,043
4. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	1,362	1,335	1,310	1,288	1,255	1,232	1,206	1,189	1,167	1,132	1,115
of which: — Sberbank branches6	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	62	62	62	61	62	62	62	54	59	59	59
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad7	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
7. Total number of representative offices of operating Russian CIs8	310	307	304	301	299	291	289	287	287	288	286
of which: — in Russia	271	268	266	264	263	257	257	255	255	256	256
— in non-CIS countries	28	28	27	27	26	24	22	22	22	22	21
— in CIS countries	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9
8. Total number of additional offices of CIs	21,720	21,601	21,486	21,248	21,138	20,897	20,675	20,421	20,447	20,349	20,102
of which — Sberbank additional offices	11,855	11,831	11,815	11,736	11,700	11,609	11,565	11,611	11,565	11,465	11,232
9. Total number of cash points of CIs	5,603	5,549	5,534	5,500	5,456	5,396	5,315	5,239	5,179	5,151	5,041
of which — Sberbank cash points	3,679	3,653	3,630	3,619	3,611	3,579	3,494	3,422	3,379	3,373	3,366
10. Total number of credit and cash offices of CIs	1,869	1,910	1,988	1,996	1,983	1,987	1,996	2,011	2,014	1,965	1,963
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11. Total number of credit institutions’ operations offices (branches)	7,548	7,437	7,388	7,375	7,306	7,336	7,232	7,105	7,150	7,180	7,207
of which — Sberbank operations offices	639	638	637	639	640	639	638	638	637	632	631
12. Total number of mobile cash points of credit institutions (branches)	230	234	234	238	241	243	245	247	247	249	249
of which — Sberbank mobile cash points	226	229	230	234	237	239	241	242	242	244	244
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	290	295	300	308	311	317	325	328	336	342	343
14. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions10	2,150	2,155	2,161	2,164	2,170	2,173	2,176	2,183	2,186	2,186	2,193
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	1,663	1,668	1,674	1,676	1,680	1,680	1,682	1,687	1,689	1,689	1,693
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	486	486	486	487	489	492	493	495	496	496	499
of which: — re-organisations in the form of merger	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
— re-organisations in the form of take-overs	484	484	484	485	487	490	491	493	494	494	497
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	387	387	387	387	389	388	388	389	389	389	389
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	97	97	97	98	98	102	103	104	105	105	108
— 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

— 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 — 2,036.

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 19 December 2016.