Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 2002

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	Dec. 31, 2001	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	2,001	1,998	1,991	1,980	1,981	1,930	1,921	1,921	1,920	1,915	1,888	1,874	1,826
of which: — banks	1,953	1,950	1,944	1,933	1,934	1,883	1,874	1,874	1,872	1,866	1,839	1,823	1,773
— non-bank Cis	48	48	47	47	47	47	47	47	48	49	49	51	53
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	23	26	26	26	26	27	27	27	27	28	28	28	27
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)	7	7	8	5	8	13	13	6	3	3	4	7	8
of which: — banks	2	6	8	5	8	13	13	6	2	1	3	5	4
— non-bank Cis	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	4
2. Non-bank CIs registered by other bodies before July 1, 2002	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	1,319	1,323	1,324	1,327	1,327	1,327	1,328	1,335	1,335	1,334	1,331	1,332	1,329
of which: — banks	1,276	1,276	1,277	1,280	1,280	1,280	1,281	1,288	1,289	1,288	1,284	1,284	1,282
— non-bank CIs	43	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	46	46	47	48	47
3.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	1,223	1,220	1,219	1,218	1,215	1,212	1,211	1,211	1,208	1,208	1,204	1,205	1,202
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	810	815	817	822	819	820	824	832	833	835	831	833	839
— CIs with general licence	262	265	267	270	274	278	279	279	281	284	289	295	293
— to conduct operations with precious metals
— permits	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	5
— licences³	164	164	164	164	164	164	164	166	168	169	169	169	170
3.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorized capital	126	127	126	128	129	130	129	130	130	129	129	128	126
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	23	24	25	25	26	26	26	27	27	28	28	28	27
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	12	12	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	11	10
4. Registered authorized capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	260,989	267,033	269,057	274,705	277,879	281,554	282,180	285,317	286,261	287,315	290,916	296,652	300,391
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	3,433	3,455	3,454	3,428	3,411	3,390	3,371	3,340	3,343	3,338	3,331	3,329	3,326
of which: — Sberbank branches⁴	1,233	1,232	1,232	1,206	1,196	1,185	1,172	1,168	1,168	1,168	1,163	1,162	1,162
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	9	9	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12
6. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad⁵	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
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	178	175	176	183	187	190	189	183	202	189	202	204	205
of which: — in Russia	131	131	131	136	140	143	143	138	156	147	158	159	162
— in non-CIS countries	36	34	35	37	37	37	36	35	36	27	29	30	28
— in CIS countries	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	15	15	15	15
Revocation of licences and liquidation of legal entities
9. CIs whose banking licence has been revoked (cancelled) and which were not deleted from the State Register⁷	677	670	662	650	648	592	582	582	584	580	557	537	491
10. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions⁸	1,022	1,032	1,041	1,054	1,059	1,119	1,131	1,131	1,133	1,139	1,168	1,186	1,238
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	664	674	682	695	700	760	772	772	774	780	806	826	876
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	353	353	354	354	354	354	354	354	354	354	355	355	357
of which: — re-organisations in the form of merger	0		0			0	0	0				0	0
— re-organisations in the form of take-overs	353	353	354	354	354	354	354	354	354	354	355	355	357
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	320	320	321	321	321	321	321	321	321	321	321	321	323
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	34	34	34
— 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	1	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.

¹Credit 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.

²Credit 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.

³Issued 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.

⁵Branches opened by Russian CIs abroad.

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

⁷Total number of CIs whose licence was revoked (cancelled) by the Bank of Russia (including CIs whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register) — 1,376.

⁸From 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 15, 2003.

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