Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 2011(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	Sep. 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	1,145	1,145	1,140	1,139	1,138	1,130	1,129	1,126	1,123	1,123	1,117	1,112
of which: — banks	1,083	1,083	1,078	1,076	1,075	1,068	1,067	1,064	1,061	1,061	1,055	1,051
— non-bank Cis	62	62	62	63	63	62	62	62	62	62	62	61
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	79	78	78	78	78	78	78	77	78	78	77	77
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	1	1	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
of which: — banks	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
— non-bank Cis	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Operating credit institutions
2. Total number of CIs with licence to conduct banking operations2	1,012	1,010	1,006	1,003	1,003	1,000	994	993	991	988	982	978
of which: — banks	954	952	948	945	944	941	936	935	933	931	925	922
— non-bank Cis	58	58	58	58	59	59	58	58	58	57	57	56
2.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	819	817	813	811	813	812	807	808	806	804	799	797
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	677	676	673	672	672	673	669	669	670	668	665	661
— CIs with general licence	283	282	281	279	279	277	275	274	273	274	273	273
— to conduct operations with precious metals	210	210	209	208	210	209	207	207	206	207	207	207
2.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorized capital	225	224	220	223	225	219	226	226	225	227	227	230
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	79	78	78	78	78	78	78	77	78	78	77	77
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	31	30	31	31	31	31	32	32	32	34	36	36
2.3. Total credit institutions covered by the compulsory deposit insurance system3	831	830	826	823	825	824	818	818	817	813	808	806
3. Registered authorised capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	1,189,290	1,196,542	1,198,094	1,201,637	1,204,556	1,195,694	1,182,699	1,187,265	1,204,096	1,206,393	1,210,664	1,214,343
4. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	2,886	2,880	2,885	2,867	2,865	2,855	2,835	2,824	2,825	2,818	2,812	2,807
of which: — Sberbank branches4	540	539	538	534	532	530	530	530	530	530	530	524
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	202	201	201	197	193	181	176	173	169	165	156	155
5. Total number of branches of operating CIs abroad5	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 CIs6	443	439	431	399	398	396	395	395	386	383	382	378
of which: — in Russia	399	396	388	356	353	351	350	349	340	340	339	335
— in non-CIS countries	32	32	32	32	33	33	33	34	34	31	31	31
— in CIS countries	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
8. Total number of additional offices of CIs	21,846	21,851	21,961	22,024	22,060	22,118	22,176	22,204	22,288	22,402	22,541	22,565
of which — Sberbank additional offices	10,087	10,108	10,159	10,239	10,263	10,288	10,281	10,278	10,307	10,361	10,479	10,518
9. Total number of cash points of CIs	11,880	11,814	11,593	11,501	11,457	11,340	11,259	11,184	11,104	11,038	10,937	10,860
of which — Sberbank cash points	8,478	8,411	8,262	8,169	8,146	8,042	7,980	7,909	7,874	7,821	7,705	7,655
10. Total number of credit and cash offices of CIs	1,418	1,459	1,457	1,451	1,484	1,515	1,553	1,592	1,656	1,626	1,651	1,725
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)	3,317	3,432	3,524	3,685	3,809	3,956	4,093	4,218	4,406	4,617	4,877	5,360
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	240	253	256	256	256	256	256	256	258	276	352	545
12. Mobile cash points of credit institutions (branches)	88	91	91	91	91	91	92	92	92	95	95	100
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	84	87	87	87	87	87	88	88	88	91	91	96
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 Register7	132	134	133	134	134	130	134	132	131	135	135	134
14. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions8	1,992	1,992	1,997	1,999	2,000	2,008	2,010	2,013	2,017	2,017	2,023	2,028
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	1,556	1,556	1,559	1,560	1,561	1,565	1,566	1,568	1,570	1,570	1,572	1,574
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	435	435	437	438	438	442	443	444	446	446	450	453
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	433	433	435	436	436	440	441	442	444	444	448	451
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	362	362	363	363	363	364	365	366	368	368	370	372
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	71	71	72	73	73	76	76	76	76	76	78	79
— 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 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.

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.

7 Total number of CIs whose licence was revoked (cancelled), including CIs whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register — 1,708.

8 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, 2012.