Information on Registration and Licensing of Credit Institutions in 2012(information is compiled on data received from the authorized registering body as of the reporting date)

	Jan. 31	Feb. 29	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	1,111	1,110	1,110	1,104	1,101	1,102	1,102	1,101	1,098	1,098	1,094	1,094
of which: — banks	1,049	1,047	1,045	1,039	1,037	1,037	1,036	1,034	1,032	1,032	1,028	1,027
— non-bank Cis	62	63	65	65	64	65	66	67	66	66	66	67
1.1. Number of wholly foreign-owned CIs	77	77	79	79	79	76	76	76	75	74	74	73
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	2	1	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
of which: — banks	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
— non-bank Cis	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1
Operating credit institutions
2. Total number of CIs with licence to conduct banking operations2	976	974	975	970	967	965	965	963	962	961	958	956
of which: — banks	919	916	915	910	908	906	905	903	900	900	898	897
— non-bank Cis	57	58	60	60	59	59	60	60	62	61	60	59
2.1. CIs with licence (permit) granting them the right:
— to take deposits of individuals	795	794	793	790	787	786	786	784	783	784	784	784
— to conduct operations in foreign currency	659	657	658	655	653	651	651	648	648	649	648	648
— CIs with general licence	273	273	273	272	271	271	271	271	270	270	270	270
— to conduct operations with precious metals	207	208	209	210	209	209	209	209	208	209	210	211
2.2. Total number of CIs with foreign stakes in authorized capital	232	233	234	235	235	236	237	239	239	239	242	244
of which: — wholly foreign-owned CIs	77	77	79	79	79	76	76	76	75	74	74	73
— CIs with a foreign stake of more than 50%	36	36	36	36	37	41	41	43	42	43	43	44
2.3. Total credit institutions covered by the compulsory deposit insurance system3	805	804	804	800	798	797	796	794	793	794	793	793
3. Registered authorised capital of operating CIs (million rubles)	1,222,690	1,241,393	1,283,533	1,283,652	1,285,567	1,286,953	1,289,131	1,299,921	1,307,222	1,318,833	1,332,095	1,341,425
4. Total number of branches of operating CIs in Russia	2,795	2,791	2,775	2,747	2,724	2,700	2,678	2,674	2,652	2,611	2,486	2,349
of which: — Sberbank branches4	524	523	523	523	518	507	497	495	492	456	357	239
— branches of wholly foreign-owned banks	155	149	154	152	153	150	149	147	148	139	139	136
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	373	368	441	435	436	429	421	423	423	424	421	415
of which: — in Russia	330	325	398	393	394	389	381	383	384	384	381	375
— in non-CIS countries	31	31	31	30	30	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
— in CIS countries	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	12
8. Total number of additional offices of CIs	22,526	22,566	22,612	22,653	22,703	22,696	22,688	22,734	22,779	22,918	23,142	23,347
of which — Sberbank additional offices	10,485	10,497	10,501	10,496	10,508	10,504	10,506	10,521	10,535	10,636	10,787	10,923
9. Total number of cash points of CIs	10,738	10,675	10,622	10,543	10,457	10,397	10,327	10,282	10,216	10,203	9,968	9,685
of which — Sberbank cash points	7,541	7,492	7,476	7,418	7,362	7,312	7,255	7,215	7,161	7,165	6,966	6,724
10. Total number of credit and cash offices of CIs	1,749	1,759	1,776	1,816	1,877	1,906	1,974	2,005	2,015	2,061	2,112	2,161
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)	5,576	5,702	5,867	6,058	6,238	6,412	6,586	6,762	6,939	7,131	7,294	7,447
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	590	590	592	607	620	629	639	637	648	649	666	670
12. Mobile cash points of credit institutions (branches)	103	105	105	109	112	112	112	113	114	114	113	118
of which — Sberbank credit and cash offices	99	101	101	104	107	106	106	107	108	109	108	113
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	134	135	133	133	134	136	136	136	136	136	136	137
14. Total number of CIs liquidated as legal entities, whose liquidation was recorded in the State Register of Credit Institutions8	2,030	2,031	2,033	2,039	2,042	2,042	2,043	2,046	2,049	2,050	2,054	2,055
of which: — CIs liquidated due to revocation (cancellation) of licence	1,575	1,576	1,578	1,582	1,585	1,585	1,586	1,588	1,589	1,589	1,593	1,594
— CIs liquidated due to re-organisation	454	454	454	456	456	456	456	457	459	460	460	460
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	452	452	452	454	454	454	454	455	457	458	458	458
of which: — CIs transformed into branches of other banks	373	373	373	375	375	375	375	376	377	377	377	377
— CIs taken over by other banks (without creating a branch)	79	79	79	79	79	79	79	79	80	81	81	81
— 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 — 1,731.

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 29, 2013.