Bank of Russia recognizes the importance of the market for payment services 51 credit institutions, including three banks registered in Vladivostok, and two in Blagoveshchensk, writes the business newspaper “Golden Horn”.
The first decision to recognize the significance of credit institutions is based on the amounts reported in the first half of 2014, the newspaper “Golden Horn”.
According to the law “On National Payment System” credit organizations, recognizes the importance of the market for payment services must be individual members of the national system of payment cards (NBTS), they are required to collaborate with the operations center NBTS and payment clearing center NBTS in the manner prescribed by the rules of NBTS.
The list of such organizations were Far Eastern Bank, Primsotsbank, Bank “Primorye” (all – Vladivostok), Orient Express Bank and the Asia-Pacific Bank (both – Brussels).
99,356% (100% of the ordinary) shares owned by the Far Eastern Bank Russian Regional Development Bank, which in turn on 84.67% owned by NK “Rosneft».
The controlling shareholder of the bank “Primorye” is the wife of the former governor of Primorye Sergey Darkin Larissa Belobrova, which owns 54.17% stake in the bank. Registered in Hong Kong company Anchor Worldwide Limited holds 11.46%, the Czech CDV CZ SRO (50% owned by the wife of Alexander and Alla Malyarenko) – 6,27%.
Chairman of the Board Dmitry Primsotsbanka SPRING and his son, Alexander, Deputy predpravleniya SPRING together hold 67.36% stake Primsotsbanka. Shareholders of the bank are also of “Outpost-DV” (100% owned by Dmitry spring) – 19.99%, EBRD – 12.5% of the shares.
According to the Asia-Pacific Bank, 16.7% its shares are owned by one of the founders and chairman of the board of directors of Petropavlovsk Peter Hambro and Alexei Maslowski (son of Honorary President Paul Maslowski Petropavlovsk), as well as partner and Hambro Maslovskoye on VMHY Holdings Andrey Vdovin and former partner Cyril Jakubowski (mid-August 2014 Jakubowski sold his stake in VMHY Vdovin, senior Maslovsky and Hambro). Previously, they controlled ExpoBank, prior to its sale to British bank Barclays.
Former co-owner of MDM Bank Igor Kim directly owns 13.43% of the bank “Orient Express” (CB “East”). Shareholders “Orient Express” are also its partners and members of the board of directors of the bank Andrei Bekarev (7%) and Alexander Taranov (2.72%). Chairman of the Board of Directors Sergey VLASOV owns 11.84%, his wife Eugenia SCHUPLOVOY – 1,82%.
Russia Partners Fund owns 6.97% of the share capital of the company (through Cyprus “Troyte Investments Limited”) , investment fund Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund IV – 33,88% (after Cyprus’ Evizon Holdings Limited “). International Finance Corporation (IFC) owns 11.87% of ZAO “DNA” (Novosibirsk) – 5,05%, IFC Russian Capitalisation Fund – 2,19%.
In December last year, the CBR designation opubikoval establishing a procedure for recognizing them credit institutions relevant to the market for payment services related to the implementation of operations with payment and credit cards, electronic funds transfers, including the use of prepaid cards.
Bank annually no later than 1 April to make a decision on the recognition of significant credit institutions in the market of payment services if their data reporting for the reporting calendar year meet the criteria of significance. Credit institution recognizes the importance of the market for payment services, included in the register, prepared and published by the Central Bank.
In order to recognize the credit institution relevant to the market for payment services, it must meet at least one of the indications set out in the draft criteria.
In particular, the proportion of the volume of transactions with payment and credit cards carried out by the credit institution in the territory of at least one Federal District for the calendar year must be equal to or greater than 2% of the total volume of transactions carried out by credit institutions the territory of the Federal District for the year.
The threshold of 2% is also set to share the amount of settlement and credit cards issued by a credit institution in the federal district as of 1 January of the year following the reporting period, the total number of cards issued by credit banks in the territory of the county, and the proportion of the number of ATMs, POS terminals and imprinters used for transactions using credit cards belonging to the credit institution in the total number of devices that belong to credit institutions located in the district.
A significant and can be recognized by the bank, whose share of the volume of electronic funds transfer, including prepaid cards, carried out by the credit institution in Russia for the calendar year, the total obeema transfers of credit institutions in the Russian Federation for the year reached 2 %.
Olga Dobrolyubova. Newspaper “Golden Horn”, Vladivostok.
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