Nine Belarusian banks are included in the RIA ranking. These are Belarusbank, Belinvestbank, Belgazprombank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, Priorbank, Belagroprombank, BPS-Sberbank and BelVEB. Belarus’ largest bank Belarusbank kept its 14th position in the ranking. Belinvestbank moved up from the 77th to 75th position, BelVEB — from 95th to 81st, Belgazprombank — from 103rd position to 90th, Priorbank — from 108th to 106th, VTB — from 154th position to 153rd, Alfa-Bank — from 197th to 159th.
The positions of two Belarusian banks worsened. Belagroprombank moved down from 34th position to 37th, BPS-Sberbank — from 49th to 53rd.
There are about 1,000 banks in the CIS countries. Russian banks account for 58 percent of those included in the ranking, Kazakhstani banks — 9.5 percent, Ukrainian banks — 8.5 percent, Uzbek banks — 5.5 percent, Belarusian banks — 4.5 percent.
By Mikhail Samoilov
