Bank of Moscow

Bank of Moscow
Native name
Банк Москвы
MSKB@RU
IndustryFinance
Founded1995 (1995) (as Moscow Municipal Bank - Bank of Moscow); 2016 (as VTB Bank)
Defunct10 May 2016 (2016-05-10)
FateMerged with VTB Bank
SuccessorVTB Bank
Headquarters
Moscow
,
Russia
Number of locations
42 branches in Moscow and Moscow region and 43 branches in major cities of Russia
Area served
Russia
Key people
Andrei Kostin (Chairman)
ServicesBanking
AUMRUB 669 bln
Total assetsRUB 958 bln
Total equity121,6 billion rubles. (2009, IFRS )
Number of employees
10504 (30 September 2009)
Websitewww.bm.ru/en

The Bank of Moscow (Russian: Банк Москвы) was a Russian bank that provided banking services to both corporate and retail customers until May 2016.[1] Headquartered in Moscow, the bank had 267 outlets, including branch offices and cash desks. BoM had over 114,000 corporate and 9 million retail customers. In 2011, it was the fifth largest bank in Russia.[2] As of 1 July 2016, it had 6.3 million banking cards in its portfolio. Its central office was located in the building of the Moscow International Bank in Moscow, on the corner of Kuznetsky Most and Rozhdestvenka streets.

On 10 May 2016 its merger into VTB Bank was finalized.[3]

In 2011, following a hostile takeover by VTB Bank, US$9 billion VTB claimed they had found several fraudulent loans, and the bank received an unprecedented US$14 billion bailout.[4] Though Russia issued an international arrest warrant for Andrey Borodin for his suspected role in the accused fraud,[4] he was granted political asylum in the UK in February 2013.[5]

  1. ^ "Reorganization :: About Bank :: VTB Bank of Moscow". www.bm.ru. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  2. ^ "About the Bank :: Bank of Moscow". Bank of Moscow. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Группа ВТБ успешно завершила интеграцию Банка Москвы". www.vtb.ru. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Russia rescues Bank of Moscow in record bail-out". BBC News. 1 July 2011. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  5. ^ "Russian ex-banker Andrei Borodin wins asylum in UK". BBC News. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2013.