VTB Bank


VTB Bank (former Vneshtorgbank) is one of the leading universal banks of Russia. VTB Bank and its subsidiaries form a leading Russian financial group – VTB Group, offering a wide range of banking services and products in Russia, CIS, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the U.S. The Group’s largest subsidiaries in Russia are VTB 24, Bank of Moscow.

VTB was ranked 446th on the FT Global 500 2012, The Financial Times’ annual snapshot of the world's largest companies. It climbed to 210th in the ranking of the 500 largest companies in Europe, the FT Europe 500 2014, and to 127th in the FT Emerging 500 2014, the list of the 500 largest companies on the world’s emerging markets. The Moscow-based bank is registered in St. Petersburg and came 66th in the British magazine The Banker’s Top 1,000 World Banks in terms of capital in 2014.

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It is useless to look for Putin's bank accounts

Society29.08.2016

The president is doomed to lead a modest lifestyle, believes the chairman of the board of VTB Andrey Kostin.

Lenders beset Igor Mavlyanov's Yashma-Zoloto from all sides

Business19.08.2016

Promsvyazbank and Sberbank are going to get up to 9.7 billion rubles from Igor Mavlyanov and Robert Martirosyan.

Metal maker is left without distilleries

Business27.06.2016

Vadim Varshavsky's family assests have been arrested in France.

"On the threshold of a new reality": how much will cost the St. Petersburg Forum

Business31.05.2016

St. Petersburg Economic Forum, the main business event in Russia this year, could become the most expensive in its history. Despite the savings, expenses increased not only for the organizer of the forum, but also for the participants.

Donbass money: the currency stolen in Ukraine came to Moscow

Crime28.04.2016

The local gangsters trying to trade the dollars, euro and hryvnia, stolen from ATMs in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, in the Russian banks.

How Yuri and Alexey Khotin do business

Business22.04.2016

Businessmen Yuri and Alexey Khotin, father and son, have so far been known as the kings of the Moscow real estate. Now they are interested in oil.

Steelmakers paid for VTB credits with their freedom

Crime08.04.2016

Managers of Red October plant have been arrested. 

"Moscow" on credit: the Khotins got the hotel on loan from VTB

Business10.03.2016

Belarusian businessmen Alexey and Yuri Khotin could get Moscow Hotel on credit, despite the long-standing conflict with VTB.

Saboteur Kostin

Business02.03.2016

President of VTB Bank caused record damage to the Russian energy sector.

RBC investigation: how much employees of state companies earned in 2015

Business18.02.2016

The economic crisis and the threat of losing jobs didn't much affect the employees of state-owned companies banks: although the salareis didn't increase, mass layoffs have been avoided. Many members of the management didn't even notice the devaluation of the ruble.

Wine for the president: who owns the best winery of the Crimea

Business21.10.2015

This summer, the wines of the new Crimean wine producer Alma Valley appeared in stores. The debutant products have been already appreciated by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. The producer is probably tied to the entities of the head of VTB Andrey Kostin.

VTB Loans have disappeared in suspended construction projects

Business24.08.2015

A sentence was passed on the theft of almost 3 billion rubles.

Between two stools

Business20.08.2015

Roman Abramovich is moving away from Russia, but can not part with it.

VTB sold a part of Vladimir Kehman's banana plantations

Business19.08.2015

VTB Bank has started selling remaining assets of Vladimir Kehman's JFC Group, once the largest importer of bananas: plantations in Latin America. The actions of the bank displeased other JFC creditors.

Moscow money was found in Florence

Crime20.07.2015

President of NPO Cosmos Andrey Chernyakov is accused of large scale credit fraud.   

Poker with bankers: how Igor Zyuzin beat Mechel creditors

Business24.06.2015

Sberbank, VTB and Gazprombank could not deprive the founder of Mechel of control over the company. Now Igor Zyuzin is closer than ever to defeating the creditors

Traces of a businessman led to Liechtenstein

Business27.04.2015

The principality initiated an investigation against the founder of SAHO Group.

Vladimir Yevtushenkov ordered a hit on Central Children's Store in Lubyanka

Business10.04.2015

According to the information of an outlet called Resource Federation, the last scandal with fascist toy soldiers in the Central Children's Store on Lubyanka may have been allegedly stirred by the entities close to oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

All major Kuban companies which had build roads for the Olympic Games in 2014, went bankrupt

Business19.10.2014

After KDB and Tunnel Unit 44, the turn has come for Tonneldorstroy.

A businessman suspected of disobeying the London court

Business14.07.2014

Pavel Skurikhin faces the prosecution in the UK.

"Sheremetyevo" filed a lawsuit to VTB for early repayment of the loan

Business07.04.2014

Airport listed bank $180.1 million of the princial debt and approximately $3.3 million of the credit interest to the bank, but it returned the money.

VTB got rid of Fitch

Business04.02.2014

The agency withdraws the ratings of the state bank and its subsidiaries.

Malofeev demands $600 million from VTB because of Alisher Usmanov

Society27.01.2014

The former largest private shareholder of Rostelecom Konstantin Malofeev intends to collect $ 600 million from VTB: due to the bank's lawsuit he failed to become a partner of Alisher Usmanov.

The Power Machines: how Belarusian businessmen Khotins became Moscow rentiers

Business02.12.2013

In less than14 years, the father and son Khotin have transformed themselves from small businessmen into a real estate development group having the fourth place in the Forbes ranking.