In the rating of 100 reliable banks according to Forbes, Sberbank took the first place for the second year in a row. VTB is on the second line.

Also in the top 5 were Russian “subsidiaries” of foreign banks – Raiffeisenbank, Rosbank (Societe Generale Group and Unicredit. Last year the top-3 rating included Sber, Raiffeisenbank and Rosbank.

When compiling the rating, we took into account the assessments of banks’ creditworthiness in national currency by Russian rating agencies (ACRA, Expert RA, NKR and NRA) as of February 1, as well as the size of bank assets. Unlike previous years, Forbes did not use ratings from international rating agencies (Fitch, Moody’s and S&P).

As a result, financial organizations within the hundred are divided into five reliability groups. The highest one (AAA ratings on the national scale) includes 22 credit organizations – two state-owned banks (Sber and VTB) and subsidiaries of foreign banks in Russia.

Among private Russian banks, Alfa Bank has the highest position (24th place). It is in the next most reliable category, which includes banks with ratings AA+, AA and AA- on the national scale.