The presence of a Bank in walking distance is a great advantage, which can be compared with the access to the liquor store. On Friday, July 1, in the framework of the International financial Congress, held in St. Petersburg, said the head of VTB Andrey Kostin.
“We use the most modern technology, but still believe that the presence is within walking distance, like the liquor store and the Bank is a big advantage,” he said.
Thus Kostin commented on the group’s plans to expand its presence in Russia Mail of the Bank (created by the VTB group). According to him, customers of the new credit institution will be 20 million people. Many of them do not use the services of any banks, he said.
Mail the Bank opened its first service point in the offices of “Mail of Russia” in April of 2016. Overall during the year it is planned to launch four thousand Windows Mail Bank, which provide some types of financial services will be employees of “Mail”.
The financial institution was launched in Jan. It was created on the basis of affiliated structure of VTB 24 Bank Summer. A new organization was headed by the Chairman of the Board of Summer Bank Dmitry Rudenko. In the Mail of the Bank Supervisory Board included representatives of the Ministry of communications, “Mail of Russia” and VTB group.
7 September 2015, the General Director of “Mail of Russia” Dmitry Strashnov said that until 2023 the project will bring to the postal operator about 60 billion rubles.
