Bank Saint Petersburg received an award at the annual FINAWARD Award in the field of innovations and achievements of the financial industry for "A new approach to foreign economic activity and the best comprehensive expertise"
Bank Saint Petersburg was awarded the FINAWARD Award in the field of innovations and Achievements of the financial industry for "A new approach to foreign economic activity and the best comprehensive expertise" at the end of 2020.
The award was established by the media project "Banking Review". The Award focuses on the most striking product and IT implementations in the financial sector. The winners of the Award are determined by an expert council of representatives of the Russian financial community. Banks, financial companies and their projects are awarded separately in special nominations for individual achievements in the Russian financial market during the reporting period. More information about the Award:
https://finaward.ru/.
In total, over 70 banks and companies, 98 projects and solutions were represented in the FAN AWARD for 2020, while the number of pre-reviewed projects exceeded 800. Bank Saint Petersburg received an award and diploma for "A new approach to foreign economic activity and comprehensive expertise."
The Bank has moved away from simple product offers to participants in foreign economic activity. Today, foreign economic activity at Bank Saint Petersburg is a real ecosystem that operates on a one-stop—shop basis. The Bank provides exporters and importers with a range of services (both banking and non-banking), which covers all aspects of its activities to the maximum and helps to conduct foreign economic activity more efficiently. "The effectiveness of the new approach is evidenced by the results of 2020 — a 30% increase in the volume of new foreign economic activity contracts and an 8% increase in the number of foreign economic activity clients. At the same time, we recall that in the first half of 2020, there was a decrease in customer activity in the foreign economic activity market due to the pandemic, but despite external conditions, the dynamics of foreign economic activity of Bank Saint Petersburg significantly exceeded the market, for example, the market decreased by 17%, and the volume of customer payments in the Bank increased by 3%.
But these successes are not a reason to stop there. Foreign trade support is the Bank’s focus area in 2021. We have ambitious plans, we are preparing new projects that we will present to the market in the near future," commented Sergey Noritsin, Director of the Directorate of Foreign Trade Operations of Bank Saint Petersburg.