Russia's Sberbank ranks 82nd among world's largest banks '05

Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, ranked 82nd among the world's largest banks in 2005, in accordance with the ratings of The Banker magazine, Russian business daily Vedomosti said Tuesday.

The Banker is part of the Financial Times Group.

The Financial Times is also one of the shareholders of Business News Media, the publisher of Vedomosti.

Sberbank also ranked 17 among the 25 largest banks in Central and Eastern Europe, according to The Banker's ratings. In 2004 Sberbank was 138th in the Banker's ratings, Vedomosti said. Below are other Russian banks included in The Banker's ratings of the world' largest banks in 2005, as published by Vedomosti:

Place	Bank	Capital in billions of U.S. dollars
82	Sberbank	7.477
122	Vneshtorgbank	4.927
254	Gazprombank	1.790
369	International Industrial Bank	1.097
437	Alfa Bank	0.852
511	Rosbank	0.689
513	MDM Bank	0.688
516	Bank of Moscow	0.682
581	Vnesheconombank	0.573
638	National Reserve Bank	0.483
659	NOMOS-Bank	0.462
699	Russian Standard Bank	0.420
725	Globexbank	0.388
729	Rosselkhozbank	0.383
731	Promsvyazbank	0.383
744	UralSib Bank	0.373
801	AK Bars Bank	0.325
819	Petrocommerce Bank	0.307
869	Internationals Moscow Bank	0.277
881	Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank	0.270
901	Evrofinance Mosnarbank	0.263
923	Zenit Bank	0.251

Citibank and Raiffeisenbank Austria, Russian subsidiaries of U.S. Citigroup and Austria's Raiffeisenbank banking group, have also been included in The Banker's rating, Vedomosti said, without providing their places.

The Banker rated the following Russian banks using financial results for 2004: MDM Bank, Bank of Moscow, Vnesheconombank, National Reserve Bank, UralSib Bank, Citibank, AK Bars Bank, Bank Petrocommerce, Internationals Moscow Bank, Raiffeisenbank Austria and Zenit Bank, Vedomosti said.

The major gauge for The Banker's ratings is first tier capital, which is charter capital plus undistributed profit.