March 12, 2007

For the fifth consecutive year BPC will sponsor the 5th annual Russian Retail Banking Forum to be held from 13 to 15 June 2007 at Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow. The event is organized by Adam Smith Institute (London, UK), among Sponsors are Visa International, Aviva, International Moscow Bank, Crif Decision Solutions, SAS, Roland Berger and others.

The forum will traditionally feature presentations and discussions on retail banking developments focusing on the following issues: analysis of market trends and competitive growth strategies, M&A, credit bureaux results, regional expansion strategies, managing credit risk, collection agencies, securitization of retail products, optimizing a bank’s distribution channels, marketing and branding strategies, consumer lending product portfolio development, money transfers, payment cards infrastructure, co-branding and fraud, and many other issues.

Speakers will include representatives of banking associations, top managers of the leading Russian and foreign banks, major executives from international payment schemes and credit organizations. Among their number are Alfa Bank, Rosbank, Raiffeizenbank, bank “Vozrozhdeniye”, Svenska Handelsbanken, Lloyds TSB, GE Money Bank, BNP Paribas, Delta Credit, Russian Standard Bank, Rusfinance, Visa International, MasterCard and others.

On Day 2 of the conference (14 June, Thursday), Anatoly Loginov, CEO BPC Group, will take a speaking slot in Session 7 “Optimizing Banking Distribution Channels”, presenting the ways of service delivery channels integration through a single technology platform.

At BPC's booth in the conference showroom the visitors will be able to network with BPC’s representatives and to explore in more detail company’s product offering for the retail banking sector, based on the SmartVista Suite and partner solutions.

More information about Russian Retail Banking Forum is available at www.finance-russia.com.

The conference brochure can be downloaded as PDF file.