Rating is a very interesting phenomenon, you can rate almost anything, even if there is no apparent reason for it. From this perspective, Forbes magazine decided to draw up a rating of the most reliable among the most unreliable companies.
We are talking about Russian banks. Given the speed with which the Central Bank of Russia revokes their licenses, it is not appropriate to talk about their reliability, but it does not matter when it comes to ratings! Even such banks can be rated. The legendary Sberbank leads the list of the most reliable, secure and trustworthy banks. According to official data, Sberbank assets amounted to RUB 22.337 trillion as of January 1, 2017. Moody agency rated the bank Ba2, and Fitch, BBB-. How could any company with such rating land on the first place? Apparently, you have not seen others yet!
The second rank is given to UniCredit Bank owned by the Italian group UniCredit. S&P experts rated UniCredit Bank Russia BB+, and Fitch, BBB-. The bank's capital is RUB 1.197 trillion. Rosbank rounds up the top three with assets of RUB 786.5 billion. The fourth and fifth ranks are given to Raiffeisenbank and Citibank, respectively. Intesa, Bank Of China, VTB, Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank and Alfa-Bank were also among the top ten most reliable Russian banks.