OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow hosted the annual awards ceremony for nominees of the National Competition’s Dealer of the Year 2012 which announced the best professionals on the financial market in Russia.

NOMOS-BANK and its employees took prizes in 4 of 7 nominations and first place in 3 categories.

NOMOS-BANK won The Best Forward & Options Desk in 2012 and took second place in The Best Forex Desk 2012.

NOMOS-BANK employees also won both The Best Forex Dealer 2012 and The Best Forward & Options Dealer 2012 awards.

NOMOS is currently the sixth largest banking group in Russia by total assets and the second largest privately-owned Russian universal banking group with total assets of RUB 899.9 billion and equity of RUB 90.4 billion under audited IFRS accounts for 2012.

As at 31 December 2012, NOMOS had an extensive branch network in Russia with 300 offices in the economically important regions of the Russian Federation, with the majority of its business concentrated in Moscow, St Petersburg, Tyumen (including the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous district), the Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk regions.

NOMOS provides a full range of banking services to corporate, small business and retail clients. As at 31 December 2012, NOMOS served approximately 13,500 corporate customers, 85,800 small business clients and almost 1.5m retail customers, including private banking clients.

NOMOS has long-term international credit ratings of BB from Fitch and Ba3 from Moody’s (stable outlook for both ratings).