How it started
History
It was established on 3 October 1990 as a joint-stock company Lenbank, a year later it received its current name. In June 1998, St. Petersburg was the first among city banks to receive permission from the Central Bank of Russia to issue cash from card accounts.
In the fall of 2007, St. Petersburg was the first private bank in Russia that did IPO, received permission from the Federal Financial Markets Service to issue receipts, but further, refused listing on the foreign stock exchange (receipts were converted into ordinary shares that are now in circulation in the several number of Russian stock exchanges).
As of January 1, 2018, the bank served 1.93 million individuals and 50 thousand companies.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bank Saint Petersburg, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2