For the first time the awards were presented to winners of the new categories: "Investment company of the year" and "PR company of the year". In total, winners in 23 categories were announced, including the traditional "Bank of the year", "Banker of the year", "People's choice", "Man of the year" and others.
"Bank of the year" © is an annual professional award established by the banki.ru portal 10 years ago in 2007.
Award goals: to establish the best organizations on the Russian financial market by the results of the calendar year; to provide clients with reliable and impartial information for choosing a partnering company, and to help business define reference points for further development.
The winners in the "People's choice", "Insurance company People's choice", " "People's choice of mobile service providers", "Belorussian People's choice", "The man of the year" categoies were selected based on the results of the portal users' poll, the others - by the "Banki.ru" experts.