MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Globex bank, a leading Russian commercial bank, said Wednesday that its net profit had risen 70% year-on-year in 2005 to about $34 million.
The bank's assets grew 40% year-on-year in 2005, reaching about $1.7 billion, and its shareholders' equity increased to $388 million from $371 million.
Globex bank is on a list of the country's top thirty banks published by the Bank of Russia.