Bank Saint Petersburg

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.

Sanctions

Bank Saint Petersburg was sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom on 24 February 2023 in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The UK increased sanctions in December 2023 to prohibit correspondent banking relationships.

In March 2023, applications of Russian banks that were included in the updated sanctions list in February 2023 were removed from Google Play. Among them is the Bank St. Petersburg application. In addition, applications from the banks Uralsib, Zenit and MTS Bank were also removed from Google Play.