ArmInfo. Business Bank "Otkritie" in Moscow and the Moscow region will be headed by the Director General of VTB Bank (Armenia), the head of the Directorate of VTB Bank (Armenia) Yuri Gusev. This was announced during a press conference on January 21 in Yerevan by Vladimir Verkhoshinsky, board member, deputy head of the Global Business Line of Retail Business of VTB Bank (PJSC).
"We thank and say goodbye to Yuri Gusev, who has been working for 9 years at VTB Bank of Armenia, and for 6 years he headed one of the main banks of VTB Group. Gusev decided to return to Russia, where he will head the Moscow business bank "Otkritie".
Yuri Gusev was born on April 4, 1980. He has two higher education: technical and economic. In the VTB Group since 2008. Previously, from 2009 to 2012, he held the position of Director of the Financial Department of CJSC VTB Bank (Armenia). In 2009 he worked as the head of the Financial Department of CJSC VTB Bank (Armenia). From 2008 to 2009 He worked at OJSC VTB in the Department of Subsidiary Banks. In 2006 he worked in the consulting company OTP Ltd., specializing in the creation of financial systems in the banking sector. Since 2005, he started his professional activity in OJSC Bank ZENIT.
Bank , a member of the 20 largest banks in Russia, fell under the redevelopment of the CBR in August last year. According to RBC, the Bank's reorganization is under a new scheme - with the participation of the Central Bank as an investor using funds managed by the Central Bank of the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund (FCCC). The reasons for the worsening of the financial situation of the bank the Central Bank called a risky business model, lending to business owners, an unsuccessful rehabilitation of the Trust bank, as well as the acquisition of Rosgosstrakh and a number of related assets. To maintain the liquidity of the bank, the Central Bank sent a record 1 trillion rubles. The authorized capital of the FC in November 2017 was reduced to 1 ruble, and in early December the regulator bought 99.9% of the shares of FC Opening in the additional share issue for 456.2 billion rubles. As of January 1, the capital of FC Otkrytie was 129.5 billion rubles. Since 2018, the chairman of the board of "FC Opening" was headed by VTB24 Mikhail Zadornov.