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The Russia Partners Foundation sells part of its shares in Banki.ru

VTB Capital Investment Bank, on behalf of the Banki.ru group, put up for sale part of the shares of the Russia Partners Fund, which owns 40% of the Banki.ru shares. This is reported by Vedomosti, citing representatives of companies with whom the terms of the offer have already been discussed. One of these conditions is the right of the founders to retain a controlling stake.



The assessment of the entire group is $ 40-60 million according to rumors, which, however, have been refuted by the general director of the Banki.ru company, Philip Ilin-Adayev. Other sources believe that the Banki.ru group itself is not interested in the transaction: “Banki.ru has enough free funds for development, it does not need investments”.



The Banki.ru group is the largest information resource in banking services in Russia. In 2014, the resource activity field expanded due to the promotion of insurance services. In the development plans of "Banki.ru" - by the end of 2015 to grow to the largest aggregator of insurance products in RuNet. In addition to the main resource, the Banki.ru group includes Mycreditinfo.ru and Finparty, Infobank.by (Belarus) and Banki.ua (Ukraine).

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Last year, the group's consolidated revenue increased by 35% and reached 570 million rubles. Group profitability increased from 24% to 35% per year.



The reasons for the increase in revenue are the growth of the audience by more than 100% and the profit from the new service “Special offers”. In a special section, banks place information on deposits on special conditions, and the group receives an agent commission. In 2014, resource users made deposits on special conditions in the amount of 14.5 billion rubles.



The share of the founders in the Banki.ru group is 60%, while the share of Russia Partners is 40% so far. Sources familiar with the negotiation process told the Kommersant publication that Russia Partners are not in a hurry to part with the shares, but are willing to withdraw from the group’s capital in part if they are offered a good deal: in the coming years. "

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/286828/



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