Alfa-Bank was founded in 1990. Alfa-Bank is a universal bank to all major banking operations on the market of financial services, including retail and corporate clients, investment banking, trade finance and asset management.As of early 2011, the client base of Alfa-Bank was about 40 thousand corporate customers and 5.3 million individuals. In Moscow, Russian regions and abroad opened 364 branch and a branch of the bank, including a subsidiary in the Netherlands and financial subsidiaries in the U.S., the UK and Cyprus.Banking group "Alfa-Bank" has recorded the biggest net profit in its 20-year history in the amount of 553 million U.S. dollars, return on equity, in turn, reached the level of 19.1%. Aggregate capital net of dividends in the amount of U.S. $ 150 million increased by 14.1% to 3.1 billion. The capital adequacy ratio by the standards of Basel I was 18.2% at December 31, 2010 (20.2% at 31 December 2009).The financial results of the Bank group "Alfa-Bank" drawn up in accordance with international financial reporting standards and checked by auditors of the company PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Support national art - one of the priorities of cultural and educational activities of Alfa Bank. With the assistance of Alfa-Bank Russia was visited by many world-famous foreign musicians. With the support of Alfa Bank in Russia's regions theater festivals are held annually with the winners of the national award "Golden Mask", concert artists of the Bolshoi Theatre, the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky theater, chamber ensemble "Moscow Soloists" under the direction of Yuri Bashmet, the best jazz groups of the country, many exhibition.
Alfa-Bank is a member of the Corporate Club WWF Russia, an ongoing training program for Russian students "Alfa Chance", provides financial support to the charity program helping seriously ill children "life line."