Alfa-Bank was founded in 1990. Alfa-Bank is a universal bank to all major types of banking transactions in the market of financial services, including private and corporate clients, investment banking, trade finance and asset management.

Banking group "Alfa Bank" is Russia's largest private bank by total assets, total capital and size of deposits. In the first half of 2010, the group will continue its development as a universal bank in the following areas: corporate and investment bank, commercial finance and leasing, retail banking (including a system of branch banking, auto loans and mortgages). On September 1, 2010 the client base of Alfa-Bank was about 39 thousand corporate customers and 4.3 million individuals. In Moscow, Russian regions and abroad, opened 331 office and branch office, including a subsidiary bank in the Netherlands and financial subsidiaries in the U.S. and the UK.