Home Credit & Finance Bank

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Home Bank is a private retail bank headquartered in Moscow. It was registered by the Bank of Russia in 1992 under the name Innovation Bank "Technopolis". In 2002, after the acquisition of 100% share by the international group Home Credit, the bank began to work under the name of LLC "HCF Bank" (ХКФ банк).

Home Bank
Native name
Хоум Банк, ХКФ Банк
Company typeLLC
HCFB
IndustryFinancial services
PredecessorInnovation Bank Technopolis
Founded2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Headquarters
Moscow
,
Russia
Key people
Alexander Skabara (Chairman of the Board),
Jiri J Smejc (Directors Board Chairman)
Revenue69,766,000,000 Russian ruble (2019) Edit this on Wikidata
Increase RUB 46.2 billion (2019)
Increase RUB 15.8 billion (2019)
Total assetsIncrease RUB 343.8 billion (2019)
Total equityIncrease RUB 84.4 billion (2019)
OwnerPPF
ParentHome Credit BV
SubsidiariesHome Credit Bank Kazakhstan, JSC
RatingBB− (Fitch) (2020)
A(RU) (ACRA) (2022)
ruBBB+ (Expert RA) (2022)
Websitewww.homecredit.ru

It ranked 35th in terms of assets, and it was among the top 15 banks in the Russian retail lending market. It possessed the following ratings of Russian and international rating agencies: Fitch — "CC", Expert RA — "ruBBB+" and ACRA — "A(RU)". In November 2020, the bank was headed by Dmitry Peshnev-Podolsky. Under his leadership, Home Credit Bank is preparing for the next step of digital transformation and business diversification process.

Home Credit Russia is the one from two, the largest subsidiaries of the group of the same name. HCFB (including Kazakhstan operations) reported a net profit of 3.7 billion Ruble in 1H2020, as against 15.8 billion Ruble during 2019.

In February 2024, Sovcombank announced its intention to buy Home Credit. The deal is planned to be completed in 2024-2025. 51% will be purchased for shares of Sovcombank's additional issue (5%), then the remaining 49% for cash.

Activity

 
Office of Home Credit Bank near Voykovskaya metro station in Moscow

Through the wide branch network in Russia (more than 116 thousand points of sale) and online channels, HCFB offers POS loans and installments, unsecured cash loans, credit and debit cards, deposits. The bank is one of the two Russian instalment card issuers in the country and develops its product under the Svoboda brand. Together with its sister companies "Always YES" (Credit Brokerage) and "Forward Leasing" (Leasing), HCFB forms an ecosystem of loans for purchases.

HCFB was the inventor in Russia of the business idea of interest-free instalments, which since 2007 were launched in large retail chains in the format of 0-0-24, 0-0-10. In 2017, the bank was the first in Russia to launch a marketplace of goods purchased in installments. Home Credit Russia had a market share to 22% within POS loans as of end 2019.

 

In 2018, the bank was the first to issue a loan with completely remote customer identification through a Unite Biometric System [ru]. In 2020, HCFB was the first to implement the possibility of purchasing goods in instalments directly on the social network VKontakte.

In November 2023, the bank was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy.

Key indicators

Table 1. Key performance indicators, per year (in Russian Ruble Millions, MRUB)

Index (MRUB) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Net profit 3,659  5,179  9,411  10,754  19,056  11 105  -4,524  -8,814  7,745  14,245  13,809  15,772
Operating income 25,920  24,345  24,706  32,342  61,576  90,296  69,907  43,674  39,397  40,179  43,145  46,169
Assets 113,449  96,476  101,099  155,689  337,816  358,934  338,740  267,923  237,591  296,210  327,790  343,847
Loan portfolio 82,014  58,929  75,275  112,833  223,803  285,913  244,779  178,418  170,945  208,249  245,354  262,411
Equity 20,598  26,833  33,019  30,547  46,823  55,196  52,648  39,654  43,797  52,873  63,086  85,402

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