METROPOL Group is a large holding with businesses in myriad spheres. The company operates in such sectors as stock brokering, asset management, consulting, commercial banking, non-financial investing, mining, setting up industrial holdings, real estate and running a network of tour agencies.

The Group’s main holding is IFC METROPOL. As a brokerage IFC Metropol can trade shares on the largest Russian and international exchanges. It offers management and financial consulting services and other investment opportunities. IFC METROPOL is consistently a leading Russian brokerage by volume on the Russian Trading System stock market. The volume of our transactions in 2006 was about $ 20 billions. The National Association of Participants in the Stock Market (NAUFOR) rated the company as very high reliability with positive forecast with an AA+ grate.

The Group has representative offices in some of the world’s leading financial centers: Metropol (UK) Ltd, Metropol (France), Metropol (China), Metropol (Cyprus) Ltd, and Metropol (Japan). Metropol’s international presence lets it foster cooperation between Russian and foreign industrial and investment companies. METROPOL Group’s goal is to maintain its Russian roots while becoming an international financial and industrial holding.

OBIBANK, a commercial bank, offers a full spectrum of financial services. On results of 2006, OBIBANK has entered into one hundred of the most dynamically developing banks. On January 2007 the bank has made 240,6 % of its growth in 2006, the pure actives reached 9355,3 million roubles and showed an impressive growth in comparison with previous year, having increased in 3,4 times, while pure actives of the 200 largest banks have grown in 2006 for 47,75 %. It has allowed OBIBANK to take place the 140th place in the second hundred of the largest Russian commercial banks on this parameter. The size of the own capital practically hasn’t changed and is estimated in 430,9 million roubles.

METROPOL ASSET MANAGEMENT was established for retail clients and is among the top twenty asset management companies in Russia in terms of net assets managed. The National Association of Participants in the Stock Market (NAUFOR) rated the company as highly reliable with an A- grade. The annual yield of the pension accrual fund was 24,4% in 2006. AM METROPOL founded one of the Russia’s largest closed-end real estate investment fund (CERIF), called METROPOL Olymp. At that point, this fund amounted to 7 billion rubles.

MBC RESOURCES is an international mining consortium that was founded to develop metals deposits in the Russian Republic of Buryatiya and build infrastructure there. The company possess 47 % of total Russian zinc reserves and 24 % of total Russian lead reserves.

The Group also works in the real estate market through METROPOL DEVELOPMENT that manages assets worth more than US$ 500 mn. Among the company’s main actives are complex of industrial and office buildings of the former plant Moskvitch (more than 300 000 m2), management of the projects on building of multifunctional trading office complexes in Moscow (about 150 000 m2), management of the project on building of business centre in Ulan-Ude (17 500 m2). In 3Q 2006, together with AM METROPOL the company founded one of the Russia’s largest closed-end real estate investment fund (CERIF), called METROPOL Olymp. At that point, this fund amounted to 7 billion rubles.

The leasing company MBC LEASING, that showed over 78 % of the increase of the gainful enclosure in the tangible assets in 2006. The company possesses upwards of 1 billion rubles of the financial asset in the securities of the external agency.

The Group also includes Travel Agency Network METROPOL EXPRESS that offers all kinds of travel services. In 2005, its airline ticket sales reached $4.1 mn.

Insurance provider of the Group is MBC GARANT. In the nearest future, the company plans to increase its charter capital to create a full-range of insurance products and expand its insurance coverage.