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Expert RA: sales of the largest 2011 rating participants totaled 508.4 bln rubles
Expert RA rating agency made a review of the information-communication technology market and a list of the largest IT-companies in 2011. Expert RA: sales of the largest 2011 participants in “Russian information-communication technology” rating achieved its historic maximum in the whole rating period and totaled 508.4 bln rubles.
According to Expert RA, incremental revenue of the rating IT-companies reached 30.7%. The IT market in 2011 grew up, substantially outpacing the inflation rate.
Quantity indicators at the ICT market are supported by new level of quality. Primary automation of many key processes has been completed in large companies, new projects are mostly approached in a comprehensive way to unify procedures and cut down expenses for integration and technical support in future. Besides, together with the private sector a comprehensive approach to automation was adopted by the State, too.
“The market growth drivers remained unchanged: oil and gas, telecommunications, finance, says Aleksey Khodyrev, Expert RA chief analyst. The State in 2011 behaved actively, volume of orders for IT grew faster in the State sector than in the private one”.
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Expert RA assigned rating to Kursk oblast mortgage agency
Expert RA rating agency assigned A (high) rating of service quality for mortgage support to Kursk oblast mortgage agency (KOIA).
Key positive factors: substantial experience in mortgage support (over 7 years) and highly regulated basic business-processes for mortgage support.
Negative factors: moderately high outstanding debt in mortgage support portfolio, low risk- management regulation. The Agency analysts also see risks unrelated to mortgage support activity.
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Expert RA Research
Internet banking in Russia: from reduced expenditures to revenues
Current internet-banking systems already provide for small "online" client operations, thus cutting bank operation costs, but do not bring serious revenues so far. Profitable remote servicing requires interface simplification and better security.
Leasing market in 2011: not to forget the crisis lessons
New business volumes hit records: leasing market is still not protected from bad debt crisis of 2008-2009, although share of outstanding debts has fallen below 1%. Only a small number of companies may boast good risk management, and tough competition is followed by downgrading assessment criteria of leasing receivers. Therefore Expert RA expects dramatic decrease of the market growth rates in 2012, causing small companies to leave the market or be "conserved".
Medical insurance: VHI and MHI synergy
Parallel worlds: MHI and VHI synergy will make healthcare financing more transparent and efficient. Till recently the systems application fields were totally different. MHI reform complicated conditions for insurance medical organizations and launched the process of combining business activities of companies engaged in MHI and VMI. The next logical step is to bring about joint MHI and VMI products. It will require sufficient changes on legislative, financial and technical levels. Otherwise VHI will be repetitive of MHI with grey payments remaining the simpliest way to improve quality of personal medical services.
SME crediting in Russia: big banks brace for revenge
SME loan portfolio grew in 2011 by mere 19% or 3.8 trln rubles visibly falling behind retail and big business loans. The reason was growing mandatory contributions and shifted priorities of top-30 Russian banks to big business segment due to unstable liquidity. In 2012 big banks may restore their position by consulting borrowers and adapting retail technologies to SME segment. Small banks, on the opposite, may slow down due to changed SME product line of the Bank. Therefore total increment is to reach 20%-22%, a bit better than in 2011.
Russian asset management market, 2011
Asset management market is more and more filled with pension money: by 2011 share of pension assets exceeded 40%, in 2012 it will achieve 50%, according to Expert RA. In coming years NSPF money will make the only area of growth for management companies, NSPS becoming powerful channels for sales of retail investment funds. Not to lose competitive edge in pension funds area, management companies are to get modernized by way of increased credibility and industrial consolidation.
Interviewing participants of the II annual conference "Personnel for economic modernization"
The II annual conference "Personnel for economic modernization" took place on March 21, 2012, organized by Rating RA. Participants were interviewed. Respondents (42 HR directors of Russian companies, heads of consulting companies and officials from profile ministries) were asked questions on main problems of personnel preparation in the system of professional education, and labour protection at production facilities.
Personnel efficient use: professional standards and industrial safety
Current professional education in Russia is not in line with demands of employers. The reason is poor education standards in relation to modern demands and absence of uniufied education standards in Russia.
Town development strategic plan
To bring Russian towns up-to-date a town development strategic plan is to be prepared - a basic federal level document setting priorities for development of Russian towns, mechanisms and sequence of implementation. Another task of importance is to find, generalize and promote best practices of town development in Russia during the All-Russia competition for the best town development solutions.
Town environment in Russia - development barometer
In September 2011 Expert RA conducted studies of Russian town environment. 574 respondents from 84 Russian towns were involved. Respondents, mostly from Open Innovation Union (OIU, www.oiu.ru), were asked to assess their native town and two more familiar towns. Particularly, respondents answered a number of questions, related to a current level of local information, communication and energy efficient technologies, transportation and innovation infrastructure, safety and social relations.
Innovation entrepreneurs in Russia - rating
Studying results of the first Russian entrepreneurs rating bring forth dubious conclusions. On the one hand, 17 businessmen from 14 companies make an extremely small figure for a country of 140 million people. But there is a flipside to the story: at the World Political Forum in Yaroslavl, 2010, the state made the point of bringing up at least ten companies with annual turnover amounting to 100 mln dollars and later leveling them even higher, with business volumes exceeding billions such companies might claim the place among the world innovation leaders.
Innovation activity - big business and state-participation companies
The world experience testifies to the fact that the key role in innovation activity is played by business structures. R&D corporation share exceeds 65% of national R&D expenses and averages 70% in OECD countries. Russian big business is quite slow and disinterested as far as innovations are concerned.
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