At the end of May, Alfa-Bank registered Alfa-Digital, an IT company. The company will become an IT development center of the bank, and in the future the new company will become a provider of digital solutions for external customers.

About 1.2 thousand employees, including developers, analysts and other staff, will be transferred to Alfa-Digital by the beginning of 2023. In the future, the team can grow to 5,000 specialists (in total, Alfa-Bank has 7.1 thousand employees working in IT and Digital areas). The bank also plans to transfer part of its software solutions to the register of Russian software, and then transfer them to the balance of Alfa-Digital.

Special of the bank explain that “the transfer to an IT company will also enable employees to receive benefits from the state.” Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Sovcombank, Tinkoff Bank already have similar IT companies.

Earlier, the Central Bank stated that the regulator supported the recognition of banks as IT companies. Over the past three months, the number of IT companies in the register of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media has grown by 40% and exceeded 26,000.

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