Sberbank of Russia - Best Business or Professional Website

Company: Sberbank of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
Company Description: SberBank is the largest bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and one of the leading financial institutions worldwide
Nomination Category: Website Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Business or Professional Services

Nomination Title: Bankofpartners.com - platform for exporters and importers

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As part of Sberbank's strategy to improve the quality of work and service for participants involved in foreign economic activity, Sberbank launched an non-financial service Bank of Business Partners (BBP) – www.bankofpartners.com

BBP – is an open and free online platform for cross-border traders. It connects entrepreneurs and people who just planning to start their own business. It was made to support Russian small and medium-sized businesses in difficult economic conditions by providing them with free tools for expanding business geography.

It gives an opportunity to find professionals of any kind fast and quickly. Users can place any services not prohibited by international law: from meeting at the airport and translation services, to transporting goods from one country to another and consulting services.

BBP offers a perfectly balanced set of filters for searching business partners: country, city, categories and subcategories, hashtags and languages, as well as the opportunity to find several business partners, communicate with them directly and decide whether cooperate with them or not.

BBP considerably simplifies the search of foreign partners and allows entrepreneurs concentrate their time and energy on the development of their business.

Despite the launch of the platform (MVP) at the end of 2017, the main services were developed and launched in 2019-2021.
Now, a registered user are able to promote business worldwide;
-search for business partners, services or products, review the market and competitors;
-add a request for a particular product or service;
-forget about the language barrier with a multilingual interface and auto-translation;
-get a free-of-charge online consultation on banking, HR, logistic, customs or legal issues related to foreign trade business;
-verify trustworthiness of a potential business partner in 212 countries;
-get analytic report containing information on Russian export;
-choose a marketplace for the selling product and region of interest;
-find an information about tenders held in 14 countries in the world;
-evaluate the export potential of the company and get an individual export plan
-participate in online business missions
-find out about government-sponsored events and exhibitions and get a participation grant.

The main objective of the platform is to build the world's best online environment for the entire community of foreign economic activity participants, helping to find people or companies to solve all types of tasks.

BBP was created to remove barriers between entrepreneurs from different countries and to create conditions for a seamless and safe access to export even from a mobile phone.

Over the past year, the service was visited by more than 1M people. By the moment, the number of registered users from 180 countries has reached 65K – they have placed over 17K offers.