The First Czech-Russian Bank (FCRB) was founded in 1996 to service foreign trade turnover and investment projects in Russia and the Czech Republic. It aims to offer banking services to companies involved in Russian-Czech foreign economic relations and those in which Czech firms have invested.

Today, FCRB is a universal financial institution that services successfully large, medium and small businesses in the real sector of the economy.

FCRB was awarded the National Banking Prize as the "Bank with foreign capital that has made the greatest contribution to Russia's economic development."

FCRB is a co-founder of the JSC Bureau of Credit Histories.

The Chairman of the board of the First Czech-Russian Bank is Roman Popov.

In 1992, Roman Popov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.

In 1994, Mr. Popov received a diploma in "Finances and Credit" from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics.

In 1992-2002, he was the Head of the Financial Resources Directorate of Stroitransgaz, a leading Russian engineering construction company in the oil and gas sector.