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attractiveness for external audience. ? In February Tinkoff Bank was named Russia's Best-Performing Bank, based on 17 metrics including growth,

profitability, operational efficiency, asset quality, return on risk, liquidity, soundness and leverage, according

to The Banker, a leading international financial publication which is part of the Financial Times Group.

CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION

Tinkoff management team will host an investor and analyst conference call at 2:00 pm UK time (5:00 pm Moscow time, 09:00 am U.S. Eastern Standard Time), on Thursday, 11 March 2021.

The press release, presentation and financial statements will be available on the Tinkoff website at https:// www.tinkoff.ru/eng/ir/financials/quarterly-earnings/

To participate in the conference call, please use the following access details:

                          9555581 
Conference ID 
 
 
 
                          [phone] 
Russian Federation 
                          8 10 8002 8675011 
Toll-free 
 
United Kingdom            [phone] 
Toll-free                 0800 279 7204 
United States of America  [phone] 
Toll-free                 888-254-3590 

A live webcast of the presentation will be available at:

https://www.webcast-eqs.com/tcsgroup20210311

Please register approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call.

For enquiries: 
Tinkoff                         Tinkoff 
Artem Lebedev                   Larisa Chernysheva 
PR Department                   IR Department 
+ 7 495 648-10-00 (ext. 2202)   + 7 495 648-10-00 (ext. 2312) 
Alexandr Leonov                 Neri Tollardo 
+ 7 495 648-10-00 (ext. 35738)  [phone] 
[e-mail]                   [e-mail] 
 

About Tinkoff Group

TCS Group Holding PLC is an innovative provider of online retail and SME financial services. It includes Tinkoff Bank, its mobile virtual network operator Tinkoff Mobile, Tinkoff Insurance, its asset management company Tinkoff Capital, Tinkoff Software DC, a network of development hubs in major Russian cities, and Tinkoff Education. The Group is currently developing Tinkoff ecosystem, which offers financial and lifestyle services.

The Group was founded in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov and has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since October 2013.

The Group's key business is Tinkoff Bank, a fully online bank that serves over 13 mn customers and forms the core of the Tinkoff ecosystem. Tinkoff is the 3d largest retail bank in Russia in terms of active client-base.

Tinkoff Bank is the second largest player in the Russian credit card market, with a share of 14.0%. The 4Q'20 IFRS net profit of TCS Group Holding PLC amounted to RUB 12.3 bn. The ROE was 40.5%.

With no branches, the Group serves all its customers remotely via online channels and a cloud-based call centre. The centre is staffed by over 10,000 employees, making it one of the largest in Europe. To ensure smooth delivery of the Group's products, the Group has a nationwide network of over 2,500 representatives.

Global Finance named Tinkoff Bank the world's Best Consumer Digital Bank in 2020 and 2018, and the Best Consumer Digital Bank in Russia in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016 and 2015. Tinkoff was also named the Best European Retail Bank of the Year by Retail Banker International in 2020. In 2021, the Banker recognised Tinkoff Bank as Russia's Best-Performing Bank. The bank's mobile app has been consistently praised by local and global independent experts as the best of its kind (in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 by Deloitte and in 2018 by Global Finance).

UK MAR

This announcement is released by TCS Group Holding plc and contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal Act) 2018 ("UK MAR"), encompassing certain information relating to the suspension of dividends and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of UK MAR.

Forward-looking statements

Some of the information in this announcement may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the Group and Tinkoff Bank. You can identify forward looking statements by terms such as "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "intend", "will", "could," "may" or "might", the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. The Group and Tinkoff Bank wish to caution you that these statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. The Group and Tinkoff Bank do not intend to update these statements to reflect events and circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Many factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in projections or forward-looking statements of the Group and Tinkoff Bank, including, among others, general economic conditions, the competitive environment, risks associated with operating in Russia, rapid technological and market change in the industries the Group operates in, as well as many other risks specifically related to the Group, Tinkoff Bank and their respective operations. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ISIN:          US87238U2033 
Category Code: ACS 
TIDM:          TCS 
LEI Code:      549300XQRN9MR54V1W18 
Sequence No.:  95262 
EQS News ID:   1174756 
 
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