Uralsib group Deputy CEO Ilya Filatov may be named to head MTS Bank. Uralsib reported that Filatov would leave the bank. Alexei Ashurkov, who heads the bank's main retail banking business department, has been named to replace Filatov on an acting basis.

Filatov has been with Uralsib for over nine years. He was named to head retail development and modernization of the bank's retail network in February 2008. Ashurkov arrived at Uralsib in 2006 and was named to head the retail department in 2010.