newspaper Kommersant, which had published an article on financial difficulties at the bank, which suffered a substantial run on deposits and contributed to a mini banking crisis over the summer. 2006 – Alfa-Bank completes the country's first securitisation of diversified payment rights with a $350 million deal. Unaudited first quarter management International Financial Reporting Standards figures show total assets breaking the $10 billion mark for the first time in the company's history. 2007 – Alfa-Bank is raided by Russian police in September in connection with the closure of Sodbiznesbank in 2004. Fitch upgrades Alfa-Bank's rating. 2008 – Alfa-Bank seeks a $400 million government loan in October. It distributes 20,000 Aladdin eToken USB smartcard devices to its online customers. The bank acquires Severnaya Kazna, a major regional bank operating in the Urals region. 2009 – Fitch downgrades Alfa-Bank's rating. 2010s and 2020s 2010 – Alfa-Bank launches a $1 billion 7-year Eurobond. 2011 – Alfa-Bank seeks to buy Bank of Moscow, but the sale goes to VTB Bank. 2012 – In cooperation with Euroset, Alfa-Bank launches a loyalty card credit programme. 2014 – The "Alfa-Amway" Russian loyalty card programme is created when Amway joined with Alfa-Bank. 2016-2017 – It is reported in several media outlets that there had been activity between computer servers belonging to Alfa-Bank and the Trump Organization, an accusation that has been discredited. The FBI investigated the activity in the context of links between Trump associates and Russian officials and concluded that there were no such links and that there might be "an innocuous explanation, like marketing email or spam". Through September 2021, U.S. government investigators had been unable to explain the activity, though a 2018 analysis had concluded there were "reasons to doubt that marketing emails were the cause". A Senate report accepted the FBI's assessment that the activity was "unlikely to have been a covert communications channel" but said there was no explanation for this "unusual activity." In May 2022, Clinton's former campaign manager said that Hillary Clinton had approved of a plan to pitch the now-discredited accusation to the media. 2017 – In March, Alfa-Bank is the target of Ukrainian protests. In July, BuzzFeed News reports that, from December 2014 to the summer of 2017, numerous suspicious money transfers were made between Paul Erickson's accounts, including Wells Fargo Bank accounts, an undisclosed law firm, the NRA of America, Jack Abramoff's son Alex and Abramoff's brother Robert's