Information and Investment Platforms as a Driver of Regional Banking Systems Development

Entrepreneurship, understood as an ongoing process of creating opportunities to meet human needs and the resources required for it, is in dire need of information aggregators. There are two reasons for this need. First, the dynamic nature of market relations. Only in the course of market actions of economic agents in the long term can the lack of coordination between them be revealed, leading to a decrease in the efficiency of the entire economic system. The information openness of society is not only a source of entrepreneurial profit, but also a driver of economic growth. Secondly, the need for information is justified by the competitive nature of market relations. Since business profits are possible if there is a certain degree of inefficiency in the economy, some economic agents are interested in preserving it and maintaining the status quo. The competition, generated by the availability of information on the possibility of profit. Thus, one of the main activities of the state in the field of investment incentives should be the creation of information platforms that contribute to obtaining the information necessary for doing business. The study analyzed two approaches to investment, industry and regional, and concluded that it was necessary to integrate them when considering information and investment platforms (cluster approach). At the same time, the emphasis is placed on the importance of the regional banking system (RBS) for the investment process in the regions. Despite the efforts of the regional authorities to attract investment in public-private partnership projects, there is still the insufficient attention is paid to the provision of information in which investors are really interested. This paper, based on a statistical analysis of the data on the activities of RBS banking institutions, draws conclusions on what data may interest potential investors in it.