In 1995, it became the fifth Latvian bank in terms of assets. In the same year, it started developing its regional information centre network in the cities of the CIS and the Baltic region. In 1996, Rietumu Bank started offering its customers various trust programs that later played an important role in the bank's development strategy. In 1997, Michael Bourke became the President of Rietumu Bank, after having worked within the framework of Phare consulting programme under the President of the Bank of Latvia.   In 1998, the bank opened a range of new branches and continued developing the Corporate Banking, which in 1999, allowed Rietumu Bank to become the leading corporate service provider in Latvia. In 1999, Rietumu Bank started accepting deposits in Euro.