In April 2013, the Russian banking sector was driven by the same principal trends that were observed in the first quarter of the year. Real sector lending kept slowing down in spite of higher growth rates in household savings. In addition, allowances for provisions for losses on loans and other...

February 2015 saw almost all of the trends prevailing over the recent months: the retail credit portfolio saw nega- tive growth rates, the quality of the credit portfolio kept deteriorating both in the corporate and retail segments of the credit market, the debt owed to non-residents kept...

In January 2014, banks generated extra revenues of Rb 39bn from the devaluation of the ruble , whereas adverse dynamics of household disposable incomes triggered worsening of the quality of retail loans. Banks keep being dependent on monetary authorities’ resources.

In December 2013 customers kept migrating to largest banks, above all, state-run ones regarding the key segments of the banking service market while basic balance sheet figures slowed down. A new highest value of the debt owed by banks to the monetary authorities overtopped Rb 4,5 trillion. For...

In early 2015, Russia’s banking sector was operating under an increasing impact from several negative trends that had first become prominent towards the end of 2014. January 2015 became the second-in-a-row loss making month for banks, the second-in-a-row month of declining debt against retail...

In January 2013, the Russian banking sector has entered a phase of a standstill, inherent to the first month of a year. The key indicators of credit activity and the dynamics of funds raised during the month have slowed down. In addition, the medium-term slowing-down trends were sustained in the...

In September, the growth rate of the banking sector assets remained low. At the same time, the trend of slowing lending to the economy was observed not only in the corporate segment, but in the retail segment of the credit market as well.

Annual growth of budget expenditures, observed in December, has resulted in the funds extension of households and corporate clients with the bank accounts. This has urged a traditional growth of bank liquidity, which, however, has only slightly exceeded the refinancing rate of the Bank of Russia...

In October, the only source of growth of banks’ fund raising were government agencies, including the Central Bank. All other sectors acted as net beneficiaries. As a result, banking sector own liquidity (liquid assets less funds of monetary authorities) reached the minimum level in both,...

In November of this year the rate of individual savings in bank deposits has significantly increased. However, neither this fact, nor the continued active government support to the banks failed to prevent the slowdown of lending to both, individuals and corporate borrowers. Also, the banking...