In 2016, the volume of bank lending resumed growth. However, its level remains below the 2014 indicators and is insufficient to curtail the reduction of the population's loan debt volumes. There is a shift in the retail bank lending debt structure in favor of the long-term and cheaper mortgages....

In the first eight months of 2018 retail bank deposits turned out to be the primary source of expanding the resource base of the Russian banking sector. Retail deposits, however, posted almost the slowest dynamics over a longterm period of monitoring. This is what restricts opportunities of the...

During the first three quarters of 2016, growth rate of the retail bank deposits and accounts has slowed down twofold in comparison with the same period of 2015. However, it is still premature to talk about the dismantling of the savings model. Cash dynamics demonstrate increment of the...

The Russian banking sector in November was aff ected by the same key adverse trends that have been prevailing over the recent months. The monetary authority’s resources still served as the principal source of funding for banks, which is indicative of a systemic shortage of traditional types of...

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...

Over the past three quarters of 2014 the Russian banking sector encountered a constriction of growth in all of its key resource sources. Retail accounts and deposits and foreign liabilities contracted while growth in corporate customers dropped to low levels. Monetary authorities’ resources,...

It is monetary authorities’ resources that became the principal source of growth in banks’ assets in October 2014. Still high frequency of banking license revocations and the ruble devaluation could hardly recover depositors’ confi dence in the banking system – growth in the deposit base...

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...

Late in 2014, Russia’s banking sector was driven by the ruble’s devaluation and mounting crisis-related developments in the economy, fi rstly the decline in real disposable household income. Banks sustained big losses for the first time since 2009, and the money market regulator strengthened...

Growth rate in banks’ assets in October 2013 was accelerated with the resources of the Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance of Russia. Credit portfolio’s quality has deteriorated in both the retail and corporate segments of the lending market. Banking business keeps losing its...