At year-end of 2016, upward trend of retail credit exposure on bank loans resumed. Growth was entirely due to residential loans segment in the context of consumer lending shrinking. Shift in the debt structure in favor of cheaper and long-term credits issued for residential purchases secured...

The Russian banking sector remains unstable. In 2017, renewal of growth in bank assets and individual segments of the lending market was accompanied by falling profits and large volumes of substandard assets being identified with large banks undergoing financial restructuring

In 2016, Russian banks' total asset holdings contracted by 3.5% in nominal terms – from Rb 83.0 trillion as of January 1, 2016 to Rb 80.0 trillion as of January 1, 2017. In 2015, Russian banks' total asset holdings increased 6.9%. The decline in the nominal value of banks' asset holdings in...

The bank lending market stalled in 2016, giving rise to fundraising through the domestic corporate bond market. The market growth was driven up primarily by increase in foreign-currency loans. Like in previous years, about 25% of new bonded loans in the rouble bond segment were issued by...

Growth of non-cash monies has been sustained in the main by that of individual ruble-denominated bank deposits. The deposits and monies kept on their bank accounts by organizations have been growing at a slower pace, thus corresponding to the movement of their turnover in nominal terms. At the...

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...

Balance sheet profits declined markedly in January-July 2018 compared to the same period of 2017 mainly because of resumed growth in loan loss provisions. A positive factor was represented by growth in net interest income and in profits from regular banking operations

In 2018, the number of banks whose banking licenses were withdrawn increased. The overall size of those banks' assets as well as their average value decreased considerably, while the mechanism of financial rehabilitation was applied only once in 2018

Some of Russia's big private banks were faced with the risk of banking license revocation in August–September 2017. The financial resolution of Bank Otkritie and of Binbank was implemented using a new mechanism – The Fund for Banking Sector Consolidation

Households' bank savings at the turn of 2019 have demonstrated better performance against the last year. The largest share of deposits unlike last year was denominated in foreign currency. In the meantime, brisk recovery of the bank lending on the retail side is ongoing. This strengthens the...