In Q3 2013, the banking sector faced a shortage of customer resources. The major source of liabilities became refinancing on the part of the Bank of Russia and MinFin's deposits. Meanwhile, by results of the lending market's performance in Q3, it was for the first time this year that lending to...

In July 2013, the bulk of banks' lending operations shifted towards corporate loans: the growth rate of debt against loans issued to companies for the first time over several months in a row became noticeably higher than that of the retail credit portfolio. The shrinkage of monies on corporate...

In July, main negative trends observed in Russia's banking sector over the recent months persisted: deterioration of assets quality, reduction of the credit activity and unprofitability of banking activity

The June dynamics were a natural continuation of the trends formed in the banking sector in early 2015. Banks' profits remain at the zero level. The funds of the population remain the single main source of banks' liabilities. Retail lending is contracting while corporate lending has noticeably...

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...

In April 2014, Russia's banking sector witnessed a continuation of the trends observed over the several previous months: the share of state-owned banks continued to increase in all major segments of the banking services market; the growth rate of retail lending remained on the decline, while the...

In 2013 the situation in the banking sector of the RF underwent major changes. On the one hand, the volume indicators of the banking sector continued to grow, although more slowly than before. However, this growth was mainly due to aggressive behaviour of the banks in the consumer lending...

In Q1 2015, there emerged the first signs of two negative trends approaching a break point: the inflow of individual funds into bank accounts and deposits finally reappeared, and after several months of negative financial results the banking sector managed to finish March 2015 in the black. At...

February 2015 saw almost all of the trends prevailing over the recent months: the retail credit portfolio saw negative 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...