In August 2012, the growth of bank assets has slowed down. The reason for this was the decreased growth rate of the main types of funds - foreign liabilities and assets of enterprises and organizations. However, the increased government support and reduced investments in foreign assets allowed...

The paper evaluates competition in Russian banking sector with the use of methodology of the sectoral markets theory. Basing on the existing methods of analysis of competition, the authors suggest a model for an empirical research, which takes into account of such operational particularities of...

This paper investigates the influence of both concentration and foreign banks expansion in Russian banking sector on the level of its competition. The estimation of competition is based on widely used non-structural methodology of Panzar-Rosse H-statistic (Rosse, Panzar, 1977; Panzar, Rosse, 1987)...

In February 2013, after the January reduction, the growth of bank assets was resumed. Dynamics of loans remained rather moderate: the main growth of banks' assets was due to the increased inflow of foreign assets

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...

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 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...

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 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

In August 2012, the growth of bank assets has slowed down. The reason for this was the decreased growth rate of the main types of funds ‐ foreign liabilities and assets of enterprises and organizations. However, the increased government support and reduced investments in foreign assets allowed...