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 2015, deterioration of bank assets quality and reduction of profitability obtained from net operating income have led to a drastic fall of bank earnings. This deprived the banking sector of the main source of capital base replenishment while capital adequacy level was close to a critical...

In August 2015, certain symptoms of corporate lending pickup popped up and contraction of the retail credit portfolio practically halted. Main sources of profit for banks were revaluation of foreign currency accounts resulting from accelerated ruble devaluation

We investigate how counterparties' characteristics, and the collateral they use, interact with their demand for liquidity in the Bank of England's (BoE) operations. Between 2010 and 2016 there was regular usage of two BoE facilities: Indexed Long-Term Repos (ILTR) and the Funding for Lending...

The Central Bank's new management have revoked the banking license of 7% of banks which were operating last year. Additionally, the following trends in the development of the banking sector developed most visibly during the elapsed 12 months: retail market segments – retail loans and retail...

The trends towards slower growth rate and deterioration of the quality the retail credit portfolio continued in May 2014. Additionally, state-run banks kept strengthening their position in this segment of the banking service market. The banking business's profitability kept declining....

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...

Substantial outflow of retail deposits from the banking sector in Q1 2014 forced banks to increase their liability to the regulators – the Central Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance – reaching record values. The quality of the retail credit portfolio keeps deteriorating while the...

In the first months of 2014 the focus of active operations of banks has been the build-up of foreign assets as a result of the dollarisation of their domestic liabilities. At the same time there was a considerable decrease in household savings deposits with banks compared with last year. The...

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