The banking sector profit has grown significantly. At the same time, problems with the rate of return in the banking sector have not evaporated. State owned banks account for nearly all profit. Private banks are balancing on the verge of zero rate of return. Concentration of assets in the...

Banks continue shedding liabilities before the monetary authorities and nonresidents amid the credit market stagnation. In October, for the first time the banking sector's profit has reached the level of last year, however, the operating profit remains rather low on the whole

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

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,...

In July, revocations of banking licenses continued. Asset growth was significantly slowed down as a result of shrinkage of their principal sources – corporate funds and foreign liabilities, as well as a very slow movement of individual deposits. Growth of interest rates has so far produced...