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...

Corporate lending market exhibits buoyancy in early 2018. Nominal volumes of new loans issued to corporate borrowers is close to pre-crisis maximum. However, corporate lending remains low against economic activity. The quality of credit portfolios can not be assessed positively yet due to the...

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

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

For the first five months of 2018, household savings moved up merely by 1.3% which is the bottom low for the last several years. Meanwhile, retail lending has been demonstrating an upward trend. The public borrows significantly more than deposits

In 2018, banking credit plays the key role in the provision of the corporate sector's borrowed resources. From 2014 through 2017, increment of the total bond market debt exceeded Rb 1 trillion, which was comparable with the bank debt growth of the corporate borrowers. Bank lending notably...