The authors survey the types of cashless payments, explain their advantages and disadvantages, analyze the factors that promote and impede their use in Russia, and consider how monetary and credit policy and technical measures can facilitate the transition from cash to cashless payment.

The article analyzes factors affecting growth of the share of nonperforming loans in the loan portfolios of Russian banks. Using the results of stress tests of Russian banks, the authors assess their potential capital needs in 2010 and estimate the share of government assistance in capital...

The article analyzes measures taken by the Bank of Russia in response to the occurrence of a problematic situation characterized by three "stress points": signs of new overheating of the credit market, a significant decrease in bank capital adequacy ratios, and exacerbation of the problem of...