In Q1 2021, banks formed reserves in advance in the required amount. Therefore, there was no sharp decline in profits owing to the gradual abolition of easing in terms of the formation of reserves for large corporate loans. Nevertheless, compared to 2020, we should expect a slight deterioration...

Due to the epidemiological situation, the structure and dynamics of financial performance in the banking sector have experienced changes. Amid declining margins, instability of financial markets and the unstable position of borrowers, the Russian credit institutions were forced to significantly...

The provision of assets by the banking sector in 2019 remained rather squared. Given the fact that economic subjects kept confidence in the banking sector, the lending institutions went on a resource base binge by using traditional tools—taking household and corporate funds on deposits....

Return on assets of the Russian banks at 2019-end has significantly increased despite a slide in bank margin and slowdown of lending growth rates. This fact was due to both credit risk mitigation and putting in operation of a new procedure for loan loss accounting. In 2019 as a whole, bank...

Russia’s banking sector as a whole happened to be ready for the current crisis partly owing to the central bank’s stabilization policy. Retention of high liquidity level, stepping up the requirements to the quality of banks’ products and services by way of setting the Basel standards...