The head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said that some Russian credit institutions falsify their reports to the Central Bank, and are in a pre-bankruptcy state.
According to the investigation of newspaper The Guardian, several largest British banks were involved in an international scheme of laundering of huge amounts of money from Russia.
The Central Bank of Russia liquidated nearly 100 credit organizations in 2016, and closed nearly 300 banks over the past 3 years during an unprecedented clearance of the banking sector.
Brussels warned European banks against the placement of Russian sovereign Eurobonds, reports Financial Times, citing sources in the banks. The EU believes that the funds acquired from the placement of securities can be used “for wrong purposes”.
Russia sent bids to 25 foreign banks for the placement of government bonds in 2016. This is stated in a statement of the Ministry of Finance, which was published on Friday, February 5.
Sberbank (Russia’s largest bank – RRT) will not work in the Crimea and Sevastopol. This was announced during the annual meeting of shareholders by the head of the bank German Gref, reported the correspondent of “lenta.ru”. “It is unacceptable because…