Ural Federal District: USD, Euro Deposits Shrink 17%

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 1, 2015. The amount of money deposited at Ural Federal District-based banks rose by 23.8% in the first half of 2015 and thus reached 536bn RUR, Deposit Insurance Agency reports. Deposits over 1m RUR large grew the fastest and thus increased by 1.5 times. Deposits in the 700,000 RUR to 1m RUR range went up by 44.7%, while those in the 100,000 RUR to 700,000 RUR range remained more or less at the same level. Deposits in the under-100 RUR range rose by 3.8%. A private individual's bank deposit came to 197,400 RUR on average as of July 1, 205. That of a sole

August 26, 2013. The share of foreign currency deposits in Ural Federal District-based banks in the total deposit volume rose by 1.1% and reached 9.9% in the first half of 2013. The volume of these deposits itself rose by 26.1% (by 18% in nominal terms) and reached 42.1bn RUR in the ruble terms on July 1, 2013. As for the national currency deposits, these went up by 10.5% and amounted to 382.7bn RUR, Deposit Insurance Agency State Corporation’s report states. In the first half of 2013, the long-term deposits (over 3 years long) proved those that have increased the most (by 28.7%); their share

March 11, 2013. As of January 1, 2013, the volume of private individuals’ ruble deposits in Ural Federal District-based banks exceeded that of the foreign currency deposits by nearly three times. What is more, the ruble deposits increased by 22% (62.6bn RUR), the foreign currency ones (in ruble equivalents) rose by 8.2% (2.5bn RUR). If one does not take the declining foreign currency exchange rate (in nominal terms) into account, the volume of foreign currency deposits increased by 13.3% in 2012. When one does take the changes in the foreign currency exchange rate into account, the increase

'People tended to open more ruble deposits rather than the foreign currency ones in the last quarter of the year, so the volume of ruble deposits in banks located in Ural Federal District rose by 10.2% compared to an 8.3% increase in the volume of foreign currency deposits in October-December 2007,’ the Deposit Insurance Agency’s report says. Kurgan Region had the smallest share of foreign currency deposits in its banks (it only came to 1% of the total deposit volume on January 1, 2008), while Tyumen Region had the greatest share which amounted to 10.4% of the total deposit volume.

UrBC, Moscow, September 12, 2019. The Central Bank of Russia points to money flowing out of foreign currency deposits and flowing into ruble deposits in August, the CBR’s report on Banking Sector Liquidity and Financial Markets indicates. According to the CBR, the foreign currency deposits went up on a considerably smaller scale in August compared with June and the previous twelve months on average. As a result, the yearly growth of private customers’ foreign currency deposits slowed down for the first time since October 2018 and came to 9.5% in late July. Based on the bank’s preliminary