{"id":33186,"date":"2025-07-30T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33186\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:32:07","slug":"russian-banks-report-deposit-outflows-amid-falling-rates-and-freeze-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33186\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Banks Report Deposit Outflows Amid Falling Rates and Freeze Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of Russia\u2019s largest banks are reporting an outflow of individual deposits following reductions in interest rates and widespread rumors concerning potential deposit freezes by the government.<\/p>\n

According to data analyzed<\/a> by the consultancy Frank RG, eight of the country\u2019s 20 largest credit institutions experienced deposit outflows in June.<\/p>\n

The largest withdrawal was recorded at Alfa-Bank, Russia\u2019s biggest private lender with roughly 30 million clients, which saw a 3.9% decline in retail deposits equivalent to 125.3 billion rubles ($1.54 billion, according to spot foreign exchange market data published by Reuters).<\/p>\n

Other banks posting significant outflows include the privately owned Sovcombank (-2.9%), Dom.RF (-2.5%), Russian Standard Bank (-2.2%), MKB (-2%) and both GPB and Post Bank (-1.1%).<\/p>\n

Among the top 20 lenders, only the banking subsidiary of Russian tech giant Yandex and the agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank registered increases in term deposits, with growth rates of 22.5% and 5.4% respectively, Frank RG reported.<\/p>\n

The reduction in deposits occurred as banks lowered interest rates in response<\/a> to a key rate cut by the Central Bank. The average maximum deposit rate dropped to 18.3% annually in June, down from over 21% in December.<\/p>\n

One-year deposit offers had fallen further by late July, ranging from 14% to 17%, according to Natalia Milchakova, chief analyst at Freedom Finance Global. She forecast that rates could dip to 12-14% by the end of the year if the Central Bank continues easing its monetary policy.<\/p>\n

With roughly 60.3 trillion rubles ($741.7 billion) held in household deposits, about a third of Russia\u2019s GDP, sustained outflows could carry broader economic implications.<\/p>\n

Andrei Zubets, director of the Institute for Socio-Economic Studies at the Financial University under the Russian government, said last year that authorities might implement deposit freezes in response to the threat of rapid inflation should consumers begin spending en masse.<\/p>\n

Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina has sought to quell such speculation, describing the claims as unfounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cBanks pay [depositors] through interest on loans,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are profitable, they are stable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several of Russia\u2019s largest banks are reporting an outflow of individual deposits following reductions in interest rates and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,7105,99,9567,164,186],"class_list":["post-33186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banks","tag-business","tag-central-bank","tag-economy","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}