On August, 26, 2009, at the head office of Sberbank of Russia (Moscow) Jury Golovin, head of the department on managing “Housing and communal services” project gave a briefing on Sberbank’s project – “Social card throughout the country”.
On August, 24, Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia, has declared that, in his opinion, banks are quite capable even now to issue mortgage credits at 14 percent. The President has noticed that we could return to the pre-depression level for the next 2–3 years. Thus, he has declared, a "good enough" mortgage rate is not more than 6–7 percent.
Federal payment system "Gorod" ("City") and Department of Federal Tax Service of Novosibirsk region have offered inhabitants of Novosibirsk a new service – informing of tax liability for transport and land taxes as well as individual property tax.
On August, 7, 2009, the board of directors of the Bank of Russia has made a decision to decrease the official bank rate by 0.25 percent to 10.75 percent since August, 10, 2009.
“The National bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) does not expect bankruptcies in the country banking system in the near future”, - said Pavel Kallaur, the first deputy of chairman of the board of NBRB.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has informed about receiving the application for purchasing 50 percent of voting shares of "Experian-Interfax" credit bureau from Sberbank of Russia.
Bank of Moscow has implemented the project for acquiring China UnionPay (CUP) cards. Now CUP cardholders can get cash in all АТМs of the bank. These cards have limits for а single cash withdrawal — 10,000 roubles (300 US dollars), but no additional commission for it.
Peter Prokopovich, the chairman of the Board of the National bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) has declared at its press-conference in Minsk, that NBRB intends to continue dedollarizing the economy.
From the beginning of the economic crisis Ukrainian banks have increased the cost of secondary housing mortgage loans for individuals. Analytical resource Maanimo.com has conducted a research for 101 banks.
Priorbank and Moscow-Minsk bank (Minsk, Belarus) have announced their termination of debit transactions conducting with credit cards in foreign currency, since July, 28, 2009.
July, 17-20, 2009 analytical centre of Yury Levada (Levada Center) conducted а representative poll “Have you a bank card? Are you going to get it, if you haven’t had it yet?”
In June, 2009, the number of SIM cards, registered in Russia, has grown to 197 million. Now the mobile penetration in Russia as a whole is 138.7%, and in the license zone of Moscow – 191.8%.
As they say in the degree of the Board of the National bank of Belarus, in the country, banks stops issuing loans to individuals (except to individual businessmen) in foreign currency till January, 1, 2011.
According to Sultan Tagaev the chairman of the National bank of the Chechen Republic, since January, 2010, in the Republic the electronic payments system will start functioning.
Local
divisions of Russian traffic police (GIBDD) will start issuing newdriving
licences since March, 1, 2011. The corresponding decree of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, confirmed in the Ministry of
Justice of the Russian
Federation, is published in “Rossiyskaya
gazeta”. You can find the full text of this document in the “Legislation, initiatives" section on the information
portal www.plusworld.ru.
The National bank of Belarus is preparing a new decree about rules for working with e-money. It creates the legal frameworks which is necessary for working of the national e-currencies exchanger in the country.
