Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name:Michael Khromov Author-Name-First: Michael Author-Name-Last: Khromov Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Russian Banking Sector in Q1 2013 Abstract: In Q1 2013 the trend of slowing growth in the credit portfolio of banks was sustained. In the retail segment of credit market there was started deterioration of the Bank’s loan portfolio quality. Profitability of the banking business is getting reduced for the second consecutive quarter, which is driven by the growing deductions to reserves and higher cost of the resource base Classification-JEL: E21, E41, E51, E58, G21 Keywords: Banking sector Year: 2013 Issue: 5 Month: May Pages: 32-35 Journal:Russian Economic Developments File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/133Khromov.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:133