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: RUSSIA’S BANKING SECTOR IN JULY 2013 Abstract: In July 2013, the bulk of banks’ lending operations shifted towards corporate loans: the growth rate of debt against loans issued to companies for the first time over several months in a row became noticeably higher than that of the retail credit portfolio. The shrinkage of monies on corporate clients’ accounts coupled with a slowdown in the rate of growth of individual deposits produced the biggest gap observed over the course of 2013 between the volumes of loans and deposits Classification-JEL: E21, E41, E51, E58, G21 Keywords: Banking sector Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2013 Issue: 9 Month: September Pages: 33-36 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/193Khromov.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:193