Maintenance on Bank of Russia website (04.09.2026)
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Bank of Russia Board of Directors decides to include securities in Bank of Russia Lombard List (01.09.2026)
On 25 August 2026, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to include the following securities in the Lombard List: exchange-traded mortgage-backed bonds of Limited liability company DOM.RF Mortgage agent with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-63-00307-R-001P, 4B02-64-00307-R-001P, 4B02-65-00307-R-001P, and 4B02-66-00307-R-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Joint Stock Company Atomic Energy Power Corporation with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-15-55319-E-001P, 4B02-16-55319-E-001P, 4B02-13-55319-E-001P, 4B02-14-55319-E-001P, and 4B02-17-55319-E-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company NORILSK NICKEL with Issue Registration Number 4B02-17-40155-F-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Gazprom Neft with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-09-00146-A-004P and 4B02-10-00146-A-004P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Polyus with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-08-55192-E-001P, 4B02-10-55192-E-001P, 4B02-11-55192-E-001P, and 4B02-12-55192-E-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company ALROSA with Issue Registration Number 4B02-02-40046-N-002P; exchange-traded bonds of Joint Stock Company Holding Company METALLOINVEST with Issue Registration Number 4B02-06-25642-H-002P; exchange-traded bonds of International Public Joint-Stock Company YANDEX with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-04-16777-A-001P and 4B02-05-16777-A-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Joint Stock Company Russian Railways with Issue Registration Number 4B02-53-65045-D-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Limited Liability Company Gazprom capital with Issue Registration Number 4B02-28-36400-R-003P; exchange-traded bonds of Limited Liability Company X5 FINANCE with Issue Registration Number 4B02-20-36241-R-003P; exchange-traded bonds of Mobile TeleSystems Public Joint Stock Company with Issue Registration Number 4B02-02-04715-A-003P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Magnit with Issue Registration Number 4B02-06-60525-P-005P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company MegaFon with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-13-00822-J-002P and 4B02-14-00822-J-002P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Nizhnekamskneftekhim with Issue Registration Number 4B02-04-00096-A-001P; exchange-traded bonds of Public Joint Stock Company Rostelecom with Issue Registration Numbers 4B02-01-00124-A-003P, 4B02-26-00124-A-001P, 4B02-27-00124-A-001P, and 4B02-28-00124-A-001P. This decision becomes effective from the first business day following the date of its publication on the Bank of Russia website.

Results of monitoring of credit institutions' maximum interest rates (31.08.2026)
The August 2026 results of the monitoring of the maximum interest rates on deposits¹ in Russian rubles of the top 10 credit institutions,² attracting the largest amount of household deposits are as follows:

the first 10 days of August – 12.89%;

the second 10 days of August – 12.90%; and

the third 10 days of August – 12.90%. Data on changes in monitoring results are available on the Bank of Russia website. Data on average maximum interest rates on deposits by maturity are given for reference.³

¹ The maximum interest rate at a credit institution is measured as follows: – Maximum interest rates on deposits available to any client (including potential ones) without any limitations and preliminary conditions are taken into account. Deposits for special client categories (pensioners, children) and purposes (social, humanitarian, etc.) are excluded. – Compound interest rates on deposits are out of scope. – Interest rates that are effective provided that certain conditions are fulfilled (regular bank card turnover, a permanent minimum balance on a bank card, etc.) are not taken into account. – Combined deposit products, i.e. deposits with additional conditions, are not considered. Such additional conditions for higher interest accrual may comprise, among other things, purchasing investment units in a certain amount, opening an investment account, concluding an agreement on investment or endowment life insurance, buying an extra service package, etc. – Deposits with maturities divided into periods with varying interest rates are out of scope. The average maximum interest rate is calculated as an arithmetic mean of the maximum interest rates of the top 10 credit institutions. ² Sberbank (1481) – www.sberbank.ru, VTB Bank (PJSC) (1000) – www.vtb.ru, Bank GPB (JSC) (354) – www.gazprombank.ru, AO ALFA-BANK (1326) – alfabank.ru, JSC Rosselkhozbank (3349) – www.rshb.ru, Joint Stock Company Bank DOM.RF (2312) – domrfbank.ru, CREDIT BANK OF MOSCOW (1978) – mkb.ru, TBank (2673) – www.tbank.ru, Promsvyazbank PJSC (3251) – psbank.ru, PJSC Sovcombank (963) – sovcombank.ru. The monitoring was conducted by the Department of Banking Regulation and Analytics of the Bank of Russia using the information provided by the said websites. The published values are indicative. ³ Average maximum interest rates on deposits: for up to 90 days – 12.32%; for 91 to 180 days – 12.70%; for 181 days to one year – 12.52%; and for over one year – 11.57%.

Facts of market manipulation in organised trading using pump-and-dump schemes established (27.08.2026)
The Bank of Russia has established facts of market manipulation involving the shares of PJSC OGK-2 (hereinafter, the Shares) traded by K.V. Mikhailov and A.I. Mikhailova (hereinafter, the Clients) on Moscow Exchange (hereinafter, the Exchange), using their personal trading accounts. The Clients repeatedly used pump-and-dump schemes to boost securities prices. In 2025, they bought the Shares by bidding aggressively to artificially inflate their prices above the level that would have been reached without those dealings. As soon as the prices of the Shares peaked, the Clients sold them. They also used the reverse scheme, i.e. they aggressively sold the Shares, artificially drawing their prices down, and then bought them at dumped prices. The Clients managed to apply these schemes several times within a trading session. Thus, they conducted more than 10,000 transactions with the Shares on the Exchange. All these transactions caused volatility spikes in the prices of the Shares and increased financial risks for other market participants. On certain trading days, the Clients also traded in the Shares in collusion between their brokerage accounts, which caused substantial deviations in the trading volumes and prices from the level that would have been reached without those dealings. These actions are qualified as market manipulation under Clauses 2 and 5 of Part 1 of Article 5 of Federal Law No. 224-FZ, dated 27 July 2010, ‘On Countering the Misuse of Insider Information and Market Manipulation and Amending Certain Laws of the Russian Federation’. K.V. Mikhailov and A.I. Mikhailova have been held liable for market manipulation and received binding orders to cease and desist from similar violations in the future. Furthermore, the Bank of Russia has sent binding orders to trading organisers and professional securities market participants to suspend transactions in the Clients’ trading accounts. The Bank of Russia warns trading participants against their involvement in coordinated activities to distort fair pricing in organised trading and conducting transactions in collusion with anonymous order matching.

Banking licence of LLC SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS revoked (27.08.2026)
Banking licence of LLC SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS revoked (27.08.2026) https://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/PR/?file=639234309816951699ENG_BANK_SECTOR.htm docid_41598 By its Order No. OD-1493, dated 27 August 2026, the Bank of Russia revoked the banking licence of the Moscow-based Limited liability company settlement non-bank credit organisation DIGITAL SOLUTIONS (LLC SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS) (Reg. No. 3552-K; hereinafter, SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS). The credit institution ranked 288^th by assets in the Russian banking system.¹ The Bank of Russia made this decision in accordance with Clauses 6 and 6.1 of Part 1 of Article 20 of the Federal Law ‘On Banks and Banking Activities’,² based on the facts that SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS:

violated federal laws governing banking activities and Bank of Russia regulations, becoming subject to the regulator’s supervisory measures on a number of occasions over the past 12 months; and
failed to comply with the laws on countering the legalisation (laundering) of criminally obtained incomes and the financing of terrorism.

SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS had long been conducting suspicious customer transactions. The credit institution neglected its duty to timely report transactions subject to statutory control to the authorised body. The management and owners of SNCO DIGITAL SOLUTIONS failed to take effective measures to prevent its involvement in suspicious transactions. By its Order No. OD-1494, dated 27 August 2026, the Bank of Russia appointed a provisional administration to manage the credit institution until a receiver³ or a liquidator⁴ is appointed. In accordance with federal laws, the powers of the credit institution’s executive bodies were suspended.

Results of monitoring of credit institutions' maximum interest rates (25.08.2026)
The August 2026 results of the monitoring of the maximum interest rates on deposits¹ in Russian rubles of the top 10 credit institutions,² attracting the largest amount of household deposits are as follows: the first 10 days of August – 12.89%; and the second 10 days of August – 12.90%. Data on changes in monitoring results are available on the Bank of Russia website. Data on average maximum interest rates on deposits by maturity are given for reference.³

¹ The maximum interest rate at a credit institution is measured as follows: – Maximum interest rates on deposits available to any client (including potential ones) without any limitations and preliminary conditions are taken into account. Deposits for special client categories (pensioners, children) and purposes (social, humanitarian, etc.) are excluded. – Compound interest rates on deposits are out of scope. – Interest rates that are effective provided that certain conditions are fulfilled (regular bank card turnover, a permanent minimum balance on a bank card, etc.) are not taken into account. – Combined deposit products, i.e. deposits with additional conditions, are not considered. Such additional conditions for higher interest accrual may comprise, among other things, purchasing investment units in a certain amount, opening an investment account, concluding an agreement on investment or endowment life insurance, buying an extra service package, etc. – Deposits with maturities divided into periods with varying interest rates are out of scope. The average maximum interest rate is calculated as an arithmetic mean of the maximum interest rates of the top 10 credit institutions. ² Sberbank (1481) – www.sberbank.ru, VTB Bank (PJSC) (1000) – www.vtb.ru, Bank GPB (JSC) (354) – www.gazprombank.ru, AO ALFA-BANK (1326) – alfabank.ru, JSC Rosselkhozbank (3349) – www.rshb.ru, Joint Stock Company Bank DOM.RF (2312) – domrfbank.ru, CREDIT BANK OF MOSCOW (1978) – mkb.ru, TBank (2673) – www.tbank.ru, Promsvyazbank PJSC (3251) – psbank.ru, PJSC Sovcombank (963) – sovcombank.ru. The monitoring was conducted by the Department of Banking Regulation and Analytics of the Bank of Russia using the information provided by the said websites. The published values are indicative. ³ Average maximum interest rates on deposits: for up to 90 days – 12.33%; for 91 to 180 days – 12.70%, for 181 days to one year – 12.52%; and for over one year – 11.57%.

Bank of Russia issues new investment coins (20.08.2026)
Bank of Russia issues new investment coins (20.08.2026) https://www.cbr.ru/eng/press/PR/?file=639227558622566649ENG_COINS.htm docid_41593 On 21 August 2026, the Bank of Russia issues the following investment coins ‘Saint George the Victorious’: – a 100-ruble silver coin (Catalogue No. 5117-0070); – a 100-ruble gold coin (Catalogue No. 5217-0048); – a 200-ruble gold coin (Catalogue No. 5219-0033); and – a 10,000-ruble gold coin (Catalogue No. 5221-0036). The 100-ruble silver investment coin (fine metal content 1,000.0 g, fineness 999/1,000) has a round shape and is 100.0 mm in diameter. The 100-ruble (fine metal content 15.55 g, fineness 999/1,000), 200-ruble (fine metal content 31.1 g, fineness 999/1,000), and 10,000-ruble (fine metal content 1,000.0 g, fineness 999/1,000) gold investment coins have a round shape and are 30.0 mm, 33.0 mm and 100.0 mm in diameter, respectively. The obverse and the reverse of the coins have a relief rim around the circumference. The obverse of the coins features a relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation and the inscriptions ‘РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ’ (RUSSIAN FEDERATION), ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA), the denomination of the coins ‘100 РУБЛЕЙ’ (100 RUBLES), ‘200 РУБЛЕЙ’ (200 RUBLES), and ‘10000 РУБЛЕЙ’ (10,000 RUBLES), the year of issue ‘2026 г.’ (2026), the chemical symbol of the metal according to Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of Elements, fineness, the mint trademark, and fine metal content. The obverse of the 100-ruble silver coin and the 10,000-ruble gold coin features the serial number of the coin and the sign ‘№’ (No.).

Egor Kozlov appointed as Head of Risk Analysis Service (17.08.2026)
By the Order of the Bank of Russia Governor, effective 18 August 2026, Egor Kozlov has been appointed as Head of the Risk Analysis Service. Egor Kozlov has been working at the Bank of Russia for over 16 years. Since 2010, he has held various positions, advancing from Category 1 Economist in the Department of Banking Regulation and Supervision to Deputy Head of the Risk Analysis Service.

Results of monitoring of credit institutions' maximum interest rates (12.08.2026)
The August 2026 results of the monitoring of the maximum interest rates on deposits¹ in Russian rubles of the top 10 credit institutions² attracting the largest amount of household deposits are as follows: the first 10 days of August – 12.89%. Data on changes in monitoring results are available on the Bank of Russia website. Data on average maximum interest rates on deposits by maturity are given for reference.³

¹ The maximum interest rate at a credit institution is measured as follows: – Maximum interest rates on deposits available to any client (including potential ones) without any limitations and preliminary conditions are taken into account. Deposits for special client categories (pensioners, children) and purposes (social, humanitarian, etc.) are excluded. – Compound interest rates on deposits are out of scope. – Interest rates that are effective provided that certain conditions are fulfilled (regular bank card turnover, a permanent minimum balance on a bank card, etc.) are not taken into account. – Combined deposit products, i.e. deposits with additional conditions, are not considered. Such additional conditions for higher interest accrual may comprise, among other things, purchase of investment units in a certain amount, opening of an investment account, conclusion of an agreement on investment or endowment life insurance, buying an extra service package, etc. – Deposits with maturities divided into periods with varying interest rates are out of scope. The average maximum interest rate is calculated as an arithmetic mean of the maximum interest rates of the top 10 credit institutions. ² Sberbank (1481) – www.sberbank.ru, VTB Bank (PJSC) (1000) – www.vtb.ru, Bank GPB (JSC) (354) – www.gazprombank.ru, AO ALFA-BANK (1326) – alfabank.ru, JSC Rosselkhozbank (3349) – www.rshb.ru, JSC DOM.RF (2312) – domrfbank.ru, CREDIT BANK OF MOSCOW (1978) – mkb.ru, TBank (2673) – www.tbank.ru, Promsvyazbank PJSC (3251) – psbank.ru, PJSC Sovcombank (963) – sovcombank.ru. The monitoring was conducted by the Department of Banking Regulation and Analytics of the Bank of Russia using the information provided by the said websites. The published values are indicative. ³ Average maximum interest rates on deposits: for up to 90 days – 12.33%; for 91 to 180 days – 12.65%; for 181 days to one year – 12.48%; and for over one year – 11.47%.

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