Current trends in the banking system of Russia

The paper provides an analysis of core issues that appear when Russian commercial banks generate and use their financial resources in terms of sanctions. Authors discuss whether commercial banks are able to meet their needs of investments in the national real economy if they use various forms of recapitalization. The today’s banking system in Russia has a number of features that mainly relate to a structure of the banking sector. Systemic weaknesses, assets concentrated in hands of a few federal banks, and well-marked territorial inequality in distribution of banking institutions are serious challenges in the existing organizational system of banking services. Researchers have revealed that commercial banks in Russia mainly have to make financial resources for account of less urgent liabilities and liquidity risks