Development of banking institutions in the Tyumen region: current problems

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Development of banking institutions in the Tyumen region: current problems

Author: Alexander V. Selyuk

Cand. Econ. Sci., Associate Professor, Department for Mathematical Methods, Information Technologies and Management Systems in Economics, Institute for Finance and Economics, Tyumen State University

The banking institutions doing business in the Tyumen Region work hard to be more customer-oriented, but they gradually lose control of the overall decision-making process and are viewed as an attractive acquisition target due to their lower risk profiles as compared to all the other banks in the Russian banking industry. The Russian regional banks are heavily involved in loan transactions to trading companies and service-dominated businesses. Loans to trading companies and service dominated businesses represent a 56% part of their loan portfolios despite the fact that loans of this particular type are considered to be very risky and have the poorest collateral adequacy amongst the existing loan options. The overall investments made by regional banks in the industrial sector of the Russian economy are quite modest and the performance results of Tyumen-based banking institutions fully justify the trend in question. Due to a healthy spread between their loan and deposit rates commercial banks have a good income-generating power but at the same time they are not interested in making long-term investments in the real sector of the Russian economy. The growth rates for income-generating loans held by the Tyumen-based banking institutions are twice as high as their total asset growth rates.