Finance

Economics

Heads or Tails: Why Randomly Composed Portfolios Can Be More Successful Than Thought Out Ones

January 25, 2021 | Mikhail Tishchenko

Experiments show that cats, monkeys, and deer can often ‘compose’ more profitable investment portfolios than those of professional investors. However, one should not rely on luck when investing.

Economics

Digital Ruble: Opportunities and Scenarios

January 15, 2021 | Alexey Zabotkin

Digitalisation is changing the payment market and consumer behaviour in many countries. This raises the question of whether it would be expedient to introduce an additional form of money that would meet the requirements of the digital age: a central bank digital currency.

Challenges of Cross-border Financial Services Regulation

December 10, 2020 | Tatiana Malakhova

The evolution of cross-border financial services has created new relations that are not regulated by any supranational body. This gives rise to the problem of regulatory arbitrage, which does not yet have a common solution.

Peculiarities of National Banking: the Banking Markets of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus

October 21, 2020 | Anastasia Lichagina, Marina Nazarova

Despite their common past, the banking markets of the largest CIS countries differ significantly in many aspects: from their level of competition, structure, and transparency to the features of the regulatory environment, and the anticrisis measures of their regulators.

The Second Birth of RUONIA

September 2, 2020 | Sergey Moiseev

The Bank of Russia is taking over the administration of the RUONIA rate, a benchmark interest rate for Russia's monetary policy and public debt. This is a part of the global benchmark interest rate reform consequential to the global financial crisis.

Opinions

Corporate Governance of Russian Banks: Particular Features and Prospects for Improvements

April 10, 2020 | Carsten Sprenger, Srdjan Todorovic

Adherence to high standards of corporate governance in the banking sector can reinforce the resilience of the banking system. However, existing corporate governance practices do not help curb the risks banks take.

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