Banks issued 2.03 million new credit cards to Russians in August, 6.9% less than in July. This is what he writes TASS According to data from the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBKI).
For comparison: Russians issued 2.18 million credit cards in July.
The volume of card limits in August also decreased and amounted to 214.3 billion rubles compared to 234.7 billion rubles (-8.7%) in the previous month.
Residents of Moscow and the Moscow region were the most active in issuing credit cards in the last month of summer – 144.9 thousand and 112.8 thousand, respectively. The top 5 regions in terms of the volume of credit cards issued in August were St. Petersburg (77.9 thousand), the Krasnodar Territory (74.1 thousand) and the Rostov Region (69.2 thousand).
The number of new credit cards in Russia has fallen for the third month in a row. Analysts attribute this dynamic to the Central Bank’s tight monetary policy aimed at cooling the domestic credit market.
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Source: Gazeta
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