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The Central Bank of Russian Federation (CBR) has published numerous consultation reports on its website addressing key developments across Russia's financial market. The most recent consultations, published in June 2026, include a report on increasing minimum capital requirements for banks, with comments due by July 3, 2026, and a report on changes to credit concentration risk regulation, with feedback requested by June 5, 2026. Additional active consultations cover financial instrument market access optimisation (comments due March 31, 2026), regulation of financial influencers (comments due April 30, 2026), and changes to group regulatory standards (comments due March 4, 2026). Earlier 2025 consultations addressed supervisory stress-testing concepts for credit organisations, improvements to credit organisation reporting, and changes to approaches for assessing banks' economic positions. The CBR's consultation programme reflects its broad regulatory agenda spanning capital adequacy, risk management, market infrastructure, consumer protection, and emerging technologies. Previous consultations have addressed artificial intelligence applications in financial markets, digital assets development, climate-related financial risks, remote identification systems for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF), and open application programming interfaces (APIs). The authority has also consulted on ecosystem regulation, alternative investment mechanisms, deposit insurance system improvements, and macroprudential policy frameworks. Stakeholders wishing to participate in ongoing consultations should submit responses to the designated email addresses provided for each report by the specified deadlines. The CBR maintains a comprehensive archive of consultation reports dating back to 2016, demonstrating its commitment to public engagement in financial market regulation development.

On June 10, 2026, the Central Bank of Russia launched a consultation on increasing the minimum capital requirements for banks. Key points include: Some banks that currently fail to meet the new regulatory requirements could achieve compliance through relatively small adjustments to their business models. Their ability to raise additional capital depends on whether they are willing to take on more credit risk by increasing lending-related exposures. Banks can increase their investments in corporate bonds by reducing the share of placements in the interbank market and interbank lending, without requiring additional funding. To assess the amount of additional investment in corporate bonds banks can afford, the central bank has based its analysis on the available capital buffer and applied a 65 percent risk weight to investments in such instruments. Comments and feedback are welcome up until July 3, 2026 and can be sent via email to surveys_DBRA@cbr.ru .

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Central Bank of Russia Consults on Increasing the Minimum Capital Requirements for Banks