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The Bank of Russia has announced the release of a new 50-ruble commemorative coin on August 18, 2025.

Foreign investors in the Russian financial market will now be able to make cross-border funds transfers from In-type accounts, according to new rules announced by authorities.

Annual inflation in Russia has decreased to 8.8% over the past 12 months, down from 9.4% in June 2025, according to recent data.

The Bank of Russia has released an assessment report on money laundering and terrorist financing risks in the financial sector over the past five years.

The Bank of Russia reported that its Business Climate Index reached 2.1 points in August, up from 1.3 points in July.

The Bank of Russia has released the results of its August 2025 monitoring of maximum interest rates on ruble deposits offered by the country’s ten largest credit institutions.

In the second quarter of 2025, the number of individual investment accounts (IIAs) in Russia grew by nearly 94,000, bringing the total to over 6.2 million.

Banks and other lenders in Russia will soon be required to use only official information about current personal income when deciding whether to issue loans or microloans.

Nominal interest rates in Russia saw a significant decline in June, but the drop in real yields was less pronounced as price growth slowed.

The Bank of Russia has found that Mikhail Vladimirovich Papkin misused insider information in transactions involving ordinary shares of PJSC Ashinskiy metzavod.

The Bank of Russia has updated the procedure for its Lombard List, introducing new rules regarding the inclusion of bonds based on information disclosure by issuers or guarantors.

The Bank of Canada’s Governing Council has released a summary of its deliberations leading up to the monetary policy decision on July 30, 2025.

A joint operation by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been recognized with the Bank of Canada’s Counterfeit Deterrence Award.

The Bank of Russia has submitted a document to the Russian Ministry of Justice that sets out the procedure for calculating the national liquidity coverage ratio (NLCR) for systemically important credit institutions (SICIs).

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Monetary Policy Board has decided to lower the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 3.60 per cent, following its latest meeting.

The Bank of Canada has released the results of its Market Participants Survey for the second quarter of 2025, which reflects views from about 30 financial market participants collected between June 25 and July 3, 2025.

On August 9, 2025, the Bank of Russia is scheduled to perform maintenance on its website.

The Bank of Russia will release a new commemorative coin to mark the 200th anniversary of Cherkessk, the capital of Karachayevo-Circassia.

The Bank of Russia has announced the release of a new 3-ruble silver commemorative coin dedicated to hockey.

In the second quarter of 2025, Russian banks stopped 38.7 million attempted fraudulent transactions, which is about one and a half times higher than the average for the previous year.