OREANDA-NEWS  The volume of insured bank deposits in Russia increased by 2.2 percent in the first nine months of this year, to 87.7 trillion rubles. This is stated in the monitoring materials of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA).

Since the beginning of the year, citizens' deposits have increased by a comparable 2.1 percent, to 66.7 trillion rubles, funds in corporate accounts — by 0.6 percent, to 10.2 trillion, and those placed in escrow accounts — by 6.7 percent, to 7.6 trillion, the DIA said.

"The largest increase was shown by deposits in the range from 3 to 10 million rubles – by 11.9 percent in amount and by 11.4 percent in number of depositors," the state corporation noted, adding that the share of household deposits in foreign currency decreased in January-September from 5.2 to 4.7 percent.

Earlier it became known that Russian banks had prepared in advance to maintain the Central Bank's key interest rate, which had already been left at 14 percent twice in a row, and by the end of the year they would offer customers special deposit programs, the so-called promissory notes on favorable terms.