Legal Regulation of Banking in the New Regions of the Russian Federation

In October 2022, 4 new constituent entities were admitted to the Russian Federation: the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Luhansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which put on the agenda the issue of integrating their banking business into the federal legal field. The study focuses on the following questions: how this process is going and what impact it makes on the national banking system as a whole. According to the results of the study, it is revealed that the legal regulation of the banking system of new constituent entities of the Russian Federation is undergoing a transitional period characterized by the effect of the norms adopted in these regions before they entered into the Russian Federation, as well as acts of emergency legislation. The author determines the factors influencing banking activity in the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation: the need for legal transformation, implementation of the special military operation, unfriendly actions on the part of the United States and foreign states and international organizations that have joined them. Extremely low availability of banking services in these constituent entitties of the Russian Federation makes it necessary to open branches and subsidiaries of Russian banks. To sum up, taking into account conclusions made about the nature of integration, the author proposes measures aimed at supporting the banking system not only in the new regions, but also in the Russian Federation as a whole: increasing limits on cash withdrawals; writing off loans the collateral for which was lost during hostilities for individuals and legal entities located in new regions; resumption of the work of exchange offices; acceleration of the process of introducing a non-bank payment service provider to the banking market; creation of a fund for settlement of losses in the banking sector; development of a mechanism for parliamentary control over acts of emergency regulation adopted by the Bank of Russia, the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation.

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