Bankers write to the President

Leaders of the largest banks in the country wrote a letter to the president of the Association of regional banks Anatoly Aksakov and president of the Association of Russian Banks Garegin Tosunyanu requesting creation of a single professional organization, writes Kommersant. The document was a signatory to the head of Sberbank German Gref, head of VTB Andrey Kostin, president of VEB Vladimir Dmitriev, Mikhail Fridamn of Alfa-Bank and a representative of Gazprombank Andrey Akimov. The first person lending institutions believe that is necessary to consolidate forces to raise competitiveness in light of a single financial center in Russia's capital. The new organization is inevitable conflict of interest considered by the representatives of the banking community. "Now the Association of regional banks, such as trying to hold the idea nepovysheniya threshold minimum amount of capital, and large banks, in contrast, calls for early consolidation of the banking sector, which will contribute to increasing the minimum bar»,