MIL-OSI Russia: Financial news: Self-prohibition on concluding consumer credit agreements (loans): user profile

Translartion. Region: Russians Fedetion –

Source: Central Bank of Russia (2) –

March 1, 2025 successfully launched new mechanismcombating fraud, which allows citizens to establish in their credit history a self-prohibition on banks and microfinance organizations concluding consumer credit (loan) agreements with them.

Number of citizens who have established self-prohibition

more than 8.1 million citizens

used the service to establish a self-prohibition for the first month

Every citizen with a TIN is given the opportunity to set (remove) a self-prohibition free of charge and any number of times, and to obtain information about whether he has a self-prohibition by submitting an application to qualified credit history bureaus through State Services.

The most popular type of self-prohibition

Total ban

92% of citizens who established a self-prohibition chose a complete ban

By type of prohibition

Age of citizens who showed the greatest interest in self-prohibition

over 40 years old

age of 70% of citizens who have established self-prohibition

 

By age

Credit obligations of citizens who have established a self-prohibition

74%

citizens who have established self-prohibition have or had credit obligations

By type of obligations

By type of prohibition (there are no and were no obligations)

By type of prohibition (having/had obligations)

It should be noted that 44% of citizens who set a self-prohibition did not have any current credit obligations at the time of its setting.

26% of citizens who set up a self-prohibition never had any credit obligations. Mostly, such citizens set up a complete self-prohibition.

Clients who only have active loans in microfinance organizations practically did not use the new instrument (less than 1% of citizens who set a self-prohibition).

90% of citizens who previously had microloans and took advantage of the new mechanism have established a complete ban.

Credit activity of citizens who have established self-prohibition (taking into account repaid obligations)

Among citizens who have established self-prohibition, 31% had or currently have from 2 to 5 obligations, 27% have more than 6 obligations.

Popularity of self-prohibition in the subjects of the Russian Federation

19%

citizens who have established self-prohibition live in Moscow and the Moscow region

The leaders in the number of self-prohibitions established in the Russian Federation in the first month of the launch of the self-prohibition mechanism were residents of:

* In each of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

Moscow and Moscow region more than 19%
Saint Petersburg more than 5%
Rostov region, Sverdlovsk region, Republic of Bashkortostan and Krasnodar region* more than 3%

Subjects of the Russian Federation in which the service of establishing a self-prohibition, based on the results of the first month of operation of such a mechanism, became the most in demand by citizens (more than 7% of the total population of each of the specified subjects of the Russian Federation):

Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Komi Republic; Saint Petersburg; Republic of Karelia; Moscow Region; Kamchatka Krai; Moscow; Murmansk Region; Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra.

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