Financial news: Plan approved for transition of creditors to use of official information on income when lending to citizens

Translation. Region: Russian Federal

Source: Central Bank of Russia –

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When making a decision on granting a loan, banks and other creditors will use only information about the current official income of citizens. Together with the interested ministries and departments, the Bank of Russia approved the road map, defining the main stages of the transition to a new procedure for using information. To establish such an obligation for creditors last year instructedPresident of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, it was ordered to provide creditors with access to an information system that allows them to receive up-to-date official information on borrowers' income within 1 minute. The required set of information, according to the roadmap, will be available to creditors by March 2026.

With the consent of citizens, creditors will receive this information from the information systems of the Federal Tax Service of Russia and the Social Fund of Russia through the Digital Profile service, which allows financial institutions to use customer data from government information systems and provide them with services without paper documents. Market participants, agencies and the Bank of Russia have come to the conclusion that this is the most effective way to obtain up-to-date information on citizens' incomes. At the same time, it is possible to use other sources of information on the official incomes of citizens. The transition to using only information on official incomes will allow banks and other creditors to more accurately assess the income of borrowers and will help the Bank of Russia more effectively limit the risks of the debt burden of citizens.

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