OREANDA-NEWS. On 07 July 2008 was announced, that the Moscow President-Hotel hosted XXIII annual meeting of Association of regional banks of Russia. The participants represented the RF presidential administration, leaders and specialists from the RM Ministry of Finance, the RF Ministry for Economic Development, the RF Ministry for Regional Development, the Bank of Russia, Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), Federal Tax Service (FTS), Federal Service for Financial Supervision, ACB, the State Duma and the Federation Council, expert and analytic structures and 300 member-banks. The future plans happened to play the most important role for the meeting, not the report on the past achievements.

President of Rossyia Association Anatoly Aksakov and Expert RA general director Dmitry Grishankov for the first time presented mutually prepared “Concept for the Russian banking sector development till 2020”, based on the Association extensive experience, ideas of member-banks and work of the Expert RA rating agency analysts. At the press-conference journalists raised many interesting questions in relation to the bank system development to 2020, the Association and the Bank of Russia current operations, answered by Gennady Melikian, Anatoly Aksakov, Aleksander Murychev and Pavel Saimiev.