During the Pandemic of Coronavirus, banks transferred to collectors a record amount of debts of Russians in seven years. According to RBC, it is about 582 billion rubles in 2020 – a maximum of 2013, when the National Association of Professional Collection Agencies (piping) began to keep statistics.
Compared to the pre-crisis 2019, the number of new caides in collectors increased by 4.9 percent, to 8.4 million units. For many, the coronacrisis served as a catalyst that forced them to go overdue. According to the general director of the collector agency “Metropolitan Avd” David Tsatsua, in the risk zone, they were mainly those whose financial position and to the crisis was not the most sustainable.
In general, according to collectors, in the future, the volume of debts transmitted to the recovery will grow, but there is no discourse about the sharp growth rates. With a part of debts formed in the second half of 2020, banks still work independently, and the transfer to collectors will begin with delay over 180 days.
According to the Central Bank, on March 1, 2021, the debt of the population on loans to banks was 20.8 trillion rubles. Since the beginning of the year, it has increased almost 800 billion rubles. In the first quarter of 2021, the average size of unpaid debt increased by another 7.5 percent to 137.6 thousand rubles, which is the maximum for four years.