MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's 30 largest banks have reported a 7.3% drop in pretax profit for the first 11 months of 2008 on the same period of 2007 to 293.3 billion rubles ($8.9 billion), the Central Bank said Monday.
The 30 banks' assets grew in January-November 2008 by 32.5% to 18.5 trillion rubles ($561 billion).
The top 30 includes state savings bank Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Raiffeisen Bank and Rosbank.