The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposed to select banks to place temporarily free budget funds through stock exchange trading, Izvestia writes. It is expected that the new mechanism will increase the competition between the credit institutions and increase the profitability of the treasury. According to the agency, in 2025, the state's income from depositing money in deposits and bank accounts reached 1.3 trillion rubles, and in the first half of 2026 exceeded 600 billion rubles.