Sberbank allows the central bank interest rate to remain unchanged in December or to be reduced by 25 points. The key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in December may be maintained or reduced by 25 basis points, said Taras Skvortsov, deputy chairman of the board and chief financial officer of Sberbank. "In the last two meetings, the central bank took a break in the cycle of lowering interest rates due to the continuation of high expectations for inflation and retirement from production capacity in a number of industries. In this context, we allow the option to maintain the key interest rate at the last meeting in December, but at the same time we believe that there is a fairly significant probability that it will be possible to reduce the key interest rate on Wednesday by 5 SCB points." The Central Bank of the Russian Federation in October kept the key interest rate at 14% per year for the second meeting in a row.