Before a law on participatory life insurance comes into force, which is currently being considered by the Russian State Duma, protection of policyholders’ rights will have to be determined, Financial Ombudsman Svetlan...
A considerable part of claims to appeal against the Financial Ombudsman’s decisions in court are related to the claimants’ aspiration to reduce the amount of penalties awarded by a Financial Ombudsman, who has no lega...
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in Russia mainly performs at present the function of arbitration in disputes between consumers and financial institutions, but the potential laid down in the law, allows the insti...
Financial Ombudsman Viktor Klimov spoke at the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) session “International experience of out-of-court protection of financial services consumers” within the 11th St. Petersburg Internation...
The Financial Ombudsman Service has proposed that banks should be obliged to keep and store audio recordings of communication with their customers to enhance protection of the rights of consumers of financial services...
The Advisory Committee of the Financial Ombudsman Schemes of the Eurasian Economic Union member states developed recommendations for all the EAEU member states on the harmonization of the out-of-court protection of co...
Chief Financial Ombudsman Yury Voronin and Dimitry Aristov, Director of the Russian Federal Bailiff Service, Chief Bailiff of Russia, have signed an agreement on cooperation. The signing ceremony was held on 1...