Private brokerage companies saw an active inflow of new clients at the end of last week, the Kommersant newspaper reported citing its sources.

Thus, the number of accounts opened at “BKS Investment World” on February 24 and 25 quadrupled compared to the previous days. Raiffeisen Capital told the publication about “clients’ interest” in opening new brokerage and trust management accounts. “The tendency on active arrival of clients” was also observed by the retail broker of the financial group “Finam”.

The influx of clients to private brokers comes against the backdrop of sanctions imposed on four Russian banks, the publication notes. According to Mosbirge data at the end of January, Sberbank (MCX:SBER) had 5.5 million accounts (0.3 million active accounts), VTB (MCX:VTBR) had 2.3 million (0.4 million active accounts), FC Otkritie had 0.4 million (0.05 million accounts), and Sovcombank Group had 0.1 million (0.02 million accounts). Tinkoff (LON:TCSq) Bank (LON:TCSq), which was not subject to sanctions, had the most brokerage accounts – 9.3 million (2 million active accounts).