Bank "Intesa" stopped opening foreign currency accounts to new private clients in Russia. The Russian "daughter" of the Italian group Intesa Sanpaolo remains one of the few that conducts currency transfers from Russia abroad. The Italian bank Intesa received permission to sell Russian assets. Putin allowed the largest Italian bank to leave Russia. On September 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a special permit to carry out transactions with shares of Bank Intesa, the Russian subsidiary of an Italian credit institution that has operated in the country for more than 30 years. The amount of the deal, according to sources, will be “symbolic.” At the same time, Intesa was counting on the return of 300 million euros, which it provided to its Russian bank as funding.