The profit of PrivatBank in January 2018 amounted to UAH 1.105 billion, according to a press release of the bank.
“For the first month of 2018, PrivatBank received a profit of UAH 1.105 billion. Profitable work is the strategic task of the bank for the current year, in which the bank plans to earn at least UAH 4 billion profit,” the report said.
According to the reports of Ukrainian banks for 2017, PrivatBank in the corresponding period received UAH 22.966 billion of losses.
As reported, last week financial director of the bank Halyna Pakhachuk stated the loss of PrivatBank in 2017 was caused by the reduction in the pledge value of the assets received in 2016.
“Unfortunately, in 2017 we had to continue work to assess the fair value of the assets that the state acquired in 2016: large fuel filling stations, oil depots, famous Bukovel, which were transferred to state ownership at an inflated cost. The auditor evaluated their fair value and, accordingly, marked it down. It was the issue of markdown of these assets that led to the unprofitable activity of PrivatBank in 2017,” she said.
According to the banker, if to completely exclude the reserves that the bank was supposed to generate for these assets, it would have received a profit of UAH 3.6 billion over 2017.
