The number of insurance companies in Ukraine in March 2024 has not changed and as of the end of the month there are 86 risk insurers, 12 specializing in life insurance, one insurer with a special status (“Export Credit Agency”), according to the NBU website. At the same time, two insurance brokers are included in the register.
In general, the number of non-banking financial market participants in March decreased from 1,060 (as of February 29, 2024) to 1,056 (as of March 31, 2024).
The Energy Support Fund has managed to raise over EUR410m from 13 partner countries and international organizations as of April 9.
“The remaining amount is the announced contributions, which will soon be transferred by the sponsors,” the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.
As the ministry noted, the special trust of partners has been secured thanks to the system of transparent distribution of funds. In particular, the Ministry of Energy has a working group on humanitarian aid, which considers requests from Ukrainian energy companies to purchase the necessary aid with the Fund’s resources.
The Fund financed the most urgent needs of Ukrainian energy companies, in particular, the purchase of generators, power transformers, circuit breakers, spare parts, technical means, materials, special equipment, fuel, means of physical protection of energy facilities.
“Most of all funds are distributed to meet the urgent needs of energy companies from frontline regions – Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Odessa,” the Ministry of Energy said.
State-owned Ukreximbank (Kiev) is selling a complex of buildings and structures, as well as a land plot in Kiev region through the OpenMarket electronic bidding system (SE “SETAM” of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine), according to a press release of SETAM.
The starting price of the lot is 108 million 412 thousand 224 UAH. The auction is scheduled for April 17. The guarantee fee for participation in the auction is UAH 10.841 mln.
The press release notes that Ukreximbank is selling the car plant, but does not specify the name, but judging by the address of location in Boryspil and the attached photos, it is PJSC “Boryspil Automobile Plant” (“BAZ”) of the corporation “Etalon”.
The total area of the sold lot is 18.67 thousand square meters, including the main production building (7679.9 square meters) and production building (644.8 square meters); administrative and utility building with canteen (3 213.6 square meters); spare parts warehouse (4016.6 square meters) and other buildings.
The land plot has an area of 7.5205 hectares. Target purpose: for placement and operation of main auxiliary and auxiliary buildings and structures of processing, machine-building and other industries.
In the press release it is noted that the buildings and structures are in exploitable technical condition. The facility is fully operational as a production and warehouse complex with an administrative part. Its territory is fenced and guarded.
Borispol Motor Plant was established in 2002, where the corporation “Etalon” organized the production of small class buses. Currently, buses of various classes and trolleybuses are produced at the corporation’s Chernihiv auto plant.
According to the register of court decisions, in January 2023 PJSC BAZ was recognized bankrupt and liquidation procedure was opened.
According to the data of the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market for the third quarter of 2023, Bodmin AG (registered in Switzerland) owns 74.37% of BAZ shares, another 22.81% belongs to Kirayn LLC (Kiev).
The National Bank of Ukraine has revoked the licenses of Ardian Leasing Company LLC and FC Aktiv+ LLC on the basis of submitted applications, the regulator’s website has reported.
In addition, these companies are excluded from the State Register of Financial Institutions due to the revocation of licenses.
Another two non-banking financial institutions (NFIs) on the basis of their own applications, the regulator has agreed to change the scope of licenses for the activities of financial companies: LLC FC “Percent” – to exclude from the license such services as financial leasing and provision of guarantees, LLC “Siroko Finance” – to exclude the service of financial leasing from the license.
At the same time, the NBU notes that after the change in the scope of licenses for the activities of the financial company LLC “FC “Percent”, LLC “Siroko Finance” have the right to provide funds and bank metals on credit, as well as factoring service.
The corresponding decisions of the NBU Committee on supervision and regulation of non-banking financial services markets adopted at a meeting on April 5, 2024.
On April 5, Ukrhydroenergo announced a tender for voluntary motor vehicle insurance (CASCO) for the branches of the Cascade of Kyiv HPPs and PSPs, according to the Prozorro electronic public procurement system.
The expected value of the insurance services procurement is UAH 192.041 thousand.
The deadline for submitting documents for the tender is April 15.
“Ukrhydroenergo operates all major hydroelectric power plants located on the Ukrainian sections of the Dnipro and Dniester rivers. The total installed capacity of the company’s hydroelectric power plants is 5,744.8 MW. The state, represented by the Ministry of Energy, owns 100% of the company’s shares.
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The Polish Inspectorate for Agriculture and Food Quality (IJHARS) in Lublin has decided to ban the circulation of three batches of ice cream with a total weight of 8.48 tons imported from Ukraine due to defrosting.
The decision was immediately implemented, the inspectorate said in a post on the social media platform X on Sunday.
It is also noted that the day before IJHARS in Poznan decided to ban from the Polish market another batch of ice cream imported from Ukraine, totaling 1.44 tons, due to the lack of declaration of sweetener (aspartame) in the composition.
Earlier this week, the Polish Trade Inspectorate announced the largest ever fine of 1.5 million zlotys (about $380,000) imposed on an importing company for importing 11,500 tons of technical rapeseed and feed wheat from Ukraine as counterfeit products for further use in the form of food products.
In addition, it was decided to ban the import of 57.66 thousand tons of tomato paste from Ukraine due to the presence of mold.
A week earlier, IJHARS chief inspector Przemyslaw Rjodkiewicz said that 1.4% of batches of products from Ukraine, which the commission checked at the border, were rejected last year.
