Bank Clearing House has bought back 5.2727% of shares from Ivan Fursin, as a result of which its share has decreased from 6.8773% to 1.6046%, according to the information in the disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC).
It is specified that the shares were bought back on May 17 this year.
As reported, Clearing House Bank planned to buy back 2,540 ordinary registered shares, or 5.2727% of the authorized capital.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), as of January 1, 2024, its shareholders were: Yulia Lyovochkina – 63.4068%, Ivan Fursin – 16.7791% (6.8773% direct participation and 9.9018% indirectly through Vistaki Ventures Limited), Ihor Voronin – 9.7855%, Fabian Bonneleim – 6.4642%, Ng Ching Yu – 2.5408%, Yuriy Boyko – 1.0172% and Oleksandr Danchenko – 0.0005%.
As of April 1, 2024, in terms of total assets, Clearing House Bank ranked 34th (UAH 5.48 billion) among 63 banks operating in the country. Last year, the bank increased its net profit to UAH 143.56 million from UAH 83.58 million in 2022, and its assets increased to UAH 5.5 billion from UAH 5.2 billion, according to the annual report.
Olga Harlan won the fourth medal of the World Cup sabre fencing season, taking second place at the Plovdiv stage, Suspilne Sport reported on Saturday.
Since the beginning of the season, the Ukrainian has already won three medals in the series. In particular, Harlan opened the year 2024 with a gold medal at the World Cup in Lima, Peru.
The Ukrainian started in the 1/32 finals with a 15:8 victory over the “neutral” Anna Smirnova. Last year, Harlan was disqualified from the singles competition of the World Championships because she refused to shake hands with Smirnova.
In the next round, Harlan defeated Italian Eloise Passaro (15:8) and qualified for the 1/8 finals.
Olga defeated another Italian, 30th in the world ranking Rossella Gregorio, with a 10-point advantage – 15:5. And Elizabeth Tartakovsky from the United States got into the top 4 after defeating the 17th world saber fencer, 15:8.
Harlan’s most difficult fight on the way to the final was with Misaki Emura of Japan. With the Ukrainian leading 14:10, her opponent came as close as possible to equalizing the score, but lost 13:15.
Harlan had to compete for gold with the world ranking leader, Sarah Balzer from France, who has already won three World Cups this season. The final fight ended in defeat for the Ukrainian – 8:15 and a silver medal for Harlan.
Harlan was the only Ukrainian team to qualify for the last 16.
PrJSC United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), which manages Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant (VGMK, Dnipropetrovska oblast) and Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant (IGOK, Zhytomyrska oblast), spent over UAH 37 million on equipment repairs and maintenance in January-March this year.
According to the company’s press release, active repairs and restoration of mining equipment at UMCC are underway.
It is specified that in the first quarter of 2024, one of the key areas was the repair and purchase of necessary spare parts to ensure that the equipment operated smoothly.
Thus, VGMK’s branch purchased spare parts for critical process chains, purchased 5 running parts for bulldozers, restored 5 BelAZ mining dump trucks, and put all 5 operating BELL dump trucks on line.
At the branch of IGOK, the funds were used to maintain machinery and equipment in good working order to quickly get involved in work processes if necessary.
“These measures preceded the operational launch of the enrichment production in April 2024. Thus, step by step, we continue to establish the stable operation of the company,” UMCC said in a statement.
As reported, UMCC received UAH 30 million in net profit in Q1, while in the same period last year it made a loss.
The United Mining and Chemical Company has been operating since August 2014, when the Ukrainian government decided to transfer the property complexes of Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant (VGMK, Dnipropetrovska oblast) and Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant (IGOK, Zhytomyrska oblast) to its management. On December 8, 2016, the state-owned enterprise was transformed into PJSC UMCC, and on December 26, 2018, it was transformed from PJSC to PrJSC.
UMCC used to sell its products to more than 30 countries. The main sales markets were the EU, China, Turkey, as well as the USA and African countries.
This is the highest figure in recent years
More than 43 thousand fops in Ukraine in 2024 were created by women, according to the Unified State Register. This is more than half of the total number of newly created sole proprietorships in the first quarter of this year. Women most often open businesses in retail, personal and information services. Men are more likely to choose computer programming and wholesale trade.
43,554 new sole proprietorships were created by women in the first quarter of 2024. This is more than half – 59% – of the total number of new businesses and a record high in recent years. Men opened 30,496 new businesses in the same period. For comparison, in 2021, the share of women was 51% of the total number of newly created fops.
Most often, women entrepreneurs choose retail trade (68% of women and 32% of men), other personal services (89% of women and 11% of men), and information services (63% of women and 37% of men).
At the same time, men are more likely to choose computer programming (58% of men and 42% of women) and wholesale trade (52% of men and 48% of women).
The net profit of OTP Bank (Kyiv) in January-March this year amounted to UAH 1.56 billion, which is 7.8% better than the result for the same period in 2023, according to the quarterly consolidated financial statements of the financial institution.
According to them, the bank’s net interest income decreased slightly by 0.6% to UAH 2.14 billion, while net commission income decreased by 23.2% to UAH 247.3 million.
Since the end of 2023, OTP Bank’s assets have increased by 2.2%, or by UAH 2.2 billion, and reached UAH 104.2 billion as of March 31. This increase was primarily due to an increase in loans and advances to banks by 21.5% to UAH 26.1 billion and to customers by 2.7% to UAH 25.5 billion.
The portfolio of loans to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs decreased by 0.3% to UAH 26.2 billion, consumer loans to households – by 5.4% to UAH 4.76 billion, while loans under repurchase agreements increased by 69% to UAH 1.79 billion.
It is indicated that balances on accounts with the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) decreased by 9.5% to UAH 9.05 billion, while cash on hand increased by 41.6% to UAH 1.18 billion.
According to the report, OTP reduced its investments in securities by 7.2% to UAH 40.24 billion.
Since the beginning of this year, the financial institution has managed to increase its customer accounts from UAH 81.16 billion to UAH 83.63 billion, and the bank’s total liabilities have increased from UAH 85.5 billion to UAH 86.3 billion.
It is noted that the bank’s capital increased by 9.2% to UAH 17.9 billion, including retained earnings by 19.4% to UAH 9.6 billion.
The financial report indicates that the remuneration of key management personnel for the first three months of this year included short-term payments of UAH 12.9 million, which is 40% less than in the same period last year.
Since June 1, 2006, OTP Bank has been a 100% subsidiary of the Hungarian OTP Bank Plc. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of April 1, 2024, OTP ranked 11th in terms of assets (UAH 112.26 billion) among 63 banks operating in the country. The financial institution’s net profit for 2023 amounted to UAH 3.71 billion.
Number of applicants per vacancy (comparison) as of 01.07.2023
Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
