Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

EUROPEAN TRAVEL INSURANCE RAISES NUMBER OF INSURED TOURISTS BY 45%

European Travel Insurance (Kyiv) in January-September 2019 increased the number of insured tourists by 45% compared to the same period in 2018, to 1.375 million people, the insurer said in a press release.
According to its data, the total amount of premiums collected for this period in 2019 increased by 47% compared to the same period in 2018, and amounted to UAH 248 million, while over the nine months of 2018 the company collected premiums in the amount of UAH 169 million.
The company’s net profit for this period after paying taxes under the IFRS system amounted to UAH 48.740 million.
According to the press release, for the nine months of 2019 the company registered 13,306 insurance cases in the amount of UAH 79 million with tourists abroad and 141 insurance events for UAH 269,000 in Ukraine. In total, during this period of the year, 16 major insurance events worth more than UAH 300,000 each were recorded, and the total amount of payments on them exceeded UAH 8.2 million.
According to the company, for the nine months of 2019, the majority of appeals were received from Turkey (35%, or 4,640 cases), Egypt (21%, or 2,823 cases), and Bulgaria (6%, or 833 cases).

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NET PROFIT OF ING BANK IN UKRAINE INCREASES BY 70%

The net profit of ING Bank Ukraine (Kyiv) in January-September 2019 totaled UAH 581.984 million, which is 70.7% more than a year ago (UAH 311.638 million), according to quarterly financial statements of the bank posted on its website last week.
The net profit in Q3 2019 totaled UAH 165.506 million, which is 69.3% more than a year ago.
Net interest income for in January-September this year increased 5.7% compared to the corresponding period of 2018, to UAH 756.340 million.
According to the results of January-September 2019, the bank’s assets increased 11.0%, to UAH 12.159 billion, including loans issued to customers, which decreased 29.9%, to UAH 5.977 billion.
Bank liabilities from the beginning of the year grew by 17.3%, to UAH 8.051 billion.
The bank’s net worth for this period increased 0.5%, to UAH 4.108 billion. The charter capital remained at the level of UAH 731.298 million.
ING Bank Ukraine was founded in 1997. By January 1, 2019, its sole shareholder was ING Bank N.V.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), on July 1, 2019, ING BankUkraine ranked 22nd in terms of net assets (UAH 11.413 billion) among 76 operating Ukrainian banks.

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UKRZALIZNYTSIA SEEKS TO IMPLEMENT 50% DRAWDOWN AMONG CLERICAL STAFF STARTING FROM 2020

JSC Ukrzaliznytsia (Kyiv) from 2020 seeks to implement the 40-50% drawdown among clerical personnel, a member of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Zeljko Marcek, has said.
“No one is going to cut 120,000 employees in one year. Work continues with the relevant ministry, government, and the World Bank on a program to gradually optimize staff over the next three or five years. There is a road map,” he said in an interview for the company’s project “12 Persons of the Ukrzaliznytsia Strategy.”
Marcek said that Ukrzaliznytsia will get rid of non-core assets.
Ukrzaliznytsia pays salaries to lumberjacks, foresters and dancers. On the balance sheet of the company are hundreds of enterprises not related to rail transportation. This Soviet heritage forces us to pay utility bills and land tax at a time when only 10 out of 200 social facilities are profitable. Therefore, we will have to get rid of assets not related to railways, rolling stock and communications facilities,” he said.
At the same time, according to Marcek, with the sale of non-core assets and a decrease in the number of employees, the wages of the main production personnel should increase significantly. In addition, programs will be developed that will attract qualified personnel and make the railway attractive to young people.

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FIRST UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL BANK SEES 37% RISE IN NET PROFIT

The net profit of First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB, Kyiv) in January-September 2019 totaled UAH 1.994 billion, which is 36.8% more than a year ago (UAH 1.458 billion), according to quarterly financial statements of the bank posted on its website on Thursday.
The net profit in Q3 2019 amounted to UAH 728.905 million, which is 60.1% more than a year ago.
Net interest income in January-September 2019 increased 31% compared to the corresponding period of 2018, to UAH 3.884 billion.
The bank’s assets in January-September 2019 increased 3.2%, to UAH 51.444 billion, including loans issued to customers by 12.8%, to UAH 30.727 billion.
Bank liabilities from the beginning of the year decreased 1.2%, to UAH 43.029 billion.
The bank’s net worth for this period increased 33.1%, to UAH 8.415 billion. The charter capital remained at the level of UAH 3.294 billion.
FUIB was founded in 1991. The substantial shareholder in the bank is Rinat Akhmetov (99.9% indirectly).
According to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), as of July 1, 2019, FUIB ranked eighth (UAH 59.858 billion) in terms of total assets among 76 banks operating in the country.

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LEADING UKRAINIAN MOBILE OPERATOR SEES 33.1% RISE IN EBIDTA IN Q3 2019

JSC Kyivstar, the mobile communications operator, in July-September 2019 increased general income by 18.3% year-over-year, to UAH 5.828 billion, the company’s press service reported on Monday, referring to its quarterly financial statements.
The press service said that over the period Kyivstar increased earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) by 33.1%, to UAH 3.772 billion, and EBITDA margin grew by 7.2 percentage points (p.p.), to 64.7%.
Revenue from mobile operator services in the third quarter amounted to UAH 5.466 billion, which is 18.8% higher than the indicator for the same period in 2018.
The volume of data traffic consumption increased 69.1%, to 3.969 GB per subscriber. At the same time, the consumption of voice services remained stable: on average 566 minutes per subscriber were used, which is 0.3% more than a year earlier.
The number of Kyivstar mobile Internet users increased 12.1%, to 16.3 million, and the total number of active subscribers by the end of the third quarter was 26.4 million, which were 200,000 less than a year earlier.
According to the company, average revenue per user (ARPU) from mobile communications increased 19.9%, to UAH 69.
Revenue from fixed line services increased 10.3%, to UAH 333 million. At the same time, the number of subscribers increased 11%, to 1 million. Fixed line Internet ARPU grew by 4.3%, to UAH 74.
Capital investments for the reporting period amounted to UAH 1.37 billion, which is 85.8% more than for the same period last year.
In general, in January-September 2019, Kyivstar increased revenue 20.9%, to UAH 16.577 billion, and EBITDA – 37.7%, to UAH 10.652 billion.
Kyivstar is the largest Ukrainian mobile operator. It provides communication and data transfer services based on a wide range of mobile and fixed line technologies, including 4G.

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CHANGES IN CURRENCY EXCHANGE, UAH/RUB, 30.08.19.-30.10.19.

Changes in currency exchange, UAH/RUB, 30.08.19.-30.10.19.

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