Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

NBU fined FC Axioma and FC Centrofinance UAH 200,000

The National Bank of Ukraine fined FC Axioma LLC UAH 200,000 for violating currency legislation.

The violations concerned the timing of providing fragments of video archive data at the request of the NBU. A similar fine of UAH 200,000 was imposed on FC Centrofinance LLC for failure to comply with the requirements for equipping a separate unit with a video surveillance system for currency transactions.

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Twelve publishers fined nearly UAH 1.9 mln for scandalous delay in textbook delivery

Twelve publishers have been fined a total of UAH 1.896 million for violating the terms of delivery of textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025, according to the Institute for the Modernisation of Education Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

According to the Institute’s response to a request from the agency ‘Interfax-Ukraine’, twelve publishers violated the deadlines for delivering textbooks to general secondary education institutions in 2025.

In this regard, these publishers have been fined for violating the terms of the contract, in particular: Abetka LLC must pay a fine of 15,063 hryvnias; Alaton Publishing House LLC – 323,987 hryvnias; Aston LLC – UAH 142,505; Atlant Publishing House LLC – UAH 140; Bukrek MPP – UAH 2,189; Genesis LLC – UAH 684,832; TO ‘Gymnasium’ LLC – 141,936 UAH; ‘Methodika Publishing’ LLC – 528 UAH; ‘Educational Book – Bohdan’ Publishing House LLC – 7,202 UAH; ‘UOVC ’ORION” LLC – 561,157 UAH; Rannok Publishing House LLC – 4,916 UAH; Shkolyar Educational and Publishing Centre LLC – 12,455 UAH.

As reported, on 5 September 2025, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi, stated that all planned textbooks would be accepted by schools by 15 September. However, as of 15 September, more than 10% of the planned textbooks had still not been delivered to schools.

On 18 September 2025, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation, as in the previous year, recognised the work of the Ministry of Education in providing schools with textbooks as unsatisfactory and acknowledged that the new mechanism for delivering textbooks needed urgent refinement.

On 25 September 2025, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Nadiya Kuzmychova announced that publishers who failed to deliver textbooks to schools on time would pay millions in penalties. She also expressed hope that the issue of textbook delivery would be resolved by the end of September.

On 14 November 2025, according to data from the dashboard of the Ministry of Education’s Institute of Educational Analytics, 100% of the planned textbooks had been delivered to schools.

At the end of December 2025, the Ministry of Education announced that in 2026 Ukraine would switch to a two-year cycle for the creation of textbooks and would continue to implement a model of delivering textbooks from publishers directly to schools.

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NBU fined FC Goldana Plus and FC Forward Finance UAH 340,000 each

The National Bank of Ukraine fined FC Goldana Plus LLC and FC Forward Finance LLC UAH 340,000 each.

According to the regulator, the companies failed to properly submit accurate information and documents in full to the NBU upon request.

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NBU fined credit institution EV.RO.Lombard EV.RO.Finance LTD and Company UAH 595,000

The National Bank of Ukraine imposed sanctions on the financial institution EV.RO.Lombard EV.RO.Finance LTD and Company, imposing a fine of UAH 595,000.

The fine was imposed for violations of financial monitoring requirements, in particular with regard to internal documents and procedures, risk-based approach, reporting, and responses to regulator requests.

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NBU fines Clearing House Bank UAH 200,000

The National Bank of Ukraine has fined Clearing House Bank UAH 200,000 for violating financial monitoring legislation.

In particular, the bank failed to comply with the prohibition on notifying customers of decisions made by the specially authorized body for financial transactions, the NBU said.

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NBU fines Motor Bank UAH 3 mln

The National Bank of Ukraine has imposed sanctions on Motor Bank, fining it UAH 3.0 million.

According to the regulator, the bank violated the requirements of the legislation in the field of preventing money laundering and terrorist financing, in particular, in terms of proper customer verification and the application of a risk-based approach.

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