On November 16, the National Bank of Ukraine cancelled licenses for 17 non-bank financial institutions and excluded 13 from the State Register of Financial Institutions, the regulator’s website reported.
Thus, on the basis of their own applications, all the licenses of the following LLCs were cancelled: FC Favorit, Capital Properties, Fin2go, Professional Payment System, Agema Finance, ICC Finance, Skye FC, Favorit FC, Parus FC, FC “Finex Capital”, FC “Tessella Asset Finance”, PO “Lombard Creditom” LLC “Autodoc” and company, FC “Center of factoring services”, FC “Sokur”.
In addition, some licenses were revoked on the basis of the applications received: FC Technofinance – for the provision of financial leasing services, Profitgid – for the provision of factoring services, the provision of financial leasing services, FC Fin Pay – for the provision of factoring services, lending funds, including a financial loan.
Based on the received applications and documents the following companies were excluded from the State register of financial institutions: PA “Lombard “Creditom”, LLC “Agema Finance”, LLC FC “Favorit”, LLC “Professional Payment System”, LLC “ICC Finance”, LLC “Capital Prospect”, FC “Tessella Asset Finance”, LLC “FC “Favorit”, LLC FC “Finex Capital”, LLC “FC “Factoring Services Center”.
LLC “Financial company “Whitepay” and LLC “Financial company “Pung” were excluded from the State register of financial institutions due to the lack of licenses for activities.
Banks with foreign capital Alfa Bank and Raiffeisen Bank (both in Kiev) topped the list of 46 profitable banks in September with net profit UAH 558.2 million and UAH 522.3 million respectively.
According to the data published by the National Bank of Ukraine on its website with a significant delay, Alfa Bank reduced its reserves by UAH 646.1 mln, while Raiffeisen Bank showed a profit despite the formation of additional 667.9 mln reserves.
Alfa’s assets decreased by UAH 6.6 bln, or 5.9%, while Raiffeisen Bank increased by UAH 5.1 bln, or 3.2%.
There are also three banks with foreign capital in the top five leading positions in September: OTP Bank – UAH 423.0 mln, Ukrsibbank – UAH 399.1 mln and Citibank – UAH 390.5 mln.
Oshchadbank lagged a little behind, showing UAH 371.4 mln of profit in September, despite the increase in reserves by another UAH 1.18 bln. Universal Bank (mono) followed with UAH 222.9 mln and Credit Dnipro Bank with UAH 178.1 mln.
Alfa Bank managed to improve its financial results in September after the largest loss of UAH 1.357 billion, which was registered in August among all banks, while Ukreximbank, that ranked second from the bottom with losses of UAH 1.103 billion, demonstrated only poorer results in September: UAH 3.5 billion with an increase of reserves by UAH 2.47 billion and assets by UAH 16.93 billion.
PrivatBank went from the most profitable bank in August (UAH 3.21 billion) to one of the most unprofitable in September, having showed negative financial results of UAH 317.4 million and decrease of assets by UAH 20.02 billion with insignificant growth of reserves by UAH 0.07 billion.
Idea Bank (UAH 190.3 mln (UAH 67.6 mln), FUIB (UAH 183.1 mln) (UAH 498.1 mln), ProCredit Bank (UAH 145.3 mln) and Alliance Bank (UAH 138.1 mln (UAH 86 mln)) were among the banks with significant losses as of September.
According to the results of nine months of this year, PrivatBank remains the most profitable – UAH 13.83 billion.
It is followed by Oshchadbank with 2.71 billion UAH, Raiffeisen Bank with 2.39 billion UAH, Ukrsibbank with 2.10 billion UAH and Citibank with 1.51 billion UAH, and three private Ukrainian banks: Universal Bank with 0.88 billion UAH, Pivdenny Bank with 0.34 billion UAH and Aybox Bank with 0.29 billion UAH.
The biggest losses in January-September were shown by Ukreximbank – UAH 7.91 billion, Alfa Bank – UAH 4.32 billion, and state-owned Ukrgasbank – UAH 3.36 billion.
ProCredit Bank and Idea Bank are at the bottom of the five losing banks with UAH 1.43 billion and UAH 0.23 billion.
Within nine months of this year 44 banks showed net profit, while 23 banks showed net loss.
The total net profit of all banks amounted to 7.37 billion UAH after the net loss, including 1.06 billion UAH in September. However, excluding PrivatBank, the financial result of the banking system for the nine months will also be negative – 6.46 billion UAH.
According to the National Bank, in September, the total portfolio of government bonds of all banks decreased by UAH 0.24 billion, most of all in Alpha Bank – UAH 1.97 billion, while FUIB – UAH 0.56 billion, Citibank – UAH 0.5 billion, RVS Bank – UAH 0.46 billion.
At the same time, Raiffeisenbank and Oschadbank increased their portfolios of government bonds by UAH 1.09 bln and UAH 2.83 bln, respectively.
On November 11, the National Bank of Ukraine included London Marine Insurance Services Limited to the State Register of Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers, according to the regulator’s website.
It is noted that the NBU has excluded the credit union Center for Financial Services (CFS) from the State Register of Financial Institutions due to the cancellation of all of its licenses for activities in the provision of financial services.
As reported, the licenses were revoked on September 30, 2022 in connection with the decision to terminate the activity of this company by merging with the credit union “SuperCredit”.
As of October 1, 2022 the assets of CC “CFP” was 15,897,15 million UAH (1% of the total market of credit unions), liabilities – 12,253 million UAH (1.4% of the total market of credit unions), including 10,658 million UAH – liabilities to union members in the form of deposits of CC members on deposit accounts.
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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to switch the banking sector from a survival strategy to a strengthening strategy in 2023, its head Andriy Pyshnyy said.
“The strategic priority is to start working today to move from a survival strategy to a strengthening strategy in 2023. Because of this, we will continue to work on development of the concept, which should assess the resilience of the financial sector, assess the quality of assets, give parameters for future stress testing and which should determine the horizons and volumes of future additional capitalization,” he said at a press briefing on Monday.
According to him, in this way it will be possible to ensure a working resilient financial system.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has cancelled licenses of 13 non-banking financial institutions and removed 10 financial institutions from the registers, the regulator’s website reported.
Thus, on the basis of their own applications, all existing licenses of ARES Capital LLC, Infinance LLC, KF.ua LLC, Omega-Finance LLC, FC Aland LLC, FC Alma LLC, FC Intime Finance LLC, and FC Monti LLC were revoked. All companies except for FC “Monti” have been excluded from the State Register of financial institutions.
MOTOR SICH JSC is also excluded from the Register of persons who are not financial institutions but are entitled to provide certain financial services due to the lack of a valid license for the provision of financial services.
In addition, based on the applications received, certain licenses have been revoked for Prime Finance Financial Company LLC to provide guarantees, Debt Obligation Fund Factoring Company LLC to provide guarantees, and Eliance Financial Company LLC to provide financial leasing services.
The National Bank revoked (cancelled) the licenses to provide financial services of CC “Garanta-L.K.” and CC Partner-Plus and excluded these credit unions from the State Register of financial institutions based on their own applications, guided by the special procedure during martial law*.
As of October 1, 2022 the volume of assets of CC “Garant-L.K.” was UAH 1,032 million (0.067% of the credit union market volume), liabilities – UAH 105 thousand (0.012% of the credit union market volume), including UAH 105 thousand – liabilities on which no interest is accrued.
The volume of assets of CC “Partner-Plus” as of October, 1, 2022 made UAH 996,65 th. (0,065% of the total volume of credit unions market), obligations – UAH 23,16 th. (0,003% of the total volume of credit unions market).
Such decisions were made by the Committee on supervision and regulation of non-banking financial services markets on November 3, 2022.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects that if active hostilities with the Russian occupiers continue until mid-2024, the harvest of grain and leguminous crops in the country will decrease (under a pessimistic scenario with a blockade of its ports) to 51.5 million tons in 2023 (- 40% compared to 2021), and up to 52.5 million tons in 2024 (-38.7%).
According to the NBU inflation report for October, the key factor in forecasting crop volumes will be the availability of crop exports from Ukrainian seaports.
Thus, under the scenario of the continuation of Russian aggression until mid-2023, it is expected that the total harvest of grains and legumes in 2023 will be 57 million tons, provided Ukraine has full access to agricultural exports through its Black Sea ports, and 51.5 million tons in the event of their blockade by Russia.
Similarly, if the war continues until mid-2024, Ukraine will be able to harvest in 2024 not 62 million tons of cereals and legumes, as in the case of free maritime exports, but only 52.2 million tons due to the blockade of its port infrastructure.
At the same time, the National Bank predicts the harvest of grain and leguminous crops in 2022 at the level of 52.5 million tons.
The bank recalled that in 2019 Ukraine harvested 75.1 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, in 2020 – 64.9 million tons, in 2021 – a record 85.7 million tons since independence.
As reported, by October 28, Ukrainian farmers had harvested 48.81 million tons of main crops from a total area of 13.13 million hectares, or 70% of the previously planned areas.
Ukraine in 2021 harvested a record harvest of grains, legumes and oilseeds of 106 million tons: grains and legumes – 84 million tons, oilseeds – 22.6 million tons.
