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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN NON-BANKING FINANCIAL MARKET OF UKRAINE DECREASED IN JUNE BY SIX COMPANIES

The number of participants in the non-banking financial market of Ukraine decreased in June by six companies, to 1,653, according to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).
At the same time, the regulator clarifies that no new participants have appeared.
According to the NBU, the number of banks as of June 30 has not changed and is 69 financial institutions.
The number of non-life insurance companies – 129, life insurance companies – 13, credit unions – 187 and collection companies – 67 remained unchanged.
At the same time, both the number of pawnshops (to 195) and the number of leasing companies (108) decreased by two participants. One financial company left the market (892 continue to work) and one insurance broker (62).
At the same time, it is indicated that 24 banking groups and 23 non-banking financial groups are recognized on the market.
In the payment market, according to the regulator, there are 37 national payment systems, including state ones, and 16 international payment systems.
In June, the National Bank received 207 requests from market participants for registration and licensing actions. There were 154 requests for financial companies, pawnshops and lessors, 18 for insurers, 34 for credit institutions (banks and credit unions), and one for payment institutions.

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MORE THAN 4 000 FINTECH-STARTUPS BECOME PARTICIPANTS OF GLOBAL MARKETPLACE LET’SPARTNER

Since the launch of global marketplace Let’sPartner in April 2018, designed to become an effective platform for communication of Fintech-startups and corporates, over 4 thousand startups and 2 thousand corporations from 89 countries of the world have become its participants. This has been reported by the press service of the project with reference to its founders and authors – well-known fintech experts Anastasiya Shevchenko and Alexey Puznyak.
The new international platform is dynamically increasing the number of its participants – Fintech startups and corporations, having no analogues not only in Ukraine and in the post-Soviet space, but throughout the world.
Marketplace allows you to quickly establish partnerships between startup projects and corporate business. At the same time, in the near future, Fintech startups and interested corporations from different corners of the globe will be able to easy – in one click – choose partners and exchange direct contacts for further cooperation. At the same time, other similar projects have a closed format of participation and usually it is paid services.
Since the start of the project in April 2018, the marketplace has undergone major qualitative changes, going from a landing page to a fully functional platform for comfortable communications.
Now the work continues on the qualitative improvement of the participants’ base. The project is scaled both with the help of online registration of companies on the marketplace and with the active support of ambassadors – reputable fintech-experts in different countries.
The number of participants is growing at a high rate without investment in marketing and project promotion. This demonstrates the relevance of the platform for participants in the digital market.
According to one of the authors of the marketplace Let’spartner, founder and CEO of Fintech Solutions, general manager of Adecco Ukraine Anastasia Shevchenko, the implemented format allows to speak of marketplace as Linkedin for startups and corporations. “It is worth noting the technical capabilities of the platform,” says Anastasia Shevchenko. “By registering on Let’s Partner, participants can, thanks to the chat created on the platform, discuss business interests in a matter of minutes and exchange direct contacts”.
“In implementing the project of Let’s Partner, we tried to be as useful as possible to corporations and startups,” emphasizes Alexey Puznyak, co-creator of the Let’sPartner’s marketplace. With its help, corporations can open for the community tasks that are relevant to them, and startups, will be able to offer their services or projects as solutions. In fact, we are talking about organizing online tenders that can be effectively implemented in a very short time. ”
The collection of online-applications from startups and corporations from different countries of the world continues on the official Internet portal of the marketplace www.letspartner.co.
Project initiators are also open to applications from potential marketplace ambassadors in the CIS, Europe and America.

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