Agromat LLC, an industrial and technical company that began a public offering of three-year Series “J” bonds worth 100 million hryvnia in late July, launched a similar offering of Series “K” bonds worth another 100 million hryvnia on August 5.
According to the company’s filing with the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), the interest rate on the bonds—which have three-month coupons—is 16% per annum for the first six months, and for each subsequent six-month period through July 2029, it is 3-month UIRD (Ukrainian Index of Interest Rates on Deposits for Individuals) +4.9 percentage points.
Bonds with a face value of 1,000 UAH will be placed at par through the PFTS exchange, with the state-owned Ukrgasbank acting as the investment firm. The public offering of the bonds is limited to qualified investors and will run from August 5 to October 4, 2026.
The nominal interest rate for the previous “J” series issue, registered by the National Securities and Stock Market Commission on July 17 of this year, is set at 16% per annum for the first six months of circulation. The public offering period runs from July 29 to September 21, 2026.
It is noted that Agromat corporate bonds of Series “H,” “I,” and “J” are currently in circulation, each with a total face value of 100 million UAH.
Agromat, established in 1993, manufactures and sells ceramic tiles and bathroom fixtures. It operates through 33 retail locations in 21 cities across Ukraine and online at agromat.ua. According to the YouControl analytical system, the company’s co-owners, each holding a 28.65% stake, are CEO Serhiy Voitenko, Oksana Reva, and Anatoliy Taday; an additional 10.05% is owned by Olga Bashota, and 4% by Nadiya Rushelyuk.
According to information on its website, based on the results for 2025, PTK LLC “Agromat” increased its net revenue by 5.2% compared to the previous year—to 3.59 billion UAH—and its net profit by 91.4%, to 148 million UAH. In the first half of 2026, net revenue grew by 20.2% compared to the same period last year—to 1.9 billion UAH, while the net loss amounted to 177.5 million UAH, compared to a net profit of 87.1 million UAH a year ago.
As of June 30, 2026, the Agromat Group’s creditors include Raiffeisen Bank—UAH 199 million at 14.9%, Pivdenny Bank—UAH 30 million at 16.5%, OTP Bank—UAH 90 million at 16.5%, Crédit Agricole—78 million UAH at 14.25%, Kredobank—75.1 million UAH at 15.5%, and ProCredit for a total of 185.8 million UAH at rates ranging from 3.76% to 15.5%.
According to Fixygen, PFTS Stock Exchange JSC will hold a general meeting of shareholders on April 29, 2026, via remote participation. The agenda includes the approval of financial statements and issues regarding the exchange’s future operations.
PFTS is one of Ukraine’s oldest stock exchanges. Its major shareholders are professional market participants—banks and investment companies. Large blocks of shares are distributed among financial institutions, with no single shareholder holding absolute control.
On September 16, the leasing company ULF-Finance LLC, part of Sergey Tigipko’s TAS Group, began a public offering of five-year bonds of series F1 and E1 with a total nominal value of UAH 150 million and UAH 250 million, respectively, on the PFTS stock exchange.
“The financial resources raised from the placement of bonds are planned to be used in full (100%) to finance an increase in the volume of financial leasing services,” the prospectuses note.
According to the prospectuses, coupon income on F1 series bonds is paid upon redemption at a rate of 20% per annum, while E1 series bonds provide for an annual offer and quarterly interest payments, with a nominal yield of 19% per annum in the first year of circulation.
The nominal value of each issue is UAH 1,000, and the placement period is until August 23 of the following year. There is no information about transactions concluded on the exchange yet.
According to the prospectuses, before entering the market with new issues, the company placed 611,917 thousand bonds of series A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, A1, B1, C1, D1.
The ULF-Finance website states that the company has been operating since 2011 and has been part of the TAS Group since 2017, whose members also include TAScombank and Universal Bank. ULF-Finance provides financial, operational, and reverse leasing services for transport, special equipment, and machinery. Among its clients, the company, which is represented in 17 cities, mentions Ukrzaliznytsia and Nova Poshta.
ULF-Finance’s revenue in the first half of 2025 grew by 46.9% to UAH 260.40 million, while net profit decreased by 33.6% to UAH 37.62 million.
In its prospectus, the company forecasts an increase in revenue this year to UAH 838.84 million and next year to UAH 1,095.11 million, with net profit growing to UAH 113.76 million and UAH 186.70 million, respectively.
In February, NovaPay Credit LLC made a public offering of two issues of interest-bearing bonds of series “D” and “E” with a nominal amount of UAH 100 million each through the PFTS stock exchange.
“100,000 D series interest-bearing bonds with a nominal value of UAH 1,000 with a maturity date of January 19, 2027 and an interest rate of 18% per annum were placed on the PFTS. Also, 100 thousand interest-bearing bonds of series “E” with a nominal value of UAH 1,000 with a maturity date of February 19, 2027 and an interest rate of 18% per annum were placed on the PFTS,” the exchange said.
According to information on the PFTS website, the public offerings were formalized by only two transactions for the entire volume of issues: series D – on February 16, series E – on February 27. Both times the sale price was equal to the face value.
Last year, NovaPay Credit registered with the NSSMC three public issues of interest-bearing bonds of series A, B and C for UAH 100 million each. Series “C” has a maturity of two years instead of three years in the previous two issues and coupon payment on a quarterly basis, while in the issues “A” and “B” interest payment is provided at the end of the circulation.
The interest rate of the “C” series bonds is set at 20% per annum, as in the previous series, but only for the first year of circulation, while for the second year it will be additionally determined with the right of the holders to submit the bonds for mandatory redemption.
In addition, along with the D and E series issues, NovaPay Credit registered a F series issue with the same nominal amount of UAH 100 million at the end of last year. The bonds of these three series have a maturity of three years and pay a single coupon at 18% per annum at maturity. The public offering of the F series will be held from March 19, 2024 to March 18, 2025 through the PFTS exchange.
“NovaPay Credit has already announced that it intends to actively use the bonds issued in repurchase agreements for terms from one month to one year, which are concluded through the NovaPay mobile application, creating a convenient alternative to bank deposits.
The company completed the first nine months of 2023 with a net profit of UAH 29.88 million, while the same period in 2022 resulted in a net loss of UAH 4.97 million. Its revenue tripled to UAH 58.02 million. The loan portfolio amounted to UAH 278 million as of September 30.
It was noted that the company is present in more than 3.6 thousand financial service points.
The PFTS Stock Exchange (Kyiv), the largest stock exchange in Ukraine by trading volume, plans to increase its authorized capital (AC) from UAH 32.01 million to UAH 62.01 million, or 93.7%.
The shareholders will consider the issue at an extraordinary remote shareholders’ meeting on February 6 this year, according to the announcement of the meeting on the exchange’s website.
According to the announcement, the increase in the authorized capital is planned to be made by placing an additional 30 thousand shares with a par value of UAH 1 thousand through additional contributions without a public offering.
The preliminary list of persons among whom the additional shares will be placed is limited to existing shareholders, but the meeting may expand it to include other investors who intend to purchase shares.
The largest shareholder of the PFTS since the beginning of 2022 is Bohai Commodity Exchange (BOCE Co. Limited, Hong Kong) with 49.9% of shares. According to the NSSMC’s disclosure system, there were no other shareholders with a stake of more than 5% at the end of the third quarter of 2023.
At the same time, in mid-October 2023, Prime Holding LLC announced its intention to acquire 2,835 shares of the exchange, which is 8.8566% of its authorized capital.
PFTS did not publish financial statements after 9 months of 2021. According to information from the last annual shareholders’ meeting, the exchange reduced its net loss in 2022 by 8.6% compared to 2021, to UAH 3.641 million.
The volume of trading on the PFTS in 2023, according to the exchange, increased 3.6 times to UAH 320.8 billion, which accounted for 63% of the total trading volume of securities trading organizers in Ukraine, including UAH 28.6 billion in December, or 66% of the total trading volume in the country.
In particular, the volume of trades in government bonds on the PFTS in 2023 increased 3 times to UAH 308.6 billion, corporate bonds of Ukrainian issuers – 20 times to UAH 1 billion (due to the resumption of initial public offerings), bonds of foreign countries – 5 times to UAH 0.7 billion, but transactions in shares were made for only UAH 19.4 million.
In 2023, 15.7% of transactions were made on the order market, 78.7% on the quotation market (including targeted transactions), 5.3% in repo and repo with risk control, and 0.3% in the auction mode.
In December 2023, 39 trading participants on the PFTS concluded transactions with 48 securities issues (Ukrainian government bonds – 33, Ukrainian Eurobonds – 1, corporate bonds of Ukrainian issuers – 7, foreign bonds – 6, shares of Ukrainian issuers – 1), and in total, in 2023, 49 participants concluded transactions with 114 securities issues.
As of January 1, 2024, the number of PFTS members admitted to trading was 51: 30 banks and 21 financial companies. A total of 353 securities issues were admitted to trading on the exchange, of which 119 were in the Exchange Register.
The TOP-5 traders of government bonds on the PFTS in 2023 include state-owned Ukreximbank and PrivatBank, as well as Citibank, OTP Bank and Alliance Bank, while the TOP-5 traders of corporate bonds include TAScombank, Dominant Trade LLC, BTS Broker, Univer Capital and Investment Capital Ukraine.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has approved an application of China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange (BOCE) to acquire a stake in the share capital of PJSC PFTS Stock Exchange (Kyiv), the press service of the committee has told Interfax-Ukraine. As reported, BOCE early May 2018 asked the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for preliminary conclusions on the acquisition of over 25% of shares in PFTS. The application was returned, as information was not disclosed in a proper way. Late September, the Chinese exchange repeatedly submitted the documents.
PFTS Stock Exchange is one of the oldest in the Ukrainian stock market. In 2017, the volume of exchange contracts on the PFTS amounted to UAH 64.34 billion, and this indicator was less only compared with the Perspectiva stock exchange (UAH 127.43 billion), but it is more than at the Ukrainian Exchange (UAH 13.41 billion). The main volume of trading fell on government bonds – UAH 57.99 billion, while the turnover of shares amounted to UAH 3.16 billion, bonds of enterprises – UAH 3.19 billion.
PFTS in 2017 received a net profit of UAH 0.82 million against a net loss of UAH 1.78 million a year earlier, increasing revenues by 61.5%, to UAH 9.45 million.
Its main shareholders are Parvana Ltd. with 8.9034% of shares, Crooxton Limited – 9.0596%, Primeview Ltd. – 8.4973%, Dakal Ltd. – 9.372% and Boline Ltd. – 9, 2158%, which beneficiaries are unknown.
