PrivatBank (Kyiv) has sold through OpenMarket (SETAM) nine tank farms in working condition for a total cost of UAH 15.67 million against an initial cost of UAH 9.4 million, the press service of SETAM state enterprise has reported.
According to the report, oil depots are situated in four regions: Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia, Zhytomyr and Sumy regions.
According to the press service, in Kirovohrad region one regional oil depot was sold at a starting price of UAH 1.989 million, another one located in the village of Hruzke of Kirovohrad region was sold for UAH 3.715 million under the starting price of UAH 0.79 million.
In Zhytomyr region, two tank farms were sold: for UAH 2.1 million under the starting price of UAH 0.654 million in the village of Yablunets, and another one for UAH 0.884 million under the starting price of UAH 0.553 million in the village of Zarudyntsi.
PrivatBank also sold at the auction three tank farms in Sumy region: in Lebedyn urban-type settlement for UAH 1.5 million with the starting price being UAH 0.644 million, in the village of Krasnopillya for UAH 1.098 million, and in the village of Bilany for UAH 0.789 million under the starting price of UAH 0.125 million.
Two tank farms were sold in Zaporizhia region: in Komyzh-Zorya urban-type settlement and in the town of Polohy tanks farms were sold under the starting prices – UAH 2.497 million and UAH 1.097 million respectively.
As reported, in July PrivatBank put up seven tank farms in a working condition for sale through OpenMarket for a total worth of UAH 1.059 billion.
Net profit of PrivatBank (Kyiv) in January-June 2019 totaled UAH 18.3 billion, which is 2.7 times more than a year ago (UAH 6.9 billion), PrivatBank Board Chairman Petr Krumphanzl has told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, net interest income of the bank over the period amounted to UAH 9.8 billion, net commission income reached UAH 8.5 billion.
“One of the significant factors that contributed to the achievement of good financial result is the high efficiency of the bank. This is ensured by significant automation of processes, high efficiency of the regional network, which includes almost 2,000 branches,” the banker said.
As reported, the government of Ukraine on December 18, 2016, referring to the offer of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and former shareholders of PrivatBank, the largest of who at that time were Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov, decided to nationalize this largest Ukrainian financial institution and infused over UAH 155 billion in its capital.
According to the NBU, PrivatBank as of April 1, 2019 was first among 77 banks operating on the market in terms of total assets (UAH 525.698 billion).
Ukraine has started a tender to select candidates for the posts of independent members of the supervisory boards of state-owned PrivatBank, Oschadbank and Ukreximbank. According to a posting on the website of the Finance Ministry, the tender was started on April 5 and will be completed before May 10.
As reported, the Finance Ministry early April 2019 selected Pedersen & Partners recruiting company to search for candidates to the post of independent members of the supervisory board of state-owned Oschadbank, Ward Howell Ukraine to search for candidates for state-owned Ukreximbank and Talent Advisors, part of Odgers Berndtson Ukraine, to search for candidates for state-owned PrivatBank.
According to the ministry’s report, candidates who want to take part in the tender must apply to these recruiting companies by April 25.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada early July 2018 adopted a law on the reform of the supervisory boards of state-run banks, according to which the supervisory board of state-owned banks should consist of nine members. Six of them should be independent, three – representatives of the state, one each from the president, the Cabinet of Ministers and the parliament.
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PrivatBank (Kyiv) in 2018 saw UAH 11.7 billion of net profit, Board Chairman Petr Krumphanzl has said.
“2018 was not easy, but we were successful. I think that this figure [profit] is a contribution for the state, because it helps the development of the country, it helps the stability of the financial system, and it helps us to implement the strategy [of the bank’s development] approved by the Ministry of Finance. This is the best result since the economic crisis and the outbreak of war, and I am pleased that today I can name this figure – UAH 11.7 billion,” he said at a briefing in Dnipro on Tuesday.
PrivatBank by the end of this year plans to launch a new online service in Ukraine to sell government domestic loan bonds to individuals via its Privat24 platform.
“Together with the NBU, PrivatBank is developing online integration with the securities depository for the simplicity and convenience of making deals in remote channels,” the financial institution said.
According to the bank, together with the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, work is underway to amend a number of regulatory acts to simplify the purchase of government domestic loan bonds by individuals. In particular, this is regulation No. 735 regarding simplification of the procedure for opening an account in securities and regulation No. 1708 regarding the division of responsibilities between the bank’s branches when settling transactions with securities.
PrivatBank said that since the beginning of the year, as part of the experiment on the sale of government domestic loan bonds through VIP branches, it sold to its private customers government domestic loan bonds worth about UAH 0.5 billion, providing more than 15% of the total portfolio growth.
Since the beginning of the year, according to the NBU, the portfolio of government domestic loan bonds of individuals has grown 3.1 times, or UAH 3.05 billion, to UAH 4.52 billion. In particular, the portfolio of the hryvnia-pegged bonds increased 5.9-fold, to UAH 1.08 billion, U.S. dollar-pegged bonds – 2.7-fold, to UAH 3.23 billion and euro-pegged bonds – 2.5-fold, to the equivalent of UAH 0.21 billion.
The largest state-owned bank PrivatBank (Kyiv) launched the Apple Pay service on Thursday.
“Apple Pay in Ukraine! Today PrivatBank launched this globally popular payment service,” Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk wrote on his Facebook page. He said that this is the indicator of the attractiveness of the Ukrainian market for global innovative companies.
PrivatBank said in a press release that a credit or debit card of the bank Visa or Mastercard should be connected via Privat24 or Wallet applications to use the new payment service.
“One can use iPhone SE, iPhone 6 and later models of iPhone, as well as Apple Watch to pay in stores,” the bank said.
PrivatBank Board Chairman Peter Krumphanzl later at a briefing said that the arrival of Apple Pay in Ukraine means in practice a breakthrough in the state cashless program.
“This is a big step for Ukraine, on the one hand, from the point of view of innovation, and on the other hand, from the point of view of the state cashless program. This is a big step forward. I think this is very important for Ukraine,” he said.
The head of the retail business at PrivatBank, Oleksiy Shaban, added that the arrival of one of the world’s leading mobile payment technologies to the Ukrainian market is becoming a decisive incentive for large and small businesses to actively switch to cashless technologies. “We expect that for the first month of Apple Pay work in Ukraine a significant increase in the share of mobile payments by our customers will be seen,” he said.
Shaban said that at present more than 2 million customers of the bank are users of the Privat24mobile application.
According to Country Manager of the representative office of Mastercard Europe in Ukraine Vira Platonova, the number of payments using a mobile phone in Ukraine in 2017 increased 14 times, and this resulted in the arrival of Apple Pay to the country.
“Ukraine is a very developed market in terms of contactless payments. In the world in 2017, the number of payments with a mobile phone quadrupled, and in Ukraine it increased 14 times. It is therefore not surprising that Apple Pay came to Ukraine – one of the first countries in our region,” she said.
Platonova said that Ukrainians often pay with the help of mobile devices in retail networks, in transport, in restaurants and at gas stations.
“Payments using a mobile phone are absolutely safe, the level of fraud in these transactions is almost a nil,” she said.
