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PrivatBank has increased its net profit by almost 5 times

Net profit of the state-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv) for January-June 2023 amounted to UAH 29.75 billion, which is 4.7 times higher than in the same period of 2022, according to the unconsolidated semi-annual report of the bank.

According to it, in particular, in the second quarter of this year net profit reached UAH 13.7 billion, which is 5.3 times higher than the net profit for the second quarter of last year.

It is indicated that the net interest income of PrivatBank for the first half of the year increased by 81.4% to UAH 27.86 billion, including in the second quarter the growth amounted to 74.2% to UAH 14.09 billion.

Meanwhile, net fee and commission income in January-June this year increased by 41.3% to UAH 11.64 billion, including in the second quarter – by 43.65% to UAH 5.94 billion.

A significant contribution to the improvement of the bank’s financial result was made by a decrease in the loss from utility reduction in the first half of this year to UAH 769 million, while for the same period last year this indicator amounted to UAH 7.54 billion. According to the report, in the second quarter of this year, this item even generated UAH 51 million in profit against a loss of UAH 5.67 billion in the second quarter of last year.

PrivatBank also reports that its total profit for the first half of this year reached UAH 35.89 billion, which is 7.4 times higher than the figure for January-June last year, including a total profit of UAH 19.325 billion in the second quarter-2023 against UAH 4.85 billion in the same period of 2022.

According to the report, the bank’s assets grew by 5% in the first half of 2023, reaching UAH 568.84 billion by June 30.

This growth is explained by an increase in cash and funds with the NBU from UAH 96.4 billion to UAH 148.23 billion and loans and advances to customers from UAH 68.08 billion to UAH 76.53 billion, while investments in securities increased marginally from UAH 239.75 billion to UAH 240.64 billion, and debts of other banks decreased by 24.6% to UAH 78.3 billion.

PrivatBank’s customer funds increased from UAH 471.97 billion to UAH 488.06 billion in the first six months of 2023, while capital increased from UAH 57.79 billion to UAH 69.52 billion.

According to the National Bank of Ukraine as of June 1, 2023, PrivatBank is the leader in terms of total assets (UAH 742.433 billion) among 65 operating banks in the country.

According to the NBU, Privat closed 79 branches in the second quarter, reducing its network to 1,131 units across Ukraine, although its report said it had eight branches and 1,199 operating outlets at mid-year, just one less than at the beginning of the year.

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Raiffeisen Bank has increased its net profit by 5 times

Net unconsolidated profit of Raiffeisen Bank (Kiev) for January-June this year amounted to UAH 3 billion 118.67 million, which is five times higher than in the same period of 2022, according to the unaudited report of the bank on its website.

According to it, in the second quarter of this year, the bank increased the financial result to the second quarter of last year by 39.6% – up to UAH 1 billion 57.54 million.

It is indicated that Raiffeisen Bank’s net interest income for January-June 2023 increased by 53.0% to UAH 7 billion 907.76 million, including in the second quarter – by 43.8% to UAH 3 billion 955.68 million.

As follows from the report, net commission income for the first six months of this year increased by 82.6% to UAH 1 billion 267.64 million, including in the second quarter – twice, to UAH 639.79 million.

At the same time, net profit from foreign currency transactions decreased by 12.8% to UAH 903.49 million in the first half of the year, while the loss from decreased utility increased by 7.9% to UAH 3 billion 127.34 million.

According to the report, in January-June this year, the bank’s assets grew by UAH 5.84 billion, or 3.5% – to UAH 172.10 billion.

Such growth is explained by a significant increase in investments in securities – from UAH 25.41 billion to UAH 34.17 billion, cash and funds with the NBU – from UAH 32.04 billion to UAH 38.15 billion and loans and advances to banks – from UAH 39.08 billion to UAH 42.26 billion.

At the same time, loans and advances to customers decreased from UAH 61.69 billion to UAH 50.25 billion.

Raiffeisen Bank’s customer funds for the first half of 2023 increased from UAH 143.61 billion to UAH 146.50 billion, while the bank’s capital increased from UAH 17.06 billion to UAH 20.17 billion, including retained earnings – from UAH 1.58 billion to UAH 3.14 billion.

In a press release on Tuesday, the bank added that its gross revenues for the first six months of 2023 grew by 48% to UAH 10.4 billion, the amount of taxes paid amounted to UAH 1.1 billion, and its portfolio of government bonds grew by almost UAH 10 billion.

“Raif’s lending dynamics reflect the existing demand for loans and the creditworthiness of customers. Since the beginning of 2023, the bank issued UAH 48.2 billion of new loans, of which UAH 32.6 billion – to industries that are critical for the country (agribusiness, retail, pharmaceuticals, fuel supplies)”, – indicated the financial institution, specifying that UAH 13.5 billion of loans were directed to agrarians.

It is noted that as of June 30, 2023, the bank formed UAH 14.6 billion of reserves, and the share of non-performing loans (NPL) amounted to 16.3% at the end of June.

It is also specified that the funds of corporate customers at the end of June 2023 amounted to 63.1 billion UAH and increased year-on-year by 14 billion UAH, or 29%, while the funds of retail customers increased by 11.2 billion UAH, or 16% – to 81.6 billion UAH.

As of the end of June 2023, the capital adequacy level of Raiffeisen Bank amounted to 25.38% with the minimum value of 10%, and the tier 1 capital adequacy level amounted to 19.03% with the minimum value of 7%.

Raiffeisen Bank JSC was registered in Ukraine in 1992 and is the largest bank with foreign capital in Ukraine, ranking 4th among 65 Ukrainian banks in terms of total assets at the beginning of June. Since October 2005, the bank became part of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International AG. As of March 31, 2023, Raiffeisen Group owned 68.21% of the bank’s shares, while the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development owned 30%.

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“Ukrgraphite” has received UAH 83.5 mln profit in first half of year

PJSC “Ukrainian Graphite” (“Ukrgraphite”, Zaporizhzhya) according to the results of work in January-June of the current year received net profit in the amount of UAH 83.556 mln, whereas it finished the same period of the last year with net loss of UAH 22.135 mln.

According to the company’s interim report, the company increased its income by 22.6% to UAH 938.909 mln in the first half of the year.

The company’s retained earnings at the end of the first half of this year amounted to UAH 3 billion 789.045 million.

As reported, “Ukrgrafit” in January-March-2023 increased net profit 42.9 times compared to the same period of the previous year – up to UAH 70.723 million, but reduced net income by 11% to UAH 437.326 million.

“Ukrgrafit” in 2022 reduced net income by 41.4% year-on-year to UAH 1 billion 545.562 million, received a net profit of UAH 52.584 million, while it ended 2021 with a net loss of UAH 317.539 million.

“Ukrgraphit” is Ukraine’s leading producer of graphitized electrodes for electric steelmaking, ore-thermal and other types of electric furnaces, commercial carbon masses for Soderberg electrodes, carbon-based lining materials for enterprises of metallurgical, machine-building, chemical and other industrial complexes.

According to the National Depository of Ukraine (NDU) as of the fourth quarter of 2022, Intergraphite Holdings Company Limited (Bermuda) owns 23.9841% of PJSC, C6 Safe Group Limited (Cyprus) – 72.0394%.

Authorized capital of Private JSC is UAH 233.959 mln, nominal value of 1 share is UAH 3.35.

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FUIB’s net profit increased more than 16 times in January-June this year

The net profit of First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB, Kyiv) for January-June this year amounted to UAH 3 billion 676.54 million, which is 16.8 times higher than in the same period of 2022, according to the bank’s report in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC).

According to the report, FUIB’s net interest income for January-June 2023 increased 4.3 times to UAH 5 billion 743.88 million.

Net fee and commission income for six months of the current year increased by 31.5% to UAH 1 billion 93.01 million, the report says.

It is stated that in January-June this year FUIB disbanded UAH 341.80 million of reserves, while in the same period last year it increased them by UAH 4 billion 267.11 million.

The bank’s total profit for the first half of 2023 reached UAH 4 billion 19.74 million against UAH 78.61 million in the first half of last year.

According to the report, in January-June this year, the bank’s assets grew by UAH 13 billion 736.74 million, reaching UAH 125 billion 710.96 million.

Such growth is explained by a significant increase in investments in securities – from UAH 12 billion 586.77 million to UAH 45 billion 547.69 million, while cash and funds with the NBU, on the contrary, decreased by 1.7 times – to UAH 27 billion 151.01 million.

At the same time, loans and advances to customers increased from UAH 43.77 billion to UAH 44.78 billion, while debts of other banks increased by UAH 0.64 billion to UAH 41.27 billion.

FUIB’s customer funds increased from UAH 90 billion 38 million to UAH 104 billion 77 million in the first half of 2023, while the bank’s capital increased from UAH 11 billion 76 million to UAH 15 billion 71 million, including retained earnings from UAH 3 billion 82 million to UAH 7 billion 502 million.

FUIB was founded in 1991, according to its website, it serves about 1.5 million customers and is owned by Rinat Akhmetov. According to the NBU data as of June 1, FUIB was among the top ten largest banks in the country, ranking 8th among 65 operating Ukrainian banks in terms of assets (UAH 131.96 billion). As of the end of June, the bank’s network included 5 regional branches and 221 outlets, compared to 213 outlets at the beginning of the year.

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Net profit of OTP Bank in Ukraine for January-June amounted to almost UAH 3 bln

Net profit of OTP Bank for January-June 2023 amounted to UAH 2 billion 854.46 million compared to net loss of UAH 783.06 million in January-June 2022, according to the unconsolidated semi-annual report of the bank.

According to it, in particular, net profit in the second quarter of this year reached UAH 1 billion 395.28 million, which is 27.1 times higher than the net profit for the same period last year.

It is indicated that net interest income for the first half of the year increased by 46.3% to UAH 4 billion 306.59 million, including in the second quarter the growth amounted to 42.5% to UAH 2 billion 154.61 million.

Meanwhile, net commission income in January-June this year increased by 35.4% to UAH 612.064 million, including in the second quarter – by 55.7% to UAH 290.32 million.

A significant contribution to the improvement of the financial result was made by the reduction of the loss from the reduction of utility in the first half of this year to UAH 314.08 million, while for the same period last year this figure amounted to UAH 3 billion 573.13 million.

Specifically, for the second quarter of 2023, the loss from utility curtailment narrowed to UAH 170.81m compared to UAH 1 billion 364.51m in the second quarter of 2022.

The bank points out that its total profit for the first half of this year reached UAH 3 billion 247.74 million against a loss of UAH 872.35 million for the first half of last year, including a total profit of UAH 1 billion 772.90 million in the second quarter-2023 against a loss of UAH 162.81 million in the second quarter-2022.

According to the report, in January-June this year, the bank’s assets grew by UAH 1.92 billion, reaching UAH 92.93 billion as of June 30.

Such growth is explained by the increase in cash and funds with the NBU from UAH 4.75 billion to UAH 9.67 billion and investments in securities – from UAH 32.85 billion to UAH 37.37 billion, while loans and advances to clients decreased from UAH 29.92 billion to UAH 23.91 billion, and debts of other banks – by UAH 1.2 billion to UAH 20.51 billion.

Customer funds of OTP Bank decreased for the first half of 2023 from UAH 77.73 billion to UAH 76.19 billion, meanwhile the bank’s capital increased from UAH 11.63 billion to UAH 14.87 billion, including retained earnings – from UAH 3.77 billion to UAH 6.62 billion.

OTP Bank, a 100% subsidiary of the Hungarian OTR Bank Plc, was the eighth among 65 Ukrainian banks in terms of total assets (UAH 103.327 billion) at the beginning of June this year. The bank has a network of 72 branches in Ukraine.

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“Dneprometiz” has received UAH 17.2 mln of profit

PJSC “Dniprometiz” (Dnipro) of Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Tihipko following the results of work in January-June this year received a net profit of UAH 17.253 million, while the same period last year ended with a net loss of UAH 12.346 million.

According to the company’s interim report, in the first half of 2023, net income increased by 15.4% to UAH 1 billion 426.222 million.

At the same time, the company’s retained earnings by the end of June 2023 amounted to UAH 257.336 million.

As reported, “Dneprometiz” at the end of January-March of this year received a net profit of UAH 17.581 million, while ended the same period last year with a net loss of UAH 8.645 million. For the first quarter of 2023 net income increased by 54% to UAH 683.802 million.

“Dneprometiz” in 2022 decreased net profit six times compared to the previous year – to 25.572 million UAH, net income increased by 1.1% – to 2 billion 474.397 million UAH.

“Dneprometiz” produces hardware products from low-carbon steels. The capacity of the enterprise is 120 thousand tons of products per year.

According to the NDU data for the first quarter of 2023, T.A.S. Overseas Investments Limited (Cyprus) owns 98.6578% of Dneprometiz shares.

The authorized capital of Dniprometiz PJSC is UAH 83.480 mln, the nominal value of a share is UAH 68.08.

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