State-controlled Oschadbank (Kyiv) has attracted credit resources from the German-Ukrainian Fund (GUF) in the amount of EUR 8 million and UAH 50 million to finance micro, small and medium-sized businesses. According to a bank press release, the parties signed the relevant credit agreements within the framework of the memorandum on strategic partnership and cooperation on…
The process of inventory of two troubled commercial banks – Tajprombank (Tajik Joint-Stock Commercial Industrial Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and Fononbank – is going on and special administrators appointed by the court say the banks have enough assets to settle with their customers. The banks began paying out savings starting from March 16. The…
Once the sale of Sberbank of Russia’s subsidiary in Ukraine is closed, the bank will be renamed Norvik Banka. “The bank will be renamed. By all appearances, its name will be Norvik Banka, because it will be a subsidiary of European bank Norvik Banka,” Russian-born businessman Grigory Guselnikov said. The change in the bank’s brand…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed Ayten Rustamova the bank’s new head of office in Tajikistan, said the message on EBRD’s website. Ayten Rustamova will be based in Dushanbe, where she replaces Richard Jones who has returned to EBRD London headquarters. The EBRD also has a second office in the country,…
Belarusian banks demonstrate an increasing interest in the exchange market of deposit auctions, Andrei Aukhimenya, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange (BCSE), reported. The Chairman of the Board said: “Last week we launched the exchange market of deposit auctions. Several days of active trading demonstrated that banks were now fighting…
First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) finished 2016 with a net profit of 367 million UAH. At the same time, bank’s operating profit amounted to 1.8 billion UAH. The bank reduced allocations to reserves more than 3.5-fold, from 4.8 billion UAH in 2015 to 1.3 billion UAH in 2016. According to the results of 2016, FUIB’s…
State-run PrivatBank plans to expand cooperation with the government in providing some social services on the basis of Privat24 platform, PrivatBank Head Oleksandr Shlapak has said. “PrivatBank today is a leader of the so-called ‘digital banking.’ For many years we have been providing services that no country provides. We are trying to convince the government…