In Ukraine at the moment there are 5 Russian banks – 3 large and 2 small. This was announced by Deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Ekaterina Rozhkova.
“Russian banks are now looking for a buyer. We control all their operations. We don’t see the threat there. For them today there are two possible ways: either to find a new owner, or to reduce the volume of Bank presence on our market,” Attila Rozhkova.
Deputy head of the NBU said that in 2014 the assets of Russian banks in Ukraine are reduced.
“They are declining more rapidly than statistically, because in Russian banks, the majority were foreign currency assets. Reduced deposits, banks operate in the constraints, banks are working supervisors. Today banks are not lending – they have debt. Certain state enterprises have loans at these banks are the issues we are discussing with the relevant ministries. In order for this relationship was not these loans must be repaid, or refinance – we are working on this issue,” – said Rozhkov.
Separately Rozhkova noted that banks with Russian capital now to capitalize.
We will remind, earlier the head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva declared that in Ukraine banks with Russian capital there is a bright future.
As reported, Sberbank of Russia still has no plans to enter the Ukrainian market, where a subsidiary of the same name. As noted earlier, the head of Bank Herman Gref, the Bank’s assets in Ukraine “compressed”, but he does not see “the prospects are very quick exit from the market”.
Earlier plans to close the subsidiary BM Bank (Ukraine) said the head of VTB Andrey Kostin. Vnesheconombank is prepared to sell the Ukrainian subsidiary Prominvestbank in the first quarter of 2017, otmechanii VEB Chairman Sergey Gorkov.
