Contents tagged with Russian banks
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Russian Alfa-Bank refuses to leave Ukraine
According to the co-owner of one of the biggest private banks, Petr Aven, Russian Alfa-Bank is not going to sell their business in Ukraine. “We have not made a decision [to sell our Ukrainian business] yet. We’ve decided to work there. We are not a state bank,” he said during a television interview on channel Russia 24, RIA Novosti reports.
Even so, Aven professes that it is difficult for Alfa-Bank to work in Ukraine. "We have had 80 attacks on different bank branches in different cities in …
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The Deputy Head of the National Bank of Ukraine said Russian banks have no future in Ukraine
Banks that are partly owned by Russia should be able to “calmly and without panic” withdraw from the Ukrainian market where they have no future, the Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Katerina Rozhkova said in an interview with Minfin web site.
“There is no development for Russian banks here. This should be clear to everyone. On the other hand, as a regulator, we believe that the exit from the market should be civilized. No one should get bricked. Let the banks have the …
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All Ukrainian banks owned by Russia put up for sale
During a broadcast on the Inter TV channel, Acting Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Kateryna Rozhkova reported that all the banks with state-owned Russian capital in Ukraine have been put up for sale.
"We know for certain that all banks with state-owned Russian capital that are currently operating in Ukraine are negotiating a potential sale. As a regulator of the banking market, we believe that this is the best way to leave the Ukrainian market, as in today’s conditions it is …
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Ukraine introduces sanctions against Russian banks
On March 16 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine to adopt sanctions with respect to a number of legal entities. Ukraine will soon adopt sanctions for a year on five banks with Russian capital: Sberbank, VS Bank, Prominvestbank, VTB Bank, and BM Bank. The goal of the sanctions is to prevent them from withdrawing this capital from Ukraine in favor of entities related to them.
The media outlet 24tv.ua reports that …