The most popular Ukrainian banks

PrivatBank

The Commercial bank PrivatBank was founded in 1992. Currently PrivatBank is one of the most dynamically developing Ukrainian banks and occupies leading positions in the national bank rating.

PrivatBank is a leader among the Ukrainian commercial banks for number of clients, its services are used by more than 16% population of Ukraine population.

PrivatBank is a modern universal bank:

Possessing a general license from National Bank of Ukraine for conducting bank transactions, PrivatBank carries a complete spectrum of bank services available in the domestic market for corporate and individual clients, in full accordance with international standards. The long-term interests of their clients are the main priorities of the bank. Their highly skilled team of specialists and personal managers carry the responsibility of providing high-quality services, which are timely and exactly meet all of their customers' demands. Inculcating the new types of banking and constantly perfecting the complex of bank services, PrivatBank currently serves 306 thousand corporate clients and small businesses, and over 9.4 million individual accounts.

PrivatBank is the socially oriented bank:

Successive policy of strengthening the bank's stability and perfection servicing, PrivatBank considers it one of its priorities to develop the complex of hi-tech services to individual clients. At the moment, the bank offers more than 150 types of the most modern services, among which are account servicing, deposit operations, plastic card products, numerous programs on the consumer crediting, partnership projects with leading Ukrainian and foreign companies (media, real-estate, mobile, autoproducers, etc).

The national service network:

The national network of PrivatBank servicing, including 1,902 branches and offices all over Ukraine, allows any client to receive the highest level of banking services virtually anywhere in Ukraine. The wide range of PrivatBank's foreign partners not only demonstrates its position as a competent participant of the world banking system but also, and most importantly, allows it to completely satisfy the necessities of the bank's clients in their international activites.

PrivatBank is the leader in presenting innovative bank services:

PrivatBank is the acknowledged payment cards leader in Ukraine. The bank has issued more than 8.9 million plastic cards (36% of the total number of cards issued by Ukrainian banks). PrivatBank's network of servicing plastic cards comprises 2,703 ATM's, and PrivatBank's cards are accepted by more than 16.6 thousand retail institutions all over Ukraine. The nation wide network of card product services allows PrivatBank to actively inculcate "salary card programs" of payments to employees of the bank's corporate clients.

PrivatBank's Vision:

To be a trusted multipurpose inter-regional  bank of Ukraine, aimed at the interests of clients of all forms of property, and provide a full range of qualitative services in each financial market segment.

PrivatBank's Mission is:

· To achieve and hold the leading positions on the Ukrainian financial market

· To encourage economical development of corporate and welfare growth of private clients on the basis of reciprocal partnership

· To provide a wide range of qualitative bank services

Pravex Bank

The main strategic trend of Pravex Bank development is ensuring of its activity as a multifunctional financial institution, which provides a full range of banking services both to retail and to corporate Client. PRAVEX-BANK has passed the way of public acknowledgement and at the present stage can be proud of its achievements, which allowed «Pravex» brand to become a symbol of reliability and trust. During more than 15 years of work on the Ukrainian banking market, with each year Pravex Bank becomes more available, convenient and closer to all its potential clients and partners both in keeping high standards of service and in its geography. This result is achieved due to creation of the widest net of branches and divisions all over Ukraine and, as a result, has a maximal proximity of banking services to every client. In the bank structure there are more than 595 directorates and outlets, more than 1,500 points of issue of consumer credits located both in Kyiv region and in all regions of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Today we are National Scale Bank.

The Bank's main goals are incensement of depositors servicing level, improvement of clients services, benevolent treatment to every one of them in combine with expert execution of banking operations.

Bank's partners servicing activity basis of PRAVEX-BANK is a combination of individual approach and capability of using any financial tool. Our aim is creation of a system of mutually beneficial relations with banks, which would consider particular features of business of every counteragent and we are ready to grant non-standard conditions and individual cooperation patterns.

Raiffeisen Bank Aval

Raiffeisen Bank Aval Open Joint Stock Company was registered on March 27, 1992 (operated under the brand name of Joint Stock Postal Pension Bank Aval until September 25, 2006). Since October 2005, the Bank has been part of the Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG Group (as of January 1, 2009 the Group held 96.18% of shares in the Bank).

Raiffeisen Bank Aval continues to retain a leadership position among Ukrainian banks, as measured by total assets. The Bank provides a broad range of standard and innovative banking services through its nationwide network which comprised, as of January 1, 2009, a total of 1,134 outlets located in big cities, provincial and community centers and villages throughout Ukraine.

The Bank has an effective management structure, based on a clear division into business lines (corporate, retail, SME and treasury) and supporting verticals (information technologies, operation support, accounts, controlling, security and other) both in the Bank's Head-office and regional directorates. As a truly international bank, Raiffeisen Bank Aval clearly separates front-office functions from back-office ones to achieve higher quality of client service and enhance risk mitigation.

During 2008, Raiffeisen Bank Aval's leading positions were recognized within the frames of numerous ratings and surveys both in Ukraine, and abroad. In particular, during the international festival contest The Choice of the Year the Bank for the third year running was recognized as the best bank and awarded prizes in the nominations Mortgage Program 2008, Deposit Program 2008 and Car Lending Program.

The Delovoy magazine named Raiffeisen Bank Aval the Best Bank for Business (November, 2008).

The Bank for the second year running was also named Ukraine's Best Banking Employer according to a survey commissioned by the Correspondent magazine and conducted by the Gfk Ukraine company.

The reputable UK-based magazine Euromoney awarded Raiffeisen Bank Aval the title of Ukraine's best company in the financial and banking sector of Ukraine in 2008 as part of its Best Companies in CEE rating.

Alfa-Bank

CJSC Alfa-Bank is one of the privately-owned banks in Ukraine that is part of the Alfa Group Consortium. It was registered in Ukraine in January 2001. Alfa-Bank Ukraine operates in all key sectors of the banking sphere, including retail, corporate banking, arrangement and underwriting of corporate bonds and trade finance. The Bank ranks among the country's ten largest banks according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

The Bank offers its services through a network of branches, points of sale, auto loans financing desks and representative offices across Ukraine. By the end of December 2008, the bank had 77 branches, 145 information-consulting centers, 753 points of sales (POS) and a representative office in Moscow.

The Bank's strategic objective is to maintain its position as a leader in Ukraine's corporate banking sector and to develop itself as a leader in the Ukrainian retail and SME financing markets.

Alfa-Bank Ukraine's largest corporate customers are among the Top 100 companies in the country. These companies are active in a variety of sectors, including investment and lease companies, wholesale trade and retail trade, food industry and railways, agriculture, etc. By the end of December 2008, the Bank had more than 3,385 corporate customers, 11,714 SME clients and 661,303 retail banking customers.

AvtoZAZbank

JS "AvtoZAZbank" was registrated in National Bank of Ukraine on 21 October 1991.

JS ”AvtoZAZbank” system has more than 40 subsidiaries and departments in different regions of Ukraine (in Zaporizhya, Simpheropol, Melitopol).

Services of JS AvtoZAZbank for banks-correspondents residents of Ukraine:

· Opening and servicing of correspondent account in hryvna (UAH)

· Opening and servicing of correspondent account in foreign currency

· Money transfer in Ukraine

· International money transfer

JS “AvtoZAZbank” offers its clients (individuals) modern and safe financial instruments for cashless accounting with other individuals and legal entities, as with opening of own current account so without it.   

In 2006 - 2007 the most significant court case, which was also mentioned in “CHAMBERS GLOBAL - 2007”, was the support of the Lukor court dispute against the country's tax authorities for the sum of more than UAH 580 million. At present, support is being provided for a range of investment projects.

In 2008 an operation on sale of JS AvtoZAZbank (Ukraine) to Bank of Cyprus (Cyprus) was completed. At present some projects on significant business corporate restructurings are in progress