Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Deposit Guarantee Fund to start payments to Bank Finance & Credit depositors on Nov 4

The Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund will start payments to the depositors of insolvent Bank Finance and Credit on November 4 through state-controlled Oschadbank, First Ukrainian International Bank, Alfa-Bank (all based in Kyiv) and Bank Pivdennyi (Odesa), the fund said on its website.

According to the report, payments will be made under contracts which expired prior to November 1 on current bank account contracts in the amount of the deposit, including interest accrued on the date the fund started withdrawing the bank from the market, but no more than UAH 200,000.

The fund will make an additional announcement regarding payments to depositors whose contracts will expire after November 1, as well as card account contracts.


As reported, on September 18 the fund introduced temporary administration at Bank Finance and Credit, which the National Bank of Ukraine declared as insolvent on September 17.

Bank Finance and Credit was founded in 1990. Its main beneficiary is the Ukrainian businessman, MP, the majority shareholder and CEO of Ferrexpo mining company, Kostiantyn Zhevaho.

The bank ranked 10th among 127 operating banks in the country by total assets on July 1, 2015 (UAH 38.88 billion), according to the NBU.


Its obligations to individuals as of the date were equal to UAH 16.98 billion, in particular UAH 11.61 billion in foreign currency.

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