Depositors have already received more than 50% of the total guaranteed amount.
At the beginning of the war it was decided to liquidate immediately two banks with Russian capital – MR Bank and Prominvestbank. Because of this, there were risks of a repeat of the bankruptcy, but the minds of Ukrainians and confidence in the system won. This was stated by Svitlana Recruit, Managing Director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals in the NP column.
payment of guaranteed compensation to their depositors. After all, this was an indicator of the ability of the guarantee system to respond to challenges. How difficult it was (in the face of the bombing of the capital, limited access to the central offices of these banks and the need to evacuate employees of the Fund from the hottest points in the suburbs of Kiev at the time) I will leave in parentheses. It was difficult for everyone. But the Fund has finally started paying guaranteed compensation to depositors of these banks even earlier than the statutory deadline. To date, depositors have received more than 50% of the total guaranteed amount – more than 570 million UAH, “she said.
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It will be recalled that about two thirds of Ukrainian banks report an increase in deposits of Ukrainian citizens. And this despite the fact that the size of the deposit rate since the beginning of the war in Ukraine has been declining by about 1% every month. At the same time, banks themselves now simply do not need depositors' money, as they have almost nowhere to invest, writes in his article for ZN.UA “ Deposits in wartime: why deposits in banks continue to grow, despite meager rates ” Artur Fedorchuk.
