Ukrsotsbank : position on the NBU’s scheduled audit results

During the period from 14 February 2018 to 8 May 2018, a scheduled audit of Ukrsotsbank on certain issues related to financial monitoring and foreign exchange legislation was carried out by the National Bank of Ukraine.

The audit was carried out with respect to the period of the bank's operation from 2015 to 2017, while over the period from 2015 to October 2016, the bank operated under the control of its previous shareholder, the international banking group UniCredit Group.

Ukrsotsbank strongly disagrees with the charges of conducting risk-related activities. All cases of risk-related transactions were revealed by the bank independently well before the audit by the National Bank of Ukraine. In most cases, customers have been denied servicing in compliance with Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine 'On Prevention and Counteraction to Legalization (Laundering) of the Proceeds from Crime or Terrorism Financing, as well as Financing Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction'.

Since the National Bank of Ukraine did not take into account the explanations and objections of the bank in rendering its decision based on results of the audit, the bank would contest the regulator's decision in court.

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Ukrsotsbank is one of the largest universal banks of Ukraine, operating in the local market since 1990. The bank offers full range of services to individuals and corporate clients.

The renovated Ukrsotsbank emerged on 31 October 2016 as a result of strategic deal whereby 99.9% of Ukrsotsbank shares have been transferred from UniCredit Group to ABH Holdings S.A. (АВНН) in exchange for a minority 9.9% stake in ABHH. Thus, the bank has combined 26-year-old traditions of Ukrsotsbank's client-centric attitude, European quality of service inherent to UniCredit, as well as international banking expertise of ABHH in a number of European countries including CIS. Thanks to the successful synthesis and synergy of the two assets of ABHH in Ukraine, Ukrsotsbank and Alfa-Bank, the banking market of Ukraine will see the rise of a new stronger financial institution. This, in turn, will spur up technological advance, increase efficiency, improve quality of service for the clients, reduce cost of banking services whereas their range will inevitably expand.

The extensive retail network of Ukrsotsbank consists of 237 branches, its headcount reaching nearly 5 thousand employees.

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