National Bank is willing to complicate the access of banks to work with foreign currency. The regulator issued a draft of amendments to the On the procedure for granting banking licenses to banks, the written authorizations and licenses to perform certain operations, which wants to oblige the banks to carry out currency exchange operations in the box office, points of exchange and agency networks have not only a banking license and written permission NBU, which is a general license to conduct foreign exchange operations.
To obtain permission NBU banks will need to have regulatory capital equivalent to at least 10 million euros (at current official exchange rate - 106.96 million UAH) and the exchange of skilled professionals. These same conditions are provided for currency trading on the Ukrainian and international markets. Thus, the National Bank intends to strengthen monetary control over the work of banks.
Banks with capital less than 10 million euros will not be able to buy and sell currencies. While there are thousands of relatively fair way to do this - said the executive director of the National Bank of Ukraine on Banking Supervision Basil Pasichnyk by refusing to name at least one of them.
initiative of the regulator may extend to one third of the market. According to the National Bank on April 1 in the Ukraine worked 76 banks that own (closest to regulatory) capital that was less than 10 million euros. Bankers shocked proposal NBU.
The National Bank of deliberately creating problems to banks from regulatory capital below 10 million euros, - said President of the Association of Ukrainian Banks Oleksandr Sugonyako .- This is a crime, do not think they will go for it, because it will be the reaction of banks. Click to continue »