NBU declared Ukrinbank insolvent / Photo from UNIAN

According to the regulator’s website, the board NBU passed the regulation on December 24.

The NBU says, the majority of Ukrinbank’s deposits are subject to full compensation by the Individual Deposit Guarantee Fund. 53,000 depositors (or 95.5%) are to receive compensations totaling more than UAH 1.9 billion.

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60 banks were found insolvent during the cleansing process in 2014 and 2015.

UNIAN memo. Ukrinbank was the first commercial bank in the territory of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, licensed directly from Moscow by Mikhail Gorbachev. As of December 21, 2015, the major shareholders are Volodymyr Klymenko (66.99%) and Oleksiy Morozov (10%).