INDUSTRIALBANK National Bank of Ukraine seeks stakes in several banking entities. National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to acquire major stakes in a range of banking companies including Alfa-Bank PJSC (Ukraine), BTA Bank JSC, Public Joint Stock Company Commercial Bank Center (UKR:INDB), Alpari Bank, Public Joint Stock Company Joint Stock Bank Express Bank and Center Bank, according to the website of the regulator. The NBU, as per the website, has also planned to buy a major interest in Alfa-Bank on behalf of the ABH Holdings SA owners - Mikhail Fridman, German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev.
Moreover, the regulator has decided to buy more than 70% of the charter capital in Industrialbank and more than 80% in Express-bank on behalf of the Dvoretskiy family Roza, Anna and Igor, announcing transparency in the ownership structures of the banking companies. The Kazakh citizens planned purchase of 94% (each 47%) stake in BTA has also been approved by the regulator. Bakhtari Khed Ayatollah Musas plan to buy the whole stake of Alpari bank directly has been cleared by the NBU as well.
The NBU has also approved the direct involvement in bank Center for the French national Hamed Alikhani, who owns 60% in the bank indirectly.
