BNP Paribas is a multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris. It was founded in 2000 from the merger of two of France's foremost financial institutions, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. It also incorporates many other major institutions from successive mergers and acquisitions, including Fortis Group in Belgium, Direkt Anlage Bank in Germany, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Italy, Banque Générale du Luxembourg in Luxembourg, and Türk Ekonomi Bankası in Turkey. The Group has also been present in the United States through its subsidiaries Bank of the West until 2023 and First Hawaiian Bank until 2019. With 190,000 employees, the bank is organized into three major business areas: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS); Investment & Protection Services (IPS); and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).
BNP Paribas Fortis is an international bank based in Belgium and a subsidiary of French banking group BNP Paribas. The bank was created in May 2009 after BNP Paribas acquired 75% of the Belgian Fortis Bank from the Federal Participation and Investment Company. It was formerly, together with Fortis Bank Nederland, the banking arm of the financial institution Fortis. After the ultimately unsuccessful ABN-AMRO takeover, the subprime crisis and subsequent global financial crisis (GFC) led to the sale of the Dutch and Luxembourg parts of the banking branch to the Dutch and Luxembourg governments. Fortis Bank itself was first partly bought by the Belgian government, then fully purchased by the government and sold to BNP Paribas.
Pravex Bank is a private commercial bank based in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Founded by Leonid Chernovetsky, it was licensed by the National Bank of Ukraine in 1992.
Ukrtelecom JSC is Ukraine's monopolist telephone company, also active in the ISP and mobile markets. The company was governed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Ukraine with 92.9% shares belonging to the government until Austrian investment firm EPIC bought a 92.79 percent stake from the Ukrainian government for $1.3 billion. This stake was resold to System Capital Management of Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
RwS bank is a Ukrainian bank founded in 1991 in Kyiv. It provides different services such as loans, deposits, purchase and sale of bank metals, etc. The central office is located in Kyiv. It was previously owned by Swedbank Group and operated in 2007–2013 as Swedbank (Ukraine).
Bank Millennium S.A. is a Poland-based commercial bank with headquarters in Warsaw, and owned by the Portuguese bank Millennium BCP. It is one of the largest banks in Poland and has been operating for 32 years. In 2018, it was the 7th bank in Poland in terms of asset value.
Public Join-Stock Company First Investment Bank, commonly known as PJSC First Investment Bank is the Ukrainian bank that offers a full range of banking services to private and corporate customers. The bank was registered on 20 June 1997 with its headquarters at 6 Moskovskiy Avenue, Kyiv. There are over 30 branches in 11 regions of Ukraine.
Kapital Bank is a commercial bank operating in Azerbaijan. Founded in 1874 as Azerbaijan Savings Bank, it is headquartered in Baku.
Bank Forum was a Ukrainian bank headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1994, the bank was acquired by Smart Holding in 2012.
Postbank, legally known as Eurobank Bulgaria AD, is a universal bank in Bulgaria.
TransCapitalBank is a Russian commercial bank with a share of foreign capital which includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), German Investment Company DEG and International Finance Corporation (IFC). Headquartered in Moscow, Transcapitalbank operates in more than 18 regions, providing financial services to 30,000 corporate customers and over 212,000 retail clients. Transcapitalbank is a top 50 bank in Russia by assets and by equity. The bank is also ranked #7 by lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Transcapitalbank is a full-service bank.
Unionbank was a major Bulgarian retail and commercial bank with headquarters in Sofia.
Maxime Jadot is a Belgian banker who is currently Chairman of BNP Paribas Fortis. He studied law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Georgetown University in the United States.
KredoBank (Ukrainian: АТ "Кредобанк") is a bank headquartered in Lviv in Ukraine, originally established in 1990 as West-Ukrainian Commercial Bank and known as Kredyt Bank (Ukraine) from 2002 to 2005. In early 2024, it was confirmed by the National Bank of Ukraine as one of the country's systemically important banks. It is also the largest Polish-controlled bank in Ukraine, and has been majority-owned by Polish banks since 2000, first Kredyt Bank and then PKO Bank Polski. As of 2021, the latter owned all of KredoBank's equity capital.
Ukreximbank is a significant public bank in Ukraine, 100% of whose shares are owned by the state represented by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. It was established by the Government of Ukraine in 1992 to implement state policies in the fields of industry, foreign trade, economy, and finance. In early 2024, it was confirmed by the National Bank of Ukraine as one of the country's systemically important banks.
Mykola Lahun — is the Ukrainian businessman. He was the majority shareholder and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JSC Delta Bank, which declared insolvent on 2 March 2015.
Dhruba Narayan Ghosh was an Indian career bureaucrat and civil servant who served as the twelfth Chairman of State Bank of India. He was also the founder and first chairman of the ICRA Limited.
Vitaliy Romanchukevych is a Ukrainian banker, economist who is chairman of the Board of JSC European Industrial Bank, First vice president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB) and the judge of the Arbitration Court of AUB. He previously worked at the National Bank of Ukraine for more than 10 years.
Vladymyr Lavrenchuk is a Ukrainian banker and top manager. Regional director of NEQSOL Holding Ukraine (2021–present), CEO of Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine (2005–2019), CEO of Ukrinbank (1997–2002).
Andriy Volkov is a Ukrainian financier, the founder and partner of the Investohills group of companies, co-founder of the international fund Investohills Helianthus, former member of the Board of Alfa-Bank.
