The National Bank will not close non-bank exchange offices.

exchangeThe National Bank of Ukraine intends to tighten requirements for financial companies engaged in currency exchange. However, this does not include closing non-bank exchange offices. According to insider sources, the idea was rejected in parliament. Previously, the NBU believed that the closure of more than a thousand non-bank exchange offices would go unnoticed, since, according to the regulator, they constitute only 1% of the total market. Therefore, parliamentarians were asked to pass a law to close such institutions.

However, in March of this year, deputies from Samopomich, Alexander Danchenko, and the People's Front, Valeriy Babenko and Valeriy Lukyanchuk, who are members of the Committee on Information Technology and Communications, appealed to the head of the Committee on Financial Policy and Banking Activities, Sergei Rybalka, asking him to reject the decision.

Overall, officials believe that the problem with the currency market lies not in the non-bank exchangers, but in the existence of "black" exchangers operating without a license.

For its part, the NBU claims that it did not issue a single license for such activities in 2014-2015, as it plans to resolve the issue by the end of this year. Meanwhile, according to former NBU employee Leonid Antonenko, many attempted to obtain licenses, but none were issued.

SKELET-info

 

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