PrivatBank
PrivatBank (Ukrainian: ПриватБанк) is the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, in terms of the number of clients, assets value, loan portfolio and taxes paid to the national budget. PrivatBank has its headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk, in central Ukraine. In March 2014 was named by the American review Global Finance (magazine) as "the Best Bank in Ukraine for 2014" while British magazine "The Banker" in November 2013 named again the same bank as "the Bank of the year 2013 in Ukraine". According to Moody's Investors Service it has the best "Bank Financial Strength Rating" (BFSR) among all others rated banks in Ukraine. On 9 October 2013 Fitch Ratings rated PrivatBank 'A-(ukr)' with stable outlook and affirmed on 14 February 2014. On 13 August 2014 Standard & Poor's raised its rating outlook to 'stable' due to the better liquidity ratio than peers in the Ukrainian banking system.
More than 30 thousand people are employed with the bank system. By the results of banking market survey, conducted by GFK Ukraine, PrivatBank services are used by one out of three Ukrainian banks clients (33.2%), and one out of four (24.9%) uses a wide range of services and considers PrivatBank as his/her main bank.