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• ensuring the NBU functions pertaining to registration and licensing of banks, non-bank financial institutions, and other entities, performing licensing, approval, and registration activities on the payment market, including the following:
  • approval of the bank’s charters and amendments thereto related to the change of the amount of the authorized capital, licensing of banking activities, performing approval actions regarding top managers, certain categories of bank employees, key persons, and owners of banks, individuals and legal persons that have or intend to acquire a qualifying holding in banks, assessment of the bank ownership structure, keeping the State Register of Banks 
  • authorizing the establishing of subsidiary banks, bank branches and representative offices in other countries
  • accreditation of foreign banks’ branches and representative offices in Ukraine
  • authorizing the activities on financial services provision, including issuance and change of type/scope of licenses for performing insurance activities, operation of credit unions, financial companies, pawnshops, performing foreign exchange transactions in terms of trading in currency valuables in cash, performing approval actions regarding top managers and key persons of financial services providers, assessment of the ownership structure of financial services providers 
  • keeping the State Register of Financial Institutions, Payment Infrastructure Register, and in the cases established in regulations – other registers/lists of entities subject to state regulation and supervision by the NBU
  • licensing the operation of the Export Credit Agency
  • registering debt collection agencies
  • issuing licenses to conduct foreign exchange transactions for non-bank institutions
  • authorizing the activities of financial payment services providers, limited payment services providers in the payment market, performing other licensing, approval, and registration activities for the participants of the payment market, their top managers, owners, regarding their ownership structures
  • preliminarily evaluating the entities qualifying for participation in a withdrawal of insolvent banks from the market
  • assessing the compliance of the entities that intend to obtain the NBU certificate for the right to perform as a temporary administrator at a non-bank financial institution with the qualification requirements
  • authorizing the entities eligible to conduct actuarial activities in the insurance sector and entities eligible to perform duties of a responsible actuary 
  • issuing licenses to legal persons to conduct cash transactions and changing the volume thereof.