The NBU has fined a bank and five financial companies: the reasons for the sanctions
8 April 15:34
In March 2026, the National Bank of Ukraine imposed sanctions on one bank and five non-bank financial institutions, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
The violations involved:
- prevention of money laundering;
- countering the financing of terrorism;
- prevention of the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;
- foreign exchange legislation.
This was reported by the regulator itself.
Which bank was fined
Credit Agricole Bank was fined 300,000 hryvnias.
The reason was a violation of financial monitoring requirements, specifically:
- failure to comply with the obligation to suspend outgoing financial transactions pursuant to a decision by the authorized body;
- actions that led to the termination of a customer’s bank account agreement, on which funds were frozen in accordance with the law.
The largest fine among financial companies
The heaviest penalty was imposed on FC “Alliance Capital Group”—1 million hryvnias.
The violation concerned currency legislation. The company refused to conduct a currency exchange transaction for a client involving foreign currency banknotes that conformed to official samples and whose authenticity the institution was required to verify using special equipment.
Other sanctions
Several other financial institutions also received fines:
- FC “Hertz” — 612,000 UAH
- violations in the area of financial monitoring,
- inadequate risk-based approach,
- deficiencies in internal procedures and customer verification.
- FC “Tiger Invest” — 400,000 UAH
- violations of currency exchange procedures,
- clients were not provided with foreign currency or settlement documents during transactions.
- PJSC “UFG” — 85,000 UAH
- failure to identify and register a financial transaction subject to financial monitoring,
- failure to notify the authorized body of a threshold transaction.
- UPR LLC — 1,700 UAH
- failure to properly fulfill the obligation to notify the NBU of the deadlines for rectifying identified violations.
