Public Joint Stock Company "BANK FORUM" is a commercial bank headquarted in Kyiv, Ukraine offering a range of banking services through a network of branches and operational offices. "BANK FORUM" is one of the largest banks of Ukraine. The major shareholder of PJSC "BANK FORUM" is Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG.
Since its foundation in 1994 Bank Forum proved to be a powerful financial and credit institution, a reliable and stable partner that is consistent with the most contemporary standards of service, enjoying full confidence of its clients in Ukraine and abroad.
Bank Forum is a universal bank which renders full range of banking services of the European level, finds an individual approach to each client and adheres to flexibility and efficiency in decision-making. Principal activities of PJSC "BANK FORUM" are corporate banking and individual (retail) banking. We offer banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises («SMEs») as part of our corporate banking business.
Bank Forum offers its services via a network of branches and smaller outlets extending throughout Ukraine. The Bank’s branches and outlets (operational offices) offer a wide range of banking services including lending, documentary transactions, securities operations, foreign currency transactions, settlement and payment transactions and international payment cards operations.
Branches offer the full range of the Bank’s services to retail and corporate customers. Each branch has its own lending limits and decision making bodies which are customarily established within a year of establishment of the relevant branch. Outlet is smaller than a branch and may not offer the full range of the Bank’s services. All outlets offer current and savings accounts and foreign exchange. However, only the larger outlets offer loan facilities, with limits set by the relevant branch or the Bank’s Head Office.
Bank Forum is expanding its network in all regions and cities of Ukraine (including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Vinnytsia, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Kherson, Poltava, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, and Uzhhorod).
Shareholders
The major shareholder of PJSC "BANK FORUM" is Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG, the stake of which in the authorized capital of Bank Forum constitutes 89,25%. In its turn, Commerzbank Auslandsbanken Holding AG is a 100% subsidiary company of Commerzbank AG that helps Commerzbank AG to control Bank Forum completely.
The total number of Bank Forum’s shareholders is growing constantly and as of March 4, 2010 it exceeds 400. As of March 1, 2010 the registered authorized capital of Bank Forum constitutes UAH 2,259 billion. The total number of Bank Forum’s registered shares – 225 958 096. The nominal value per share – UAH 10.00.
Key Figures
(as of June 1, 2010)
| Employees | 3 836 |
|---|---|
| Branches | 20 |
| Outlets | 232 |
| Correspondent banks | 48 |
| Shareholders | over 550 |
| Authorized capital | UAH 2 260 million |
| Net assets | UAH 17 270 million |
| Total assets | UAH 22 083 million |
Licences
Banks interact most often with the following government and regulatory bodies in Ukraine:
- The National Bank of Ukraine
- The State Securities and Stock Markets Commission
- The tax authorities
The banking licence of PJSC "BANK FORUM" permits to perform a complete range of banking operations overseen by the Ukrainian legislation. Bank Forum also holds licences to carry out security issuance, distribution, trading and broking activities on the Ukrainian stock market; and is licenced to deal in precious metals.
Commerzbank in brief:
Commerzbank is the second largest credit institution in Germany, and one of Europe’s major banks. With the merging of Dresdner Bank into Commerzbank in May 2009, Commerzbank is now additionally one of the leading banks for private and corporate customers in Germany. The new Commerzbank has a total of more than 14 million private and corporate customers worldwide.
Commerzbank sees its role as being that of an expert provider of services to private and business customers and to SMEs. Commerzbank will have around 1,200 branches, holding one of the densest branch networks in Germany. Customers will benefit from an even more extensive and attractive range of products and advisory services. With its clear commitment to the German market, Commerzbank is now an even stronger partner for the long term, combining the expertise of two institutions under one roof.
Today some 30% of German foreign trade is channelled through the new Commerzbank, the leading export financier for the German industry. The bank is directly represented in more than 60 countries in all major economic and financial centers as well as through a network of more than 6,000 banking relationships worldwide.
In Central and Eastern Europe Commerzbank is well positioned with more than 3.5 million customers and a presence in 12 countries of the region. In Poland the bank holds a 70% stake in BRE Bank, Poland’s third-largest financial institution.
For more information please refer to the link below:
www.commerzbank.de