By KYIV. Jan 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The ICU Financial Group has integrated its government bond trading platform ICU Trade with the government-managed Diia application.
"In Diia, ICU will offer war bonds with rates ranging from 11.5% to 19% per annum in hryvnias, depending on their availability on the market," the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
According to Diia, seven issues of war bonds are currently offered for sale with maturities from March 1, 2023 (Kherson) to March 13, 2024 (Sevastopol), and they can also be bought through one of four intermediaries – Sense Bank (formerly Alfa-Bank), Ukrgasbank, bond.ua and ICU.
For each of the issues there are from one (Mariupol – Sense Bank, Berdiansk – ICU) to four sellers (Donetsk).
The most active sellers are Sense Bank and ICU with five issues, followed by Ukrgasbank with four.
ICU said that it is still possible to work with government securities through ICU Trade, which also contains not only war, but also other government bonds, as well as through options for early sale, analytics, and obtaining additional documents.
The group said that the Ukrainian IT company Auxility helped implement the technical integration of ICU Trade into Diia.
The ICU Group is an independent financial group providing brokerage, asset management and private equity services. The group also engages in venture capital investments. The geography of ICU interests is emerging markets all over the world. The group manages over $500 million in assets. The group is said to be the largest government bond broker in Ukraine over the past decade.
ICU co-owners are Makar Paseniuk and Kostiantyn Stetsenko.
