By KYIV. Jan 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Citibank, Ukreximbank, Sense Bank (formerly Alfa Bank), PrivatBank and Globus Bank formed the top five government bond traders on the PFTS Stock Exchange (Kyiv) in 2022.
According to its information, four more banks follow them: Raiffeisen, Ukrgasbank, OTP Bank, Bank ¾ and ICU investment group closes the top ten.
The third five was formed by TAScombank, International Investment Bank, Profi-T Securities, Alliance Bank and UkrSibbank.
Finally, Daliz-Finance Fund Company, Credit Dnipro and Vostok banks, MTB Bank and Dominanta Trade rounds out the top twenty.
The PFTS said that in December the volume of trading on the stock exchange increased by 69% compared to November, and the share of government bonds amounted to 99.6%, while 14% of transactions were made on the order-driven market and 86% on the quotes market.
Including 11% of trades fell on foreign currency government bonds ($35.4 million and EUR 4.8 million).
The exchange said that 32 issues of government bonds were traded in December, including 21 issues maturing in 2023 (the turnover with them amounted to UAH 9.4 billion), five issues maturing in 2024 (UAH 0.9 billion), three issues with maturity in 2022 (UAH 0.3 billion) and one issue each maturing in 2025 (UAH 2.4 billion), 2026 UAH 0.03 billion) and 2027 (UAH 0.4 billion).
On the Ukrainian Exchange (UX, Kyiv) in December, with a total trading volume of UAH 1.21 billion, government bonds accounted for 94.61% of the total turnover.
The top five bond traders on the UX were Dragon Capital, PrivatBank, Sense Bank, Sky Bank and Raiffeisen Bank.
They are followed by OTP Bank, Universal Bank (mono), BTS Broker, Business Invest and Spike Invest.
The most popular government bond issue on both exchanges is bonds maturing on February 26, 2025, followed by bonds maturing on April 19, 2023. As the ICU investment group said earlier, the interest in the latter is due to the fact that their maturity date is the closest after the opening of the opportunity for nonresidents to repatriate their own investments from Ukraine.
