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Cypriot Trail of Horokhovsky’s Monobank: Transformations and Changes of Ownership of the Developer Company Fintech Band
The colorful history of monobank: from “Khimstal” to offshore companies.
The bank’s technology developer and operator is Fintech Band, owned by Fintech Band LLC. The company is fully responsible for the technological infrastructure, development, and technical support of the app. monobank operates under the banking license of JSC Universal Bank, whose owner is Serhiy Tihipko.
The company was originally registered in 2003 under the name “Khimstal-M,” and at first it had nothing to do with financial technologies. In the early stage the founders were Andriy and Tetiana Salnyky. Later the owners became Viktoriia Davydenko and Oleg Osaulenko. In 2012–2016 years control of the firm passed to the Hebert family (Andriy and Mariia Hebert). The authorized capital was insignificant — from 18,5 thousand UAH to a few million, and the legal address constantly changed within Dnipro.
In 2017 there was a radical change. In January the company was renamed Fintech Band, and the authorized capital was increased in several steps — first to 60 million UAH, then to 120 million and finally to 250 million UAH. The new founders became:
- Oleg Horokhovsky - Dmytro Dubilet - Oleksandr Dubilet - Vadym Kovalov - Mykhailo Rohalskyi - Volodymyr Yatsenko - Yevheniia Kryvenko (Yatsenko’s common-law wife) - Liudmyla Shmalchenko
In 2020–2021 years there was an optimization of the ownership structure and some founders exited. On 17 January 2020 the authorized capital was reduced from 38 million UAH to 1 million UAH.
In March 2021 Lyudmyla Shmalchenko and Volodymyr Yatsenko were removed from the list of founders. Instead, Daria Bukrieieva (likely a relative of Shmalchenko) joined the list. The company also changed its address to Sicheslavska Naberezhna St., 47, office 1.
Since 2024 a Cypriot company, Crestline Limited, appeared among the founders. In 2025 a major restructuring took place: another Cypriot company, Nisets Limited, was added to the founders, and Oleksandr Dubilet and Vadym Kovalov were completely removed from the list.
In 2026 the consolidation of control through the Cypriot structures continued: on 25 February Nisets Limited was removed from the founders. Notably, both Cypriot companies — Crestline and Nisets — were registered in the same building, which is associated with Horokhovsky and Rohalskyi.
Cypriot firms Oakworth Limited and Fernly Limited also joined the founders of the payment and technology subsidiaries (the latter has already been liquidated in Cyprus, but it still appears in Ukrainian registers as of 2025). Both structures are controlled by Horokhovsky.
Thus, we see how the bank shed “toxic” individuals who re-registered shares to others while preserving indirect control, and also moved part of the Ukrainian capital out through offshore companies.
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