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The company announced its intention to buy 100% of the bank’s shares.
LLC NovaPay Invest, created by the co-owners of the Nova group and Nova Post offices Vyacheslav Klimov and Volodymyr Popereshnyuk together with the chairman of the supervisory board Taras Kyrychenko, announced its intention to acquire 100% of BTA Bank’s shares. This will be the next step in Nova group’s plans to expand its business in the financial sector. This is reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
The company addressed the National Securities and Stock Market Commission and BTA Bank with a proposal to acquire 20 million ordinary registered shares, which make up 100% of the bank’s total ordinary shares. Currently NovaPay Invest and its affiliated persons do not own shares of BTA Bank.
As a reminder, the Nova group first announced plans to enter the banking market in March 2026. In June, Nova signed a memorandum with BTA Bank on further acquisition of the institution and the creation on its basis of a financial inclusion bank. At the same time, the company applied to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to determine the procedure for acquiring control over the bank.
Acquiring BTA Bank could become a way for Nova to obtain a ready-made banking license and develop its own banking direction.
At the beginning of 2026 year 100% of BTA Bank’s shares belonged to Kazakh citizen Kenes Rakishev. According to the NBU, as of 1 September, BTA Bank ranked last, 59-th, place among banks in Ukraine by total assets. They amounted to 338,49 million UAH. In January–August 2026 year, the bank earned 1 million UAH of profit.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian banking system is one of the most attractive to foreign investors. They are primarily attracted by the sector’s stability, profitability, regulation approaching EU norms, and the ability to enter the market quickly.
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