The National Bank of Ukraine has selected banks to participate in the FX intervention to be conducted in the form of a Request for best quotation that will be first launched by the regulator in Q4 2016.
This new type of FX interventions is introduced by the NBU Foreign Exchange Market Intervention Strategy for 2016-2020 and NBU Board Resolution No. 397, dated 28 October 2016 On Amendments to Some NBU Regulations.
The NBU selects banks eligible to participate in these currency interventions based on the single and transparent criterion regarding volumes of FX purchase and sale transactions with other interbank market participants and the NBU. Each quarter the NBU will select 20 banks that have performed the largest volumes of FX purchase and sale transactions in the previous quarter.
This criterion has been applied to select 20 banks eligible to participate in the FX intervention. These banks performed the largest volumes of FX purchase and sale transactions with other interbank market participants and the NBU in Q3 2016.
Banks qualified to participate in the FX intervention include:
- ALFA-BANK PJSC
- Bank 3/4 PJSC
- BANK ALLIANCE PJSC
- BANK FOR INVESTMENTS AND SAVINGS PJSC
- CB GLOBUS BANK PJSC
- Diamantbank PJSC
- Credit Agricole Bank PJSC
- OTP Bank JSC
- Oshchadbank JSC
- Pivdennyi JSB
- CB PRIVATBANK PJSC
- PROMINVESTBANK PJSC
- Platinum Bank PJSC
- FUIB PJSC
- RAIFFEISEN BANK AVAL JSC
- SBERBANK PJSC
- CITIBANK PJSC
- Ukreksimbank JSC
- UKRSIBBANK JSС
The intervention in the form of a request for best quotation shall be performed as follows: First, the NBU requests banks to quote buying and selling prices for foreign currency through Bloomberg and Reuters trading information systems. After receiving bids from banks, the NBU enters into an agreement with the bank that has quoted the best price.
Under the Foreign Exchange Market Intervention Strategy for 2016-2020, the NBU shall conduct four types of FX interventions:
- FX auction,
- single exchange rate intervention,
- request for best quotation,
- targeted intervention.
With the launch FX interventions in the form of a request for best quotation, the NBU will continue to conduct FX interventions in the form of FX auctions to which all interbank market participants will have equal access.