Decapitalization of financial sector: consequences for the economy of Ukraine
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irk-123456789-1435242018-11-05T01:22:49Z Decapitalization of financial sector: consequences for the economy of Ukraine Zymovets, V.V. Shelud`ko, N.M. Макроекономічні та регіональні проблеми розвитку промисловості The paper reveals the conceptual basis of decapitalization of the financial sector as a phenomenon, generated by both objective and subjective factors: fundamental causes of decapitalization of the financial sector may be due to deteriorating financial conditions of borrowers and issuers and capital losses in other sectors, resulting in negative values of net savings at macro level; in the case of reduction of the rate of net savings or its negative value (with unavailability of external financing) economic system undergoes local or total decapitalization, which expands to all sectors.The authors indicated, that the forms and methods of decapitalization of the financial sector were determined by the type of financial institution, and by the special nature of financial relations with other sectors and the related structure of assets and liabilities.The concept of "decapitalization of the financial sector" is justified as absolute reduction of the nominal amounts of equity and equity equivalent for the financial institutions of all types less the capital of the central bank. This interpretation requires a balance approach and allows evaluating the extent of decapitalization nominally, taking no account of money depreciation due to inflation. It is established, that decapitalization of the financial sector in Ukraine in 2014-2016 acquired the following main forms: a decrease in equity due to depreciation of debt-based financial instruments; a decrease in equity due to the depreciation of equity-debt financial instruments; a reduction of capital in connection with the termination of financial institutions;The authors argued, that the fundamental reason of decapitalization of the banking sector were interrelated trends of depreciation and liquidity shortage, associated with the loss, by part of the banks, of their ability to fulfill obligations to depositors and creditors.It is shown, that the main reasons of the decapitalization of the Private Pension Funds were the rapid reduction of pension contributions as a result of the poor financial state of the real sector companies, that fund programs of supplementary pension probision, as well as losses due to the depreciation of the stocks portfolios and banks` insolvency .It was found, that the determining factors of the decapitalization of the insurance companies were the reduction of their registered authorized capital due to reduction of the number of licensed insurance companies, deteriorating financial performance (due to lower demand for insurance services, caused by the overall economic downturn), depreciation of financial assets (shares) and the loss of funds in insolvent banks, which led to increased number of loss-making insurance companies;It was shown, that the main causes of the decapitalization of the Collective Investment Institutions (CII), operating on market principles, were the withdrawal of capital by participants of open-type CII, which coincided in time with the banking panic (early 2014), depreciation of financial assets and loss of funds in insolvent banks, suspention of the circulation of the issuers' securities on some territories (in the Crimea and in the ATO area).The authors defined the quantitative (nominal) amount of the decapitalization of thefinancial sector in Ukraine by segments. It was found, that the main negative effects of the decapitalization of the financial sector of Ukraine during 2014-2016 were the following: lack of equity to restore confidence in financial institutions, the decline in the debt financing of the real economy, higher interest rates due to the growing shortage of free financial resources on the domestic market and the failure of the financial sector to increase theirs propositions.The authors provided an assessment of the consequences of decapitalization of the financial sector for Ukrainian economy. It was emphasized, that the lack of capital in financial institutions would remain one of the main obstacles to the recovery in equity and debt financing in the real economy, which would complicate the launch of market mechanisms of economic recovery in Ukraine. У статті висвітлено концептуальні основи декапіталізації фінансового сектору як явища, сформованого як об'єктивними, так і суб'єктивними чинниками. Основними причинами декапіталізації фінансового сектору можуть бути погіршення фінансового стану позичальників та емітентів, дефіцит капіталу в інших секторах, що призводить до негативних значень норми чистих заощаджень на макрорівні. У випадку зниження норми чистих заощаджень або їх негативного значення (за відсутності зовнішнього фінансування) економічна система проходить локальну або повну декапіталізацію, яка поширюється на всі сектори.Автори вказують на те, що форми та способи декапіталізації фінансового сектору визначаються типом фінансової установи, особливостями фінансових відносин з іншими секторами та пов'язаною з цим структурою активів та зобов'язань.Обґрунтовано поняття "декапіталізація фінансового сектору" як абсолютне зниження номінальних обсягів власного та прирівняних до нього капіталу фінансових інститутів усіх типів без урахування капіталу центрального банку країни. При дослідженні декапіталізаціїзастосовувався винятково балансовий підхід і розглядалася лише номінальна декапіталізація, без урахування знецінення грошей у часі через інфляцію.Встановлено, що декапіталізація фінансового сектору в Україні у 2014 - 2016 рр. мала такі основні форми: зменшення власного капіталу внаслідок знецінення боргових фінансових інструментів; зменшення власного капіталу внаслідок знецінення пайових фінансових інструментів зменшення капіталу у зв'язку із припиненням діяльності фінансових інститутів.Автори стверджують, що основною причиною депапіталізації банківського сектора були взаємозв'язані тенденції знецінення активів і дефіциту ліквідності.Показано, що основними причинами декапіталізації приватних пенсійних фондів стали різке скорочення надходжень пенсійних внесків через погіршення фінансового стану компаній реального сектору, які фінансують програми недержавного пенсійного забезпечення, а також збиткова діяльність, зумовлена знеціненням портфелів акцій та втратами коштів у непластопроможних банках.Визначено, що визначальними факторами декапіталізації страхових компаній були зменшення зареєстрованого статутного капіталу у зв'язку зі скороченням кількості ліцензованих страхових компаній, погіршення фінансових результатів діяльності у зв'язку зі зниженням попиту на страхові послуги, зумовленим загальноекономічним спадом, знецінення фінансових активів (акцій) і втрата коштів у неплатоспроможних банках, що призвело до зростання кількості збиткових страхових компаній.Показано, що основними причинами декапіталізації інститутів спільного інвестування (ІСІ) були вилучення капіталу учасниками з ІСІ відкритого типу, яке співпало у часі з банківською панікою (початок 2014 р.); знецінення фінансових активів і втрата коштів у неплатоспроможних банках; призупинення обігу цінних паперів емітентів, розташованих на окупованих територіях (в АРК та у зоні АТО)Автори визначають кількісну (номінальну) суму декапіталізації фінансового сектора в Україні за сегментами. Виявлено, що основними негативними наслідками декапіталізації фінансового сектору України протягом 2014-2016 рр. стали: недостатність власного капіталу для відновлення довіри до фінансових інститутів, скорочення обсягів боргового фінансування компаній реальної економіки, підвищення рівня відсоткових ставок через дефіцит вільних фінансових ресурсів на внутрішньому ринку і неспроможністю фінансового сектора збільшити їх пропозицію.Автори надають оцінку наслідків декапіталізації фінансового сектору для економіки України. Підкреслюється, що дефіцит капіталу фінансових інститутів залишатиметься однією із основних перешкод для відновлення обсягів боргового та пайового фінансування реального сектора економіки, що утруднить запуск ринкових механізмів економічного пожвавлення в в Україні. В статье раскрываются концептуальные основы декапитализации финансового сектора как явления, порожденного как объективными, так и субъективными факторами. Фундаментальными причинами декапитализации финансового сектора могут быть ухудшение финансового состояния заемщиков и эмитентов, дефицит капитала в других секторах, приводящие к отрицательным значениям чистых сбережений на макроуровне. В случае сокращения нормы чистых сбережений или ее отрицательного значения (при отсутствии внешнего финансирования) экономическая система подвергается частичной или полной декапитализации, которая распространяется на все секторы.Авторы указывают, что формы и методы декапитализации финансового сектора определяются типом финансового института, а также особым характером финансовых отношений с другими секторами и соответствующей структурой активов и обязательств.Обоснован концепт «декапитализация финансового сектора» как абсолютного сокращения номинальной стоимости собственного капитала и эквивалента капитала для финансовых учреждений всех типов за вычетом капитала центрального банка. Эта интерпретация основывается на балансовом подходе и позволяет оценить степень декапитализации номинально, без учёта инфляции.Установлено, что декапитализация финансового сектора в Украине в 2014 - 2016 гг. приобрела следующие основные формы: уменьшение собственного капитала из-за обесценивания долговых финансовых инструментов; уменьшение собственного капитала из-за обесценения паевых финансовых инструментов; сокращение капитала в связи с прекращением деятельности финансовых институтов.Авторы утверждают, что основной причиной декапитализации банковского сектора были взаимосвязанные тенденции резкого ухудшения качества активов и дефицита ликвидности.Показано, что основными причинами декапитализации пенсионных фондов стали резкое сокращение пенсионных взносов вследствие ухудшения финансового состояния компаний реального сектора, финансирующих программы дополнительного пенсионного обеспечения, а также убытков, связанных с обесценением портфелей акций и неплатежеспособностью банков.Было установлено, что определяющими факторами декапитализации страховых компаний стали сокращение их зарегистрированного уставного капитала за счет уменьшения количества лицензированных страховых компаний, ухудшение финансовых показателей (из-за снижения спроса на страховые услуги, вызванного общим экономическим спадом), обесценение финансовых активов (акций) и потеря средств в неплатежеспособных банках, что привело к увеличению числа убыточных страховых компаний.Показано, что основными причинами декапитализации институтов совместного инвестирования (ИСИ) был вывод капитала участниками ИСИ открытого типа, совпавший по времени с банковской паникой (начало 2014 года), ухудшением качества финансовых активов и потеря средств в неплатежеспособных банках, приостановление обращения ценных бумаг эмитентов, находящихся на оккупированных территориях (в Крыму и в районе АТО).Авторы определяют количественную (номинальную) величину декапитализации финансового сектора в Украине по сегментам. Они установили, что основными негативными последствиями декапитализации финансового сектора Украины в 2014 - 2016 гг. являются: отсутствие доверия к финансовым институтам, снижение долговогофинансирования реальной экономики, повышение процентных ставок из-за растущего дефицита свободных финансовых ресурсов на внутреннем рынке и неспособность финансового сектора увеличить их предложение.Авторы дают оценку последствий декапитализации финансового сектора для экономики Украины. Подчеркивается, что нехватка капитала в финансовых институтах останется одним из основных препятствий на пути восстановления паевого и долгового финансирования реального сектора, что усложнит запуск рыночных механизмов восстановления экономики в Украине. 2018 Article Decapitalization of financial sector: consequences for the economy of Ukraine / V.V. Zymovets, N.M. 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The paper reveals the conceptual basis of decapitalization of the financial sector as a phenomenon, generated by both objective and subjective factors: fundamental causes of decapitalization of the financial sector may be due to deteriorating financial conditions of borrowers and issuers and capital losses in other sectors, resulting in negative values of net savings at macro level; in the case of reduction of the rate of net savings or its negative value (with unavailability of external financing) economic system undergoes local or total decapitalization, which expands to all sectors.The authors indicated, that the forms and methods of decapitalization of the financial sector were determined by the type of financial institution, and by the special nature of financial relations with other sectors and the related structure of assets and liabilities.The concept of "decapitalization of the financial sector" is justified as absolute reduction of the nominal amounts of equity and equity equivalent for the financial institutions of all types less the capital of the central bank. This interpretation requires a balance approach and allows evaluating the extent of decapitalization nominally, taking no account of money depreciation due to inflation. It is established, that decapitalization of the financial sector in Ukraine in 2014-2016 acquired the following main forms: a decrease in equity due to depreciation of debt-based financial instruments; a decrease in equity due to the depreciation of equity-debt financial instruments; a reduction of capital in connection with the termination of financial institutions;The authors argued, that the fundamental reason of decapitalization of the banking sector were interrelated trends of depreciation and liquidity shortage, associated with the loss, by part of the banks, of their ability to fulfill obligations to depositors and creditors.It is shown, that the main reasons of the decapitalization of the Private Pension Funds were the rapid reduction of pension contributions as a result of the poor financial state of the real sector companies, that fund programs of supplementary pension probision, as well as losses due to the depreciation of the stocks portfolios and banks` insolvency .It was found, that the determining factors of the decapitalization of the insurance companies were the reduction of their registered authorized capital due to reduction of the number of licensed insurance companies, deteriorating financial performance (due to lower demand for insurance services, caused by the overall economic downturn), depreciation of financial assets (shares) and the loss of funds in insolvent banks, which led to increased number of loss-making insurance companies;It was shown, that the main causes of the decapitalization of the Collective Investment Institutions (CII), operating on market principles, were the withdrawal of capital by participants of open-type CII, which coincided in time with the banking panic (early 2014), depreciation of financial assets and loss of funds in insolvent banks, suspention of the circulation of the issuers' securities on some territories (in the Crimea and in the ATO area).The authors defined the quantitative (nominal) amount of the decapitalization of thefinancial sector in Ukraine by segments. It was found, that the main negative effects of the decapitalization of the financial sector of Ukraine during 2014-2016 were the following: lack of equity to restore confidence in financial institutions, the decline in the debt financing of the real economy, higher interest rates due to the growing shortage of free financial resources on the domestic market and the failure of the financial sector to increase theirs propositions.The authors provided an assessment of the consequences of decapitalization of the financial sector for Ukrainian economy. It was emphasized, that the lack of capital in financial institutions would remain one of the main obstacles to the recovery in equity and debt financing in the real economy, which would complicate the launch of market mechanisms of economic recovery in Ukraine. |
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ISSN 1562-109X Econ. promisl. 21
2018, № 3 (83)
UDC 336:338(477) doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/econindustry2018.03.021
Vladyslav V. Zymovets,
Doctor of Economics
E-mail: zymovets_vlad@ukr.net;
Nataliia M. Shelud`ko,
Doctor of Economics
Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine
01011, Ukraine, Кyiv, Panasa Myrnoho Str., 26
E-mail: n.sheludko@ukr.net
DECAPITALIZATION OF FINANCIAL SECTOR:
CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ECONOMY OF UKRAINE
The paper reveals the conceptual basis of decapitalization of the financial sector as a phe-
nomenon, generated by both objective and subjective factors: fundamental causes of decapitaliza-
tion of the financial sector may be due to deteriorating financial conditions of borrowers and issu-
ers and capital losses in other sectors, resulting in negative values of net savings at macro level; in
the case of reduction of the rate of net savings or its negative value (with unavailability of external
financing) economic system undergoes local or total decapitalization, which expands to all sec-
tors.
The authors indicated, that the forms and methods of decapitalization of the financial sector
were determined by the type of financial institution, and by the special nature of financial rela-
tions with other sectors and the related structure of assets and liabilities.
The concept of "decapitalization of the financial sector" is justified as absolute reduction of
the nominal amounts of equity and equity equivalent for the financial institutions of all types less
the capital of the central bank. This interpretation requires a balance approach and allows evaluat-
ing the extent of decapitalization nominally, taking no account of money depreciation due to infla-
tion.
It is established, that decapitalization of the financial sector in Ukraine in 2014-2016 ac-
quired the following main forms: a decrease in equity due to depreciation of debt- based financial
instruments; a decrease in equity due to the depreciation of equity- debt financial instruments; a
reduction of capital in connection with the termination of financial institutions;
The authors argued, that the fundamental reason of decapitalization of the banking sector
were interrelated trends of depreciation and liquidity shortage, associated with the loss, by part of
the banks, of their ability to fulfill obligations to depositors and creditors.
It is shown, that the main reasons of the decapitalization of the Private Pension Funds were
the rapid reduction of pension contributions as a result of the poor financial state of the real sector
companies, that fund programs of supplementary pension probision, as well as losses due to the
depreciation of the stocks portfolios and banks` insolvency .
It was found, that the determining factors of the decapitalization of the insurance companies
were the reduction of their registered authorized capital due to reduction of the number of licensed
insurance companies, deteriorating financial performance (due to lower demand for insurance ser-
vices, caused by the overall economic downturn), depreciation of financial assets (shares) and the
loss of funds in insolvent banks, which led to increased number of loss-making insurance compa-
nies;
It was shown, that the main causes of the decapitalization of the Collective Investment Insti-
tutions (CII), operating on market principles, were the withdrawal of capital by participants of
open-type CII, which coincided in time with the banking panic (early 2014), depreciation of fi-
nancial assets and loss of funds in insolvent banks, suspention of the circulation of the issuers' se-
curities on some territories (in the Crimea and in the ATO area).
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The authors defined the quantitative (nominal) amount of the decapitalization of the finan-
cial sector in Ukraine by segments. It was found, that the main negative effects of the decapitali-
zation of the financial sector of Ukraine during 2014-2016 were the following: lack of equity to
restore confidence in financial institutions, the decline in the debt financing of the real economy,
higher interest rates due to the growing shortage of free financial resources on the domestic mar-
ket and the failure of the financial sector to increase theirs propositions.
The authors provided an assessment of the consequences of decapitalization of the financial
sector for Ukrainian economy. It was emphasized, that the lack of capital in financial institutions
would remain one of the main obstacles to the recovery in equity and debt financing in the real
economy, which would complicate the launch of market mechanisms of economic recovery in
Ukraine.
Keywords: capital, banks, financial sector, financial corporations.
JEL: E210, E620, G320
Capital adequacy of the financial sector
is one of the main pillars of the development
of a country’s economy and its main sector –
industry, undergoing now a renaissance due to
the advanced development of the Industrial
Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and
modern cyberphysical systems [1]. The need
for technological renewal and structural
changes in the economy requires a rapid up-
dating of fixed assets. So a properly capital-
ized financial sector is, among other factors, a
prerequisite for recovery of the national econ-
omy. The poor performance of financial in-
termediaries (particularly in terms of loans
and investments supply) reduces the rate of
the intersectoral mobility of capital and pre-
serves the current outdated structure of pro-
duction.
The government cannot assume the func-
tion of the financial sector and provide in so
doing a more effective redistribution of finan-
cial resources. On the contrary, in a situation
where public finances are in a difficult situa-
tion, the government by excessive borrowing
from the financial sector distorts the market
mechanisms of resource allocation1.
Financial corporations’ sector in a mar-
ket economy is designed to accumulate savings
of other sectors and transform them into pro-
ductive capital through the mechanisms of indi-
rect (debt or equity) financing, thereby contrib-
1 In economic science it was called the "crowding
out effect", when part of savings, accumulated by the fi-
nancial sector, is used to "patch the holes" in the public
finances [2, p. 16].
uting to the inter-industrial reallocation of capi-
tal. The growth of such funding is possible with
the two key factors, namely – public confi-
dence in financial institutions and availability
of net savings in the household sector.
Public confidence in the financial sector,
along with the influence of other factors, is
based on the capital adequacy of the financial
institutions, required to cover potential losses,
related to active operations. The level of confi-
dence depends on the ability of regulators to
prevent frauds, and the current system of pru-
dential supervision over financial institutions
and corporate governance.
Loss of capital by financial institutions
(decapitalization) may be a case of both objec-
tive and subjective factors – losses, caused by
assets’ ready sales during a financial crisis by
financial institutions [3], bad loans (Nonper-
forming Loans – NLP) and securities write-
offs [4].
Some theoretical models were devel-
oped to predict the ex-post financial institu-
tions losses during the financial crisis. The
models allow to measure systemic expected
shortfall (SES) of financial institutions during
a systemic crisis and the probability of the fi-
nancial systems as a whole going undercapi-
talized [5]. It was argued, that SES increases
with the financial institution's leverage and
with its expected loss in the tail of the sys-
tem's loss distribution.
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The fundamental macroeconomic rea-
sons of decapitalization of the financial sector1
may be the deteriorating financial condition of
borrowers and capital issuers, losses in other
sectors, macroeconomic expression of which
may take a form of negative values of the "Net
savings" indicator. In case of reduced rate or
negative value of net savings with unavailabil-
ity of external sources of financing, the eco-
nomic system undergoes local or total decapi-
talization, which expands to all sectors.
M. Brunnermeier and H.Pedersen argued, that
the separate finacial institutions’ lossess might
degenerate into a downward spiral, that can
spread into the financial system and cause an
aggregate shortfall of capital [6].
Specific forms and methods of decapi-
talization of the financial sector are deter-
mined by the type of financial institution, the
specific financial relations, arising with other
sectors of the economy, and related structure
of assets and liabilities. This fully concerns
Ukraine, which is also characterized by a spe-
cific institutional environment. The latest re-
search on the problem of decapitalization of
the financial sector in Ukraine showed the in-
stitutional and macrofinancial causes of the
banks undercapitalization in Ukraine [7].
V.Koziuk argued, that the fundamental reason
of Ukrainian banking system undercapitaliza-
tion was caused by its inability to be resistant
against NPL hikes even in time of formal suit-
ability to formal regulatory norms [8]. So he
concluded, that banking regulation model in
Ukraine was “blind” and unable to react ade-
quately to institutional distortions. V. Мish-
chenko proved, that strengthening the finan-
cial stability of the banking sector requires
implementation of the regulations, provided
by Basel III as to creation of additional buffer
and countercyclical bank capital [9]. S. Nau-
menkova et al. [10] focuses on the risks of
spreading the insolvency of financial institu-
1 The notion of “decapitalization” is interpreted as
absolute decrease in the nominal volumes of equity and
related capital of the financial institutions less the capital of
the national central bank. When investigating the decapital-
ization, we used exclusively the balance sheet approach
without taking into account the over time depreciation of
money via inflation.
tions to other sectors of the economy and im-
balances exacerbation at the level of the fi-
nancial system as a whole.
However, channels and mechanisms of
the intersectoral transfer of capital shortages
in Ukraine have not been explored. Also,
causes of the non-bank financial institutions
capital shortages in Ukraine were never stud-
ied before. Some aspects of the financial sec-
tor’s decapitalization need to be clarified, tak-
ing into account the latest trends in Ukraine
and the actualization of the problem of global
financial instability [11]. All of these have
determined the objective of this paper – the
identification of specific processes of decapi-
talization of the financial sector in Ukraine,
including the non-bank financial institutions,
its macrofinancial causes and consequences
for other sectors of national economy, as well
as reverse effects of the financial sector’s de-
capitalization on the economy as a whole. We
pay special attention to the impact of key
macrofinancial imbalances, caused by public
finance deficit and nonfinancial corporations’
debt ratios, as well as on the financial sector’s
decapitalization trends.
Fundamental conditions and general
trends of the decapitalization
of Ukrainian financial sector
During 2008-2013, there was a clear
tendency to fall in rate of net savings (from
11.6% of GDP in 2008 to 0.8% of GDP in
2012), which meant the formation of a con-
sumption based economic model. During the
pre-crisis period and 2010-2013, the insuffi-
cient domestic savings were offset by external
borrowing. Especially massive external bor-
rowing took place in 2011-2013, which al-
lowed to temporarily conceal the poor state of
the capital accumulation in the economy (Ta-
ble 1). In 2014 net savings rate was negative (-
0.8% of GDP) and covered by the lending
from International Monetary Fund (IMF). The
higher net savings rate in 2015-2016 resulted
from the squeezing of private consumption,
crucial fall of household savings and the
wealth redistribution on the benefit of the Na-
tional Bank of Ukraine caused by the hryvna’s
depreciation.
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Table 1
Net savings and external borrowing in 2008-2016, % of GDP
Indicator 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Rate of net savings 11.6 4.9 7.6 6.3 0.8 -3.1 -0.8 4.4 6.0
Lending/borrowing 7.1 -0.1 0.1 4.7 6.0 6.2 1.5 -1.4 2.4
Total 18.7 4.8 7.7 11.0 6.8 3.3 0.7 3.0 8.4
Source: Consolidated national accounts. Available at: http://ukrstat.gov.ua/
During 2010-2013, the national debt
was rapidly increasing, and the rate of net sav-
ings was reducing. It is exactly during this
period, that the macroeconomic foundations of
the further decapitalization of financial sector
were laid. First of all, we mean the excessive
public spending, that was not backed up with
corresponding revenues. The cumulative defi-
cit of the consolidated budget for 2010-2013
alone exceeded 200 billion USD or almost 4%
of GDP. Since 2009, in the general govern-
ment sector, net savings were negative, and in
2013 they amounted to -54.4 billion USD, and
during 2009-2013 their total amount was
UAH 246 billion.
Another important factor was the impact
of decapitalization in the sector of non-
financial corporations, where net negative
value of savings in 2013 amounted to 119.5
billion UAH (Table 2). During 2009-2013,
cumulative shortage of capital in the real sec-
tor amounted to 362.7 billion USD. With the
decline in the households’ net savings (from
161.8 billion UAH in 2010 to 116.27 billion
UAH in 2013), the shortage of capital in the
economy increased, which required increasing
foreign loans. Excessive government con-
sumption and poor performance of the non-
financial corporations were the main causes of
the decline and negative rate of net savings,
which reached -3.2% of GDP, or 48.2 billion
UAH in 2013.
Table 2
Net savings by institutional sectors in 2005-2016, bln UAH
Year
Non-financial
corporations
Financial
corporations
General
government
sector
Households
Non-commercial
organizations,
providing services
for the households
2005 1.88 10.97 4.59 45.65 -0.27
2006 7.15 14.10 3.82 44.20 -0.55
2007 18.27 24.75 14.09 47.78 -0.75
2008 6.13 39.78 12.21 52.01 -0.57
2009 -28.64 52.80 -59.43 80.38 -0.56
2010 -51.25 37.45 -65.65 161.87 -0.11
2011 -62.29 43.15 -21.33 123.12 -0.06
2012 -101.01 10.99 -44.80 147.28 -0.14
2013 -119.54 10.08 -54.37 116.27 -0.74
2014 -6.66 26.83 -53.21 30.78 -0.24
2015 65.03 9.06 1.32 12.98 -0.45
2016 165.98 15.57 -18.60 -17.89 -0.11
Source: Accounts of the institutional sectors of the economy. Available at: http://ukrstat.gov.ua/
In 2014-2015 the net savings’ sectoral
structure had changed drastically. We could
observe the significant drop in the household
savings from 116.3 billion UAH in 2013 to
12.98 billion UAH in 2015. In 2016 the
household savings has gone negative. This
effected the downward impact on the total net
saving rate. Among others the important rea-
son of the households savings’ fall was the
extremely low demand on the national curren-
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cy and the savings flight in the foreign curren-
cy estimated by SNA as net lending (-1.4%
GNP in 2015).
Before 2014, the sector of financial cor-
porations had showed a positive rate of net
savings, remaining the focus of capital accu-
mulation in the economy. The availability of
external financing before 2014 allowed miti-
gating the shortage of domestic funding
sources, and no direct connection was ob-
served between the rate of net savings and
capital of the financial sector.
Beginning from 2014, decapitalization
of the financial sector became a result of vari-
ous geopolitical factors, connected with the
annexation of the Crimea and beginning of the
military conflict in the Southeast of Ukraine,
which, in combination with the already exist-
ing cumulative macro-financial imbalances
led to the loss of access to international finan-
cial markets and capital flight from Ukraine.
The negative balance of payments in 2014,
amounting to 13.3 billion USD, strengthened
the cumulative deficit of capital and acted as a
trigger for the rapid destruction of Ukrainian
financial system.
Table 3 shows the volumes of the bank
and non-bank financial institutions’ equity and
its equivalents from early 2013 to September
2017.
Table 3
Equity (shares and other equity) of Ukrainian financial sector in 2013-2017,
end of the year, million UAH
Year Bank institutions* Non-banking financial institutions**
2012 202 399 226 325
2013 232 103 249 459
2014 213 554 261 000
2015 162 090 264 125
2016 161 246 242 288
2017 (Septemer 30) 192 199 259 600
* Deposit corporations including insolvent banks less the National Bank of Ukraine.
** Insurance companies, non-public pension funds, collective investment institutions, credit unions and
other credit institutions, financial companies, legal entities, that provide financial leasing services, pawnshops
and financial auxiliaries.
Source: Surveys of financial corporations. Available at: http://bank.gov.ua/files/3.1-Monetary_
Statistics.xls
After the crisis of 2008-2009, the
amounts Ukrainian financial sector’s capital
grew. During 2013, the banks’ capital in-
creased by 30 billion UAH and that of non-
bank financial institutions by 23 billion UAH.
During 2014-2015, a trend of decapitalization
of the financial sector emerged: initially in the
banking segment and later in the sector of
non-bank financial institutions.
The process of bank decapitalization
started already in the first phase of decapitali-
zation of the financial sector (early 2014), but
it was not critical in scale: the capital de-
creased by 10.5 billion UAH, representing
4.5% of the banks’ total equity as of early
2014. Non-bank financial institutions, unlike
banks, had relatively small amounts of current
liabilities and were less vulnerable to currency
risks. The rise of capital in the non-banking
financial institutions lasted until the end of the
2015, because of the fundamentally different
nature of the risks inherent in their activities1.
The main reason of the decapitalization
of the financial sector was the rapid deteriora-
tion of the general economic situation under
the influence of unfavorable combination of
1
The excess of the amount of capital in the non-
bank financial institutions over that of the banks is ex-
plained by the fact, that capital includes the net asset value
of the Institutions of collective investment (ICIs) and non-
public pension funds (NPFs). Moreover, most of them are
accounted for the net assets of venture ICIs, which are
overloaded with poor quality securities, account of which
at fair value is not conducted. These features should be
considered, when comparing the capital of these institu-
tions with that of the banks.
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political and economic factors. Figure 1
shows, that the scale of decapitalization of the
financial sector was the largest in late 2014 -
early 2015 due to the worsening situation in
the temporarily occupied territories of the
East.
Source: Surveys of financial corporations. Available at: http://bank.gov.ua/files/3.1-Monetary_
Statistics.xls
Fig. 1. The scope of decapitalization of Ukrainian financial sector in 2014-2017
In conditions of high uncertainty and
investment risks, households as the main do-
nor of the financial sector tried to break finan-
cial relationships with banks and other finan-
cial institutions. A significant impact was
caused by the devaluation of the hryvnia un-
der the pressure of the balance of payments
deficit in the first quarter of 2014 (amounting
to 4.3 billion USD), which was enough to
trigger the process of deleverage (withdrawal
of funds) and decapitalization of the financial
sector.
In a market economy the loss of liquidi-
ty is not followed by a loss of capital only in
case of debt restructuring. Since the society
was not ready for such restructuring, the bank-
ing panic began, when a considerable part of
the depositors tried to withdraw their deposits
(Fig. 1).
Specific features of the decapitalization
of Ukrainian financial sector were determined
by the type of financial institution, specific
financial relations with other sectors, and the
structure of assets and liabilities.
Banks: causes and characteristics
of decapitalization
Decapitalization of the banks began in
the first quarter of 2014. According to the Na-
tional Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the banks’ eq-
uity from early 2014 to the end of 2015 de-
creased by 91 billion UAH (from 192 to
101 billion) (Table 4). Given that part of the
banking sector, namely – the state-owned
banks, received a capital infusion of more than
20 billion UAH [12], the real extent of decapi-
talization can be estimated at 110 billion
UAH1.
1
Apart from calculating the insolvent banks, the
volume of decapitalization of the "working" banks amounts
to 65 billion USD, and in terms of regulatory capital - 66
billion UAH. As a result of decapitalization of the banking
sector, the indicator of adequacy of regulatory capital
(standard value - 10%) decreased from 18.26% in early
2014 to 8.03% as of 08.01.2015. According to Investment
Capital Ukraine, the banking system of Ukraine for the
next three years needs a capital increase of 120 billion
UAH [13] to restore capital adequacy.
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Table 4
Capital of Ukrainian banks in 2014-2017, mln UAH
Indicator 01.01.2014 01.01.2015* 01.01.2016 01.01.2017 01.01.2018
Balace-sheet capital 192 269 147 692 101 560 124 647 159 827
Regulatory capital 204 976 188 949 129 817 109 654 115 818
Regulatory capital to risk-
weighted assets , % 18.3 15.6 12.3 12.7 16.1
Financial Result 1 436 -52 9661 -72 548 -160 143 -25 972
Non-performing Loans to
Total Gross Loans, % 12,9 19,0 28,0 30,5 54,5
1
The financial result of the banking system was negatively impacted by the losses of the banks, classified
as insolvent, in which interim administrations were introduced.
* Less the banks under liquidation and those declared insolvent.
Source: Financial Soundness Indicators. Available at: http://data.imf.org/regular.aspx?key=61404590
The fundamental reason of the decapi-
talization of the banking sector were the inter-
related trends of impairment of assets and li-
quidity shortages, caused by the loss of the
banks’ ability to meet their obligations before
depositors and creditors.
1. Deterioration and impairment of as-
sets. The main component of the assets in the
banking sector are loans, which in early 2014
already had poor quality, caused by both ob-
jective (poor financial condition of borrowers)
and subjective (common practice of crediting
related parties) factors.
At the beginning of 2014, the level of in-
debtedness of the non-financial corporations
sector was 1.92 and the equity deficit was esti-
mated at 350 billion UAH, which was the
amount, needed to reduce excessive indebted-
ness to critically acceptable 1.5. During 2014-
2015, general economic factors, such as falling
domestic and external demand, the depreciation
of the hryvnia, and loss of control over the as-
sets in Crimea and Southeast Ukraine led to
deterioration in the financial condition of non-
financial corporations, growth of their indebt-
edness and worsening of the debt service ca-
pacity.
The cumulative negative financial result
of the non-financial corporations before taxa-
tion for the half year (since I quarter of 2014)
amounted to 1.19 trillion UAH. [3] Consolidat-
ed net loss for the period from 01.01.2014 to
01.01.2015 reached 779.2 billion UAH, ac-
counting for 39.9% of total equity at the begin-
ning of 2014 (1.95 trillion UAH). According to
our calculations, the deficit of the companies’
equity as of 01.07.2015 was estimated at be-
tween 800 billion to 1 trillion UAH. Obligations
for loans became more problematic. It can be
stated that in 2014-2015 decapitalization of the
real sector, that began in 2012-2013, spread to
the financial sector.
Deteriorating of the credit quality re-
quired increase in the banks’ spending on the
bad debts provisions formation. While in 2013
the amount of these deductions was 26 billion
UAH, in 2014 it amounted to 99 billion UAH,
in 2015 – 120 billion UAH, in 2016 – 200 bil-
lion UAH. The share of Non-performing Loans
in Total Gross Loans during 2014-2015 grew
rapidly - from 12.9% in early 2014 to over 54%
in the end of 2017, which resulted in increased
banks’ spending on provisions, which, from the
beginning of 2014 have totaled 466 billion
UAH.
One can partly agree with the opinion of
the former Head of the NBU that "... the real
sector is overcredited, and the banks should
credit fresh and healthy working businesses,
and there will be no crediting until they (the
companies) increase their capital" [12], but the
bank loans account for no more than 20% of
the companies’ total debt. Therefore, it would
be more correct to speak not about the compa-
nies’ overcreditness, but about their overload
with accounts payable, i.e. not with liabilities
to banks, but with those to other contractors.
The payment crisis and lengthening debt ma-
turities have led to a rapid increase in accounts
payable. Not least, this was due to the lack of
companies’ liquidity, that emerged as a result
of the unavailability of their funds on the ac-
counts in insolvent banks and the growth of
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the government debt due to the overpaid cor-
porate tax and untimely VAT refund, which
total for 47 billion UAH [14]. This is the way
how the decapitalization spiraled: the compa-
nies lose their funds in the insolvent banks,
which meant the loss of their liquid assets, but
did not reduce their liabilities to creditors.
2. The lack of liquidity and loss of the
banks’ capacity to fulfill their obligations to
depositors. In early 2014, when the bank pan-
ic began, the companies lose their ability to
service the debt and needed financial restruc-
turing, while the households showed an ab-
normally high demand for cash and tried to
withdraw money from banks as soon as possi-
ble. Rising geopolitical risks caused an unusu-
ally high percentage of withdrawals: during
2014 alone, the households withdrew 22% of
their deposits in local currency and 40% in
foreign currency.
Along with the influence of other fac-
tors, the bank panic led to technical insolven-
cy, the introduction of interim administration
and liquidation of a significant part of banks.
The number of banks with banking license
decreased from 180 at the beginning of 2014
to 82 on 1 January 2018 (less the insolvent
banks). The amount of decapitalization, result-
ing from the withdrawal of insolvent banks
from the market during 2014-2015, was 46
billion UAH.
Non-bank financial institutions,
specific features of the process
of decapitalization
Unlike the banks, decapitalization in the
sector of non-bank financial institutions began
later and had much lower absolute and relative
volumes. While, as of early 2014, the banking
sector lost almost one-third (30.3%) of its eq-
uity, which amounted to 70.4 billion UAH, the
capital of non-bank financial institutions dur-
ing the same period even slightly increased –
by 3.5 billion UAH (1.45%). Only the insur-
ance companies’ equity decreased – by 1.3
billion (3.3%), while investment and non-
public pension funds increased their net assets
by 22.3% and 3.2% respectively.
This is due to the specific financial rela-
tions of the pension funds and collective in-
vestment institutions with their participants. It
can be concluded, that this segment of the fi-
nancial sector has a relatively higher stability to
the negative impact of internal and external
risks, but it could not make a significant stabi-
lizing effect on the entire Ukrainian financial
sector due to a small share of the non-bank fi-
nancial institutions’ assets in total assets of the
financial sector.
Non-public pension funds (NPFs). By
the development of the level and an im-
portance of non-public pension provision for
the functioning of the mechanism of savings-
investments transformation, Ukraine falls be-
hind both the developed countries and neigh-
boring countries, which have chosen the path
of the civilized development, namely – Po-
land, Slovakia and Romania. According to the
Ukrainian legislation, only the operation of
funds with defined contribution, (i.e. savings
funds) is permitted. Accumulating financial
resources of their participants, the NPFs take
no fixed liabilities and their net assets are dis-
tributed proportionally among participants.
This allows to qualify the net assets of non-
public funds as hybrid capital.
Since the specificity of non-public funds
in Ukraine is due to the fact, that they are
funds with defined contribution, their decapi-
talization (meaning decrease in their net as-
sets value) is possible in three cases: with the
growth of pension payments, with decreased
revenues and with the depreciation of assets,
valuated at fair value in accordance with
IAS26, 32 item of which establishes that "re-
tirement benefit plan investments shall be car-
ried at fair value."
During 2014 - 2016, NPFs’ assets struc-
ture underwent some changes, the main of
which were the increase in the share of gov-
ernment securities from 11.5% to 40.8% and
reduction of the share of Ukrainian issuers -
from 13.3% to 0.5% (Table 5). The bulk of the
NPFs’ assets is placed as bank deposits, which
account for over a third of total assets.
The main risks for the NPFs, with the given
assets structure, are losses due to the liquida-
tion of insolvent banks and impairment of
shares, resulting from the decrease in market
prices.
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Table 5
Structure of NPFs’ assets in 2014–2017, %
Investment assets 31.12.2013 31.12.2014 31.12.2015 31.12.2016 31.12.2017
Bank deposits 36.4 38.6 39.4 41.3 43.9
Government and government guaran-
teed securities
11.5 15.3 34.1
41.0 40.8
Bonds, issued by Ukrainian compa-
nies
31.0 27.6 13.4
9.4 8.2
Shares, issued by Ukrainian entities 13.3 10.6 3.3 0.7 0.5
Other assets 7.8 7.9 9.8 7.6 6.6
Source: Results of the development of the system of non-public pension provision as of 31.12.2017.
Available at: https://www.nfp.gov.ua/files/17_Dep_Repetska/NPF_IV_kv%202017.pdf
Until 2014, a positive dynamics of the
growth of NPFs’ assets had been observed,
with an annual increase at 25% during 2010-
2013. Since 2014 this trend has been slowing
down due to the unfavorable general econom-
ic dynamics and reduced investment activities
on the stock market. Although the NPFs’
segment worsened the dynamics of develop-
ment and accumulation of assets, but its trend
of decapitalization is not very clear and not
yet rampant. We can rather consider the de-
cline in activities in this sector and decreased
number of operating NPFs. While, in early
2014, the State Register of Financial Institu-
tions contained information about 81 NPFs,
on 31.12.2017, there were only 64 of them
left. Reduction of the total number of NPFs
was somewhat offset by the growth of net as-
sets of the operating NPFs.
In 2014, the growth of NPFs’ assets
slowed to 18% per year, and, in 2015, the as-
sets decreased by 0.49 billion UAH, or by
19.8%. The trend to decrease in NPFs’ assets,
which began in IV quarter of 2014, gives
grounds to state a moderate decapitalization of
the NPFs, which basic forms were:
rapid reduction of the net pension
contributions as a result of the poor financial
state of main contributors (enterprises), which
fund the programs of supplementary pension
provision (Tab. 6). While in 2013 the volume
of pension contributions amounted to 273 mil-
lion UAH, in 2014 it was 220 million UAH,
and in the 2015 – only 78.6 million UAH;
unprofitable activities, caused by
the depreciation of portfolios and losses of
funds in the insolvent banks. In 2015, the
NPFs’ losses exceeded 489 million UAH and
were caused by the fall of the PFTS stock in-
dex [5] and the losses due to the liquidation of
banks.
Table 6.
NPFs’ assets and channels of their formation in 2014-2017, million UAH
Period Assets
Increase in NPFs’
assets
Profit from
assets
Pension contributions
(net)
2012 1660.10 Х х х
2013 2089.80 429.70 198.0 273.80
2014 2469.20 379.4 277.0 220.70
2015 1 980.0 (489.2) (438.0) 78.60
2016 2 138.7 158.7 177.8 8.40
2017 2 465.6 326.9 349.1 2.10
Source: Information on the condition and development of non-public pension provision in Ukraine.
Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua/content/stan-i-rozvitok-npz.html
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Insurance companies. The absolute vol-
ume and relative scope of the decapitalization of
insurance companies in 2014-2015 were signifi-
cantly lower, than in the banking sector. This is
due to the specifics of financial relations in the
field of insurance, which do not involve the re-
turn of premiums to policy holders in the event
of termination of the insurance contracts. In oth-
er words, the factor of liquidity shortage, caused
by the bank panic, is not indicative for insurance
activities, which allowed to avoid massive de-
capitalization in this subsector.
Total decrease in the equity of the in-
surance companies during 2014-2015 was 1.3
billion UAH, accounting for 3.3% of their to-
tal equity in early 2014. In the same period,
total decrease in their assets amounted to 2.8
billion UAH, while the most significant reduc-
tion took place in the investment in shares (by
2.9 billion UAH) (Tab. 7).
Unlike banks, insurance companies in the
first half of 2014 did not lose their capital. De-
capitalization of the insurance companies inten-
sified in late 2014 - 2016 (Fig. 2).
Table 7
The assets and equity of insurance companies in 2014-2017, million UAH
Date
Insurers’ assets,
total
Deposits Shares Equity
Authorized capi-
tal
31.12.2013 66387.0 9296.4 17834.3 40207.6 15 232.50
31.12.2014 70 261.2 9031.8 18009.1 36176.0 15 120.90
31.12.2015 60 729.1 12 603.8 11 901.4 27 805.0 14 474.80
31.12.2016 56 075.60 11 528.60 7 968.60 26 881.5 12 661.60
31.12.2017 57 381.00 12 238.20 6 653.60 27 300.8 12 831.30
Source: Results of the activities of insurance companies. Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua/files/Ogliad
Rinkiv/SK/sk_%202013.pdf; https://forinsurer.com/files/file00565.pdf; https://forinsurer.com/files/file00634.pdf
-4831,5
-6792,1
-924,0
419,3
3215,1
-452,7
689,2
234,8
-8 000
-6 000
-4 000
-2 000
0
2 000
4 000
2014 2015 2016 2017
mln UAH
Equity Net income (consolidated)
Source: Consolidated accounting data. Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua/content/konsolidovani-zvitni-dani.html
Fig.2. Сhanges in Equity and Financial Results of the insurance companies in 2014-2017.
During 2014, the insurance companies’
equity capital decreased by 2.8 billion UAH,
which accounts for 7% of this indicator at the
end of the previous year. The main forms of
decapitalization in the insurance segment were
the following:
– reduction of the registered author-
ized capital by 2,4 billion UAH due to the de-
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crease in the number of licensed insurance
companies, which led to a decapitalization of
the insurance sector. While at the beginning of
2014 the total number of insurance companies
amounted to 407, on 01.01.2017 there was
294 of them;
– deterioration of financial perfor-
mance due to lower demand for insurance ser-
vices, caused by overall economic downturn.
In 2014, with the growth of insurance pay-
ments at 400 million UAH, premiums, re-
ceived by the insurance companies, decreased
by almost 2 billion UAH. The profits of the
insurance sector in 2014 decreased compared
to 2013 by 44%;
– impairment of financial assets
(shares) and the loss of funds in the insolvent
banks, which led to the increase in the number
of loss-making insurance companies. In 2014-
2017, total losses of the loss-making insurance
companies were 5.5 billion UAH.
Overall, during 2014 - 2017, one can
observe only moderate decapitalization in the
sector of insurance companies, while the capi-
tal adequacy (ratio of equity to total assets)
remained the same as at the beginning of
2014.
Institutions of collective investment
(ICIs). Specifics of the financial relations in
the segment of collective investment institu-
tions is characterized by the dominance of
closed-end investment funds of venture type,
for which no requirements as to asset diversi-
fication are established and which are allowed
to invest in bonds, promissory notes, real es-
tate and "garbage" securities (those not al-
lowed to trading on stock exchanges). As of
01.07.2015, out of 1171 working1 investment
funds, 1000 were venture funds, which acco-
unted for 94.4% of net asset of the ICIs [15].
Another feature is the dominance
among participants of legal entities, which as
of July 1, 2015 accounted for 93.6% of the net
assets of ICIs, while individuals accounted for
only 6.4% of such assets. Thus, ICIs perform
1 Those, that have reached the legal minimum
amount of assets (1,250 minimum monthly salaries) on the
date of the registration of the fund as a collective invest-
ment institution.
the function of transforming household sav-
ings into investments in relatively small vol-
umes. The predominance of legal entities in
the composition of ICIs imposed certain speci-
ficity on their activities and assets structure.
The ICIs were used as a tool to avoid taxation
and perform non-transparent financial transac-
tions with securities and other financial assets.
Decapitalization (negative growth of net
assets) of all the ICIs, except venture ones,
only took place in the second quarter of 2014.
During 2014-2017, the total net assets of ICIs
increased by 86 billion UAH. At the same
time the net assets of those ICIs, which are
based on market principles, attracting the in-
dividuals’ saving (open and interval funds),
decreased by 27% and 35%, respectively, or
by 231 million UAH in total. The slow recov-
ery of non-venture ICIs’ sector Ukraine got
only in 2017 (Tab. 8).
According to the experts of Ukrainian
Association of Investment Business (UAIB),
capital outflow of the depositors in the open-
end ICIs exceeded the decrease in net assets,
which peaks took place in the first quarter of
2014. During 2015, one can observe a slow-
down in net capital outflows from open ICIs,
which decreased by 10 times compared to the
first quarter of 2014 [16]. Although the vol-
umes of capital withdrawals across the finan-
cial sector were generally low and could not
significantly affect the volume of investment
in the whole economy, but the very fact of
capital withdrawal from these institutions,
which even before 2014 were at an early stage
of development, is an alarming signal, and a
manifestation of the loss of public confidence
in this type of financial intermediaries. The
main forms of decapitalization of the ICIs,
operating on market principles, were the fol-
lowing:
capital withdrawals from the open
end ICIs, which coincided in time with the
banking panic of early 2014;
impairment of financial assets and
loss of funds in the insolvent banks;
suspended circulation of securities
of the issuers, located in the temporarily lost
territories.
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Table 8
The value of the ICIs’ net assets in 2014-2017, million UAH
Fund type 31.12.2013 31.12.2014 31.12.2015 31.12.2016 31.12.2017
Open end 104.2 60.4 55.4 58.1 75.1
Interval 126.8 112.5 88.9 68.1 82.1
Closed end
(less venture ones)
9108.6 10751.9 10489.9 7923.3 8364.3
Venture 168183.4 195433.2 225540.9 222138.5 254957.9
Total 177523.0 206358.0 236175.0 230188.0 263479.4
Source: Quarterly and annual reviews of the ICIs market. Available at:
http://www.uaib.com.ua/files/articles/ 2660/15/Q4%202017%20&%20FY%202017_PR.xlsx
ICIs, operating on market principles,
the venture type ICIs steadily built up their
net assets (the only failure was the begin-
ning of 2014, which was the worst for the
insurance companies as well). During 2014 -
2017, total net assets of the venture type
ICIs increased by 86.8 billion UAH, or by
51%, that can be explained by the con-
sciously (artificially) inflated value of such
funds’ assets, which are dominated by "gar-
bage" fictitious financial assets, as well as
by the revival of tax evasion (Fig. 3).
Source: Review of financial corporations. Available at: http://www.bank.gov.ua/files/3.1-Monetary_
Statistics.xls; Current liabilities and provisions by economic activities. Available at: http://ukrstat.gov.ua/
Fig. 3. Dynamics of money supply, GDP and accounts payable of the NFCs
in 2014-2016 in Ukraine
Overall, during 2014-2017, one could
observe only a local decapitalization in the sub-
sectors of open-end and interval ICIs, while in
the closed and venture type ICIs the value of
net assets increased. Thus, the process of de-
capitalization caught only that part of the ICIs,
that work directly with households. For the
ICIs, as for the NPFs, very acute is the problem
of impairment due to the loss of funds, caused
by the liquidation of insolvent banks (in partic-
ular – the sequence of the satisfaction of credi-
tors’ liabilities).
Forms and methods of decapitalization in
Ukrainian financial sector in 2014-2017
During 2014-2015, decapitalization in
the financial sector took place in all its seg-
ments. Since 2016 the weak recovery in bank-
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ing sector and later in non-banking sector was
observed, caused by the slow confidence resto-
ration. Final data on the reduction of equity and
hybrid capital of the financial institutions are
presented in Table 9.
Table 9
Changes in equity and hybrid capital of Ukrainian financial institutions
in 2014-2017, billion UAH
Period
Banking
institutions
Insurance
companies*
ІСІs less
venture ones **
Venture
funds**
NPFs**
2014 -44,58 -4,83 1,59 27,25 0,38
2015 -44,31 -6,79 -0,29 30,11 -0,49
Change for the period
2014-2015
-88,89 -11,62 1,29 57,36 -0,11
2016 20,07 -0,92 -2,58 -3,40 0,16
2017 39,81 0,42 0,47 32,82 0,33
Change for the period
2016-2017
59,88 -0,50 -2,11 29,42 0,49
* Equity according to financial accounting data.
** Net assets of investment and non-public pension funds.
Source: Main indicators of the activities of Ukrainian banks. Available at:
http://www.bank.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=36807&cat_id=36798; Quarterly and annual reviews
of the ICIs’ market Available at: http://www.uaib.com.ua, Results of the activities of insurance companies. Availa-
ble at: http://nfp.gov.ua, Information about the condition and development of non-public pension provision
in Ukraine. Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua/content/stan-i-rozvitok-npz.html
The biggest decapitalization took place
in the banking sector during 2014-2015, when
the aggregated sector’s equity reduced by 88.9
billion UAH. In the segment of insurance com-
panies large-scale decapitalization was ob-
served in 2015 (equity reduction by 6.8 billion
UAH). Still, compared to banks, the scope of
decapitalization is explained both by specific
financial relationships in the insurance sphere,
which cannot be characterized as fixed liabili-
ties and have a relatively weak level of devel-
opment. Decapitalization in the NPFs’ sector
had limited scope and time frame: reduction of
the value of net assets was observed in 2015
and amounted to 0,5 bln UAH or 20% of net
assets. In the ICIs’ sector, decapitalization
touched only the open and interval ICIs, net
assets of which reduced by 87 million UAH.
Decapitalization in Ukrainian financial
sector in 2014 - 2015 took place in the follow-
ing main forms.
1. Reduction of equity due to impair-
ment of debt financial instruments. The deci-
sive impact on the bank decapitalization is
associated with the losses due to the impair-
ment of loans and other debt. Due to the dete-
riorating financial condition of borrowers, ex-
penditures on the banks’ provisions in 2014-
2015 were 172 billion UAH or 22% of the
book value of the credits as of early 2014.
Against the background of reduced volumes
of crediting, this meant that the provisions
were created due to the deterioration of the
borrowers’ financial condition.
2. Reduction of equity due to the im-
pairment of capital financial instruments. The
impact of the impairment of capital financial
instruments (due to lower capital stock index)
1 of the financial sector was moderate, because
the proportion of shares in the assets of finan-
cial corporations was less than 2.5% (41 bil-
lion UAH). The exceptions are the ICIs (in-
vestment in shares at the beginning of 2014
amounted to 22.6 billion USD or 14.6% of
assets), insurance companies (in early 2014
investments in shares amounted to 17.8 billion
UAH (27% of assets) and NPFs (278.4 million
1 In 2014, the PFTS index grew by 28.75% and in the first
half of 2015 it decreased by 21%.
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UAH or 13.3% of assets at the beginning of
2014). Unlike the countries with well-
developed non-bank financial sector, which is
sensitive to fluctuations on the stock market,
in Ukraine the factor of shares depreciation
had no significant impact on the volume and
dynamics of the financial sector decapitaliza-
tion.
3. Reduction of capital due to the ter-
mination of financial institutions. During
2014-2015 the number of banks with banking
license decreased from 180 to 117, the number
of ICIs in Ukraine decreased from 1250 to
1147, the number of asset management com-
panies (AMCs) declined from 347 to 313, the
number of NPFs decreased from 81 to 72, and
the number of insurance companies decreased
from 407 to 361.
The effects of decapitalization of the
financial sector on Ukrainian economy
The large scale decapitalization of the
financial sector (especially in banking and in-
surance subsectors) and the slowdown in the
growth of hybrid capital of the non-bank fi-
nancial institutions weakened the overall sec-
tor’s functional capacity to transform savings
into investments. The consequences of the
decapitalization were the loss of confidence to
the financial institutions and reduction of the
level of monetization in the economy from
53.2% to 40,5% of GDP (Tab. 10).
Table 10
The effects of decapitalization of the financial sector for Ukrainian economy,
billion UAH
Indicator
0
1
.0
1
.2
0
1
4
0
1
.0
1
.2
0
1
5
0
1
.0
1
.2
0
1
6
0
1
.0
1
.2
0
1
7
0
1
.0
1
.2
0
1
8
Change
b
ln
U
A
H
%
Capital, including: 451,1 456,9 450,1 429,2 489,8 38,7 8,6
Banks 232,1 213,5 173,6 162,1 188,2 -43,9 -18,9
Market type ІСІs 9,3 10,9 10,6 8,0 8,5 -0,8 -8,4
Venture type ІСІs 168,2 195,4 236,0 230,1 263,3 95,1 56,6
Insurance companies 39,4 34,6 27,8 26,9 27,3 -12,1 -30,8
Non-public pension funds 2,1 2,5 2,0 2,1 2,5 0,4 17,4
Monetization, % 59,5 60,2 50,0 46,2 40,5
Interest rate on hryvnia credits, % 15,2 16,7 21,4 17,7 15,1
Total financing of the real sector including 778,8 871,5 854,6 883,3 872,6 93,8 5,8
Hryvnia credits to economic units 454,2 412,9 338,6 417,4 455,1 0,9 -18,1
Loans to legal entities in hard currency 237,7 365,9 449,2 404,7 374,8 137,1 45,7
Loans to legal entities in hard currency* 29,7 23,2 18,7 14,9 13,4 -16,4 -29,2
Shares 43,6 55,2 39,1 37,0 28,3 -15,3 7,5
Bonds 43,3 37,4 27,7 24,2 14,3 -29,0 8,5
Source: Quarterly and annual reviews of the ICIs’ market. Available at:
http://www.uaib.com.ua/files/articles/1954/21/Q1%202014_PR.xls; Main indicators of the activities of Ukraini-
an banks. Available at: http://www.bank.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=36807&cat_id=36798; Results
of the activities of the insurance companies. Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua, Information on the condition and
development of non-public pension provision in Ukraine. Available at: http://nfp.gov.ua/content/stan-i-rozvitok-
npz.html
Although the nominal volumes of the
financial sector’s investments in the real sec-
tor increased by 94 billion UAH or by 12%
(from 778.8 to 872.6 billion UAH), but the
growth rate lagged significantly behind the
pace of prices’ growth. Given the fact that al-
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most the entire increase in the financial sec-
tor’s investments in the real economy oc-
curred only "on paper" as a result of the reval-
uation of foreign currency loans by 270 billion
UAH, the real volume of investments even
decreased during 2014-2017. At the same
time, the volume of financial institutions’ in-
vestments in government bonds substantially
increased by 498 UAH bln, which suggests
the strengthening of the "crowding out effect"
in 2014-2015.
In 2014-2017, nominal GDP, under the
influence of the inflation, grew much faster
than the supply of financial resources (money
supply). At the same time, the companies’ ac-
counts payable grew faster, than the GDP,
which means deterioration in the settlements
situation in the sector of non-financial corpo-
rations (Fig. 3). While nominal money supply
during this period increased by 257%, the
companies’ accounts payable grew by 53%.
There was a partial replacement of the market
forms of companies financing with surrogate
forms, such as accounts payable, a significant
part of which are overdue.
The growth of the nominal amount of
the financial sector’s claims to the NFCs in
2014-2016 on 105 billion UAH (Tab. 11) or
by 11.2%, did not exceed the rate of inflation
and was a result of the revaluation of nomi-
nated in foreign currency liabilities. NFCs’
sector did not receive additional resources (as-
sets), but its liabilities grew. The stoppage of
the credit and fund mechanisms of the inter-
sectoral redistribution of resources seriously
complicated the possibility of increasing the
productive capital (assets) funding (be it bor-
rowings or share issues). The dynamics of
productive capital acquired all signs of a
downward trend: while in 2011-2013 the an-
nual growth of NFCs’ total assets, adjusted to
the inflation rate, was 6% per year, in 2014-
2016 it was lower, than 2% per year.
Table 11
The level of development of Ukrainian financial sector in 2009-2016, bln UAH
Indicator 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
GDP 1079.3 1300.0 1404.7 1465.2 1566.7 1988.5 2385.4
Gross savings 197.6 208.4 198.6 152.6 164.1 334.9 457.5
Money supply М2 596.8 681.8 771.1 906.2 955.3 969.8 1102.7
Increase in liabilities,
financial sector
82.7 73.4 87.6 95.1 1.2 40.4 79.3
Financial sector’s claims
to NFCs, including
680.8 776.1 846.8 937.8 1051.7 1040.5 1042.9
Banks’ loans to NFCs 501.0 575.5 605.4 691.9 778.8 787.8 822.1
NFCs’ accounts payable 1771.7 1910.7 2089.4 1664.3 1627.9 2148.3 2547.4
NFCs’ assets 3736.0 4273.3 4994.5 4824.1 5768.7 7612.3 9688.0
Source: Review of financial corporations. Available at: http://www.bank.gov.ua/files/3.1-Monetary_
Statistics.xls; Current liabilities and provisions by economic activities. Available at: http://ukrstat.gov.ua/;
Annual reports by NSSMC. Available at: http://www.nssmc.gov.ua/activities/annual/
Formal signs of the Ukrainian financial
sector functional weakening were the drop of
the level of monetization, followed by several
other important indicators, reflecting the sec-
tor’s role in the accumulation and reallocation
of financial resources.
Reduction of the monetization level
from 61.9% of GDP in 2013 to 48.9% of
GDP in 2015 (Tab. 12) meant a weakening of
the role of the financial sector in the financ-
ing of productive capital (assets in the NFCs
sector), which growth rates considerably de-
creased, compared to the pre-war period.
Along with it, the ratio of total bank credit to
GDP declined (from 65.8% in 2013 to 54.1%
in 2015), as well as the ratio of bank credit to
domestic credit (from 80% in 2013 to 70.9%
in 2015). This means, that the role of the
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banking system in the transformation of sav-
ings into investments considerably weak-
ened. Another sign of the growing role of
substitute sources against the background of
the weakened financial sector was the in-
crease in the ratio of total NFSs’ accounts
payable to total domestic credit: from 2.1 in
2013 to 2.94 in 2015. Also significantly
weakened the role of the stock market in fi-
nancing the NFCs and in overall economic
development, reflected in a steep decrease: in
2015 the ratio of capitalization of the listing
companies to GDP fell from 29.2% to 3.1%
of GDP (almost 10 times).
Table 12
Key development ratios of Ukrainian financial sector in 2010-2016, %
Indicators 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Rate of monetization 55,3 52,4 54,9 61,8 61,0 48,8 46,2
Ratio of bank credit to domestic credit 90,0 87,6 81,4 77,3 70,0 67,9 61,5
Ratio of aggregate bank credit to GDP 71,7 65,2 60,0 63,6 67,5 51,5 43,2
Ratio of aggregate NFCs’ accounts payable
to aggregate domestic credit
228,8 225,6 247,9 178,6 153,8 210,0 247,0
Ratio of the capitalization of the listing
companies to GDP
15,9 13,7 19,7 23,7 29,2 3,2 0,8
Ratio of cash in circulation to money aggre-
gate M1
63,1 61,9 62,9 62,9 65,0 59,9 59,3
Development level of the financial sector
(Ft )
18,2 18,2 17,0 19,4 18,2 13,7 10,8
Intensity of savings accumulation through
the financial sector (RF)
41,9 35,2 44,1 62,3 0,7 12,1 17,3
Source: calculated by V. Zymovets, based on data, presented in Table 10.
To estimate the role of the financial
sector, the R.Vogel and S.Buser’s cash ratio
has also been used [17] (ratio of cash in cir-
culation to monetary aggregate M1), which
shows the relationship between the demand
for cash and non-cash money, and is a meas-
ure of confidence in the banking sector under
financial stability. During 2014-2016 this
ratio droped from 61.9% in the early 2014 to
59.3 % in the end of 2016 (Tab.12). Under
financial instability and depreciation of the
national currency, the stability of this ratio
was a result of extremely low demand for
cash in national currency.
Also, to estimate the financial corpora-
tions (FC) sector’s level of development we
analyzed the dynamics of the coefficient of
development degree of the financial sector Ft
(ratio of total financial claims to non-
financial corporations to productive capital
(NFCs sector’s assets). During 2010-2013
this ratio had a trend to slow growth (from
18.2% to 19.4%). In 2014, the increase in this
coefficient was related to the revaluation of
foreign currency debt, and in the end of 2016
its level has dropped to 10.8%. This means,
that only less than one tenth of the NFCs sec-
tor’s assets are financed through the financial
sector in Ukraine.
To evaluate the intensity of the savings
accumulation through the financial sector we
apply coefficient RF derived by dividing the
growth of financial sector liabilities by gross
savings for the period (year). That indicator
allows to evaluate the intensity of transfor-
mation of savings into sources of funding as-
sets of the financial sector, namely – to estab-
lish, which part of the total savings for a spe-
cific period of time (a year) goes to the finan-
cial sector to create the financial resources
supply. In 2010-2012 the ratio’s average
amount exceded 40%, in 2013 – 60%. This
means, that during this period more than half
of gross savings was accumulated by financial
sector, which created relevant sources of the
productive funding. After the outbreak of hos-
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tilities, the situation radically changed: the
ratio dropped to 0,7% in 2014 and slightly
upped in 2016 ( to 17.3%). This means a
three-fold reduction of the savers’ confidence
in the financial sector.
We underline the following key nega-
tive effects of Ukrainian financial sector’s of
the decapitalization in 2014 – 2016:
1. Lack of equity to restore confidence
in the financial institutions. To overcome the
total distrust to the financial institutions (on
the part of the society as a whole and house-
holds as the main donor) the latter need a
large-scale recapitalization to demonstrate the
financial institutions owners’ willingness to
share risks with investors throughout the re-
vival of the national financial system. The
amounts, required for recapitalization, exceed
the volume of the capital, that was lost during
2014-2015. Although the total decapitalization
in 2014-2016 in nominal terms amounted to
21.9 billion UAH or 4.8% of the capital at the
beginning of the period, by expanding them
by sectors and taking into account the devalu-
ation of the hryvnia, we can estimate the
shortage of capital in the financial sector as
200 billion UAH.
2. The decline in the lending of the real
sector of economy. During 2014-2016 the vol-
ume of lending in national currency fell by 37
billion UAH, or by 8.1%, while lending in
foreign currency decreased by 15 billion USD
(equivalent). There was also a reduction in the
real sector funding by bonds: total volume of
investments in bonds decreased by 19 billion
UAH (44.2%). According to the National Se-
curities and Stock Market Commission, in
2014 the volume of registered bond issues
amounted to 39 billion UAH, in 2015 – 11.4
billion, in 2016 – 5,5 billion [9]. Lack of de-
mand has led to lower activity on the market
of primary placement of corporate bonds: in
2016 the volume of issue decreased by 10%,
in 2015 the decrease exceeded 50%. The main
reason of the lending decline was the lack of
capital in the financial institutions to cover the
existing credit risks.
3.The rise of the interest rates, caused
by the growth of the deficit of financial re-
sources, available on the domestic market, and
the failure of the financial sector to increase
their supply. The interest rate on loans in the
national currency increased from 17.5% per
annum at the beginning of 2014 to 21.4% per
annum in the end of 2015. Deficit of free fi-
nancial resources was the result not only of
the growing distrust in the financial sector, but
also of the increasing direct lending of the
government by NBU’s purchasing the gov-
ernment bonds. During 2014 -2016 the vol-
ume of NBU’s investments in government
bonds rose by 235 billion UAH, which, com-
bined with the capital deficit in the financial
sector, estimated at 200 billion UAH, allows
to make a conclusion about a strengthening of
the "crowding-out effect" and the prevalence
of fiscal factors in the decapitalization of the
financial sector.
4. Stoppage of the equity based funding
formation. Before early 2014 any mechanisms
of indirect equity based financing of the real
economy were not developed. During 2014-
2016 the development of non-bank financial
institutions (NPFs and ICIs) slowed, as well as
the growth of their net assets. During the peri-
od mentioned, the volume of the financial sec-
tor’s investments in the real sector companies’
shares were insignificant in macroeconomic
terms (less than 3% of GDP) and dropped
from 43.6 to 37.0 billion UAH, and did not
play any significant role in the real sector fi-
nancing through equity-based instruments.
Conclusions
In 2014-2015 a "squeezing" of Ukraini-
an financial sector took place, i.e. a reduction
of its resource base and its role as intermedi-
ary in the transformation of savings into pro-
ductive capital. The outward signs of those
tendencies were: demonetization of the econ-
omy, namely – the fall of the indicator of "fi-
nancial depth" from 61.9 to 48.8%, and an
almost three-fold reduction in the intensity of
the savings accumulation through the financial
sector. The latter, along with the influence of
other factors (especially – the material assets’
losses of capital as a result of loss of part of
the national territory and due to the non-cyclic
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drop in GDP), led to a slowdown in the
growth of productive capital. Considering the
influence of an inflation (in terms of cost-of-
living index – CPI) [18] during the years of
war, we estimate the reduction of Ukrainian
productive capital by at least 5%, or by 250
billion UAH in the prices of 2013.
The fundamental reasons of the decapi-
talization of Ukrainian financial sector were
the low rate of net savings and disinvestment
during 2010-2013. In early 2014 investment
risks, caused by the accumulation of macro-
financial imbalances, reached a critically high
level. Public awareness of the impossibility to
overcome the existing imbalances by means of
traditional tools of the financial policy in the
face of growing political risks, including
those, related to the annexation of the Crimea
and the beginning of military conflict in the
Southeast of Ukraine, led to a bank panic, cap-
ital flight from the country and termination of
many banks and other financial institutions.
The liquidity crisis, combined with the poor
financial condition of the real sector, led to
massive losses and decapitalization of the fi-
nancial sector, which will have long-term
negative consequences for the economy of
Ukraine.
The lack of capital in financial institu-
tions will remain a major obstacle to restoring
the financing of the real economy through
debt and equity instruments and complicate
the use of market mechanisms for economic
recovery in Ukraine. To solve the problem of
the financial system undercapitalization will
be possible only under the condition of the
crucial macrofinancial imbalances' abolition
and reduction of investment and credit risks
through:
- an elimination of general govern-
ment debt burden by the implementation of
the long-term public expenses prudential lim-
its;
- strengthening the capital require-
ments for financial institutions, in the first
place – those, concerned creation of the man-
datory countercyclical capital buffers;
- mitigating the financial risks and
negative impact of non-financial corporations
insolvency on financial institutions perfor-
mance by increasing enterprises’ management
responsibility for frauds, as well as shortening
the length of legal procedures in case of bank-
ruptcy of enterprises.
In particular, special attention should be
paid to further research of the decapitalization
problem, concerning the financial sector capi-
tal shortages forecasting, studying channels
and mechanisms of theirs transfer to other sec-
tors of economy and the development of ap-
propriate macroprudential policy tools to pre-
vent such shortages in the future.
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Владислав Вікторович Зимовець,
д-р екон. наук
E-mail: zymovets_vlad@ukr.net;
Наталія Михайлівна Шелудько,
д-р екон. наук, проф.
ДУ «Інститут економіки та прогнозування НАН України»
01011, Україна, Київ, вул. Панаса Мирного, 26
E-mail: n.sheludko@ukr.net
ДЕКАПІТАЛІЗАЦІЯ ФІНАНСОВОГО СЕКТОРУ:
НАСЛІДКИ ДЛЯ ЕКОНОМІКИ УКРАЇНИ
У статті висвітлено концептуальні основи декапіталізації фінансового сектору як
явища, сформованого об'єктивними та суб'єктивними чинниками. Обґрунтовано поняття
«декапіталізація фінансового сектору» як абсолютне зниження номінальних обсягів влас-
ного та прирівняних до нього капіталу фінансових інститутів усіх типів без урахування ка-
піталу центрального банку країни.
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Встановлено, що основними причинами декапіталізації приватних пенсійних фондів
стали різке скорочення надходжень пенсійних внесків через погіршення фінансового стану
компаній реального сектору, які фінансують програми недержавного пенсійного забезпе-
чення, а також збиткова діяльність, зумовлена знеціненням портфелів акцій та втратами
коштів у непластопроможних банках.
Обґрунтовано, що визначальними факторами декапіталізації страхових компаній бу-
ли зменшення зареєстрованого статутного капіталу у зв'язку зі скороченням кількості ліце-
нзованих страхових компаній, погіршення фінансових результатів діяльності через зни-
ження попиту на страхові послуги, зумовлене загальноекономічним спадом, знецінення
фінансових активів (акцій) і втрата коштів у неплатоспроможних банках, що призвело до
зростання кількості збиткових страхових компаній.
Визначено, що основними причинами декапіталізації інститутів спільного інвесту-
вання (ІСІ) були вилучення капіталу учасниками з ІСІ відкритого типу, яке співпало в часі з
банківською панікою (початок 2014 р.); знецінення фінансових активів і втрата коштів у
неплатоспроможних банках; призупинення обігу цінних паперів емітентів, розташованих
на окупованих територіях (АР Крим та зона ООС).
Виявлено, що основними негативними наслідками декапіталізації фінансового секто-
ру України протягом 2014-2016 рр. стали: недостатність власного капіталу для відновлення
довіри до фінансових інститутів, скорочення обсягів боргового фінансування компаній ре-
альної економіки, підвищення рівня відсоткових ставок через дефіцит вільних фінансових
ресурсів на внутрішньому ринку і неспроможністю фінансового сектору збільшити їх про-
позицію.
Надано оцінку наслідкам декапіталізації фінансового сектору для економіки України.
Підкреслено, що дефіцит капіталу фінансових інститутів залишатиметься однією з основ-
них перешкод для відновлення обсягів боргового та пайового фінансування реального сек-
тору економіки, що ускладнить запуск ринкових механізмів економічного пожвавлення в
Україні.
Ключові слова: капітал, банки, фінансовий сектор, фінансові корпорації.
JEL: E210, E620, G320
Владислав Викторович Зимовец,
д-р экон. наук
E-mail: zymovets_vlad@ukr.net;
Наталия Михайловна Шелудько,
д-р экон. наук, проф.
ГУ «Институт экономики и прогнозирования НАН Украины»
01011, Украина, Киев, ул. Панаса Мирного, 26
E-mail: n.sheludko@ukr.net
ДЕКАПИТАЛИЗАЦИЯ ФИНАНСОВОГО СЕКТОРА:
ПОСЛЕДСТВИЯ ДЛЯ ЭКОНОМИКИ УКРАИНЫ
В статье раскрываются концептуальные основы декапитализации финансового секто-
ра как явления, сформированного объективными и субъективными факторами. Обосновано
понятие «декапитализация финансового сектора» как абсолютное сокращение номиналь-
ной стоимости собственного капитала и эквивалента капитала для финансовых учреждений
всех типов за вычетом капитала центрального банка страны.
Установлено, что основными причинами декапитализации пенсионных фондов ста-
ли резкое сокращение пенсионных взносов вследствие ухудшения финансового состояния
компаний реального сектора, финансирующих программы дополнительного пенсионного
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обеспечения, а также убытков, связанных с обесценением портфелей акций и неплатеже-
способностью банков.
Обосновано, что определяющими факторами декапитализации страховых компаний
стали сокращение их зарегистрированного уставного капитала за счет уменьшения количе-
ства лицензированных страховых компаний, ухудшение финансовых показателей из-за
снижения спроса на страховые услуги, вызванного общим экономическим спадом, обесце-
нения финансовых активов (акций) и потери средств в неплатежеспособных банках, что
привело к увеличению количества убыточных страховых компаний.
Определено, что основными причинами декапитализации институтов совместного
инвестирования (ИСИ) были вывод капитала участниками ИСИ открытого типа, совпав-
ший по времени с банковской паникой (начало 2014 г.), ухудшение качества финансовых
активов и потеря средств в неплатежеспособных банках, приостановление обращения цен-
ных бумаг эмитентов, находящихся на оккупированных территориях (АР Крым и зона
ООС).
Установлено, что основными негативными последствиями декапитализации финан-
сового сектора Украины в 2014-2016 гг. являются: отсутствие доверия к финансовым ин-
ститутам, снижение долгового финансирования реальной экономики, повышение процент-
ных ставок из-за растущего дефицита свободных финансовых ресурсов на внутреннем
рынке и неспособность финансового сектора увеличить их предложение.
Дана оценка последствиям декапитализации финансового сектора для экономики
Украины. Подчеркивается, что нехватка капитала в финансовых институтах останется од-
ним из основных препятствий на пути восстановления паевого и долгового финансирова-
ния реального сектора, что усложнит запуск рыночных механизмов восстановления эконо-
мики в Украине.
Ключевые слова: капитал, банки, финансовый сектор, финансовые корпорации.
JEL: E210, E620, G320
Cite this publication:
Zymovets V. V., Shelud`ko N. M. Decapitalization of financial sector: consequences
for the economy of Ukraine. Economy of Industry. 2018. № 3 (83). pp. 21-42. doi:
http://doi.org/10.15407/econindustry2018.03.021
Zymovets, V. V., & Shelud`ko, N. M. (2018). Decapitalization of financial sector:
consequences for the economy of Ukraine. Econ. promisl., 3 (83), pp. 21-42.
doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/econindustry2018.03.021
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