KIEV, Feb. 17 – The Ukrainian banking system, other than PrivatBank, will begin to show a profit this year, the National Bank of Ukraine predicted.

The key factors that influence this in 2017 will be the reduction of sending to reserves and active growth of interest income thanks to the increase in crediting the real economic sector.

The regulator said that in 2016 the highest loss of the banking sector was seen – UAH 159.4 billion. This was linked to the fact that PrivatBank declared UAH 135.3 billion of loss.