KIEV, Nov. 12 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will support Ukrainian banks amid the financial crisis, EBRD banker for financial sector projects Alexander Pavlov said at the third International Adam Smith Institute Ukrainian Banking Forum in Kiev on Wednesday.

"Our role is to support sound players during this period and support the system as much as possible so that it can recover in the shortest period possible. We will support our current clients: today these are 13 banks in the country which account for about 40% of the [banking] system's assets," he said.