Following the results of a transparent and open competition, the Supervisory Board of PrivatBank has elected Yevhen Zahiraiev as a Management Board Member for Corporate and Small and Medium Business.
Yevhen Zahiraiev joined the PrivatBank team in 2020 and became a Management Board Member for Small and Medium Business two years later. Since 2024, when the bank resumed working with corporate clients, this business segment has also been within his scope of responsibility.
During Yevhen's tenure as a management board member, PrivatBank successfully created a corporate client lending unit, built effective processes, and launched a number of modern services for the corporate segment, agribusiness, leasing, and merchant acquiring.
Since then, the team in this area has almost doubled, attracting leading market experts.
“This appointment confirms the sustainability of the bank's strategy and the high appraisal of Yevhen Zahiraiev's professional results. In the last year alone, PrivatBank's loan portfolio has grown to 50 billion hryvnias. I am confident that under the leadership of Mr. Yevhen, the bank's positions will continue to strengthen,” says PrivatBank Management Board Chairman, Mikael Blorknert.
In 2025, the volume of loans provided by PrivatBank to corporate business increased by 2.5 times — from 3.8 billion UAH in 2024 to 9.5 billion UAH for 9 months of 2025. The bank currently serves 35-40% of all clients in this segment in the country. It is expected that the corporate lending portfolio will reach 16-17 billion UAH by the end of the year.
Furthermore, PrivatBank is a leader in terms of growth rates for financial support to small and medium business in Ukraine and integrated service for corporate micro- and small business, entrepreneurs, and legal entities. It holds leading positions in the field of electronic services for business and the infrastructure of cashless payments in Ukraine — according to Nilson Report data, PrivatBank has climbed 3 positions in the global ranking of the largest acquirers over the past year.
The bank has also launched a number of innovative solutions in the areas of acquiring, lending to small and medium business (SMB), and card operations.
“Over the past few years, through the efforts of our team, we have achieved significant progress and do not plan to stop there. Our ambitious goal for the next three to five years is to double the amount of corporate business lending and continue to hold leading positions in the pace of small and medium business lending. Especially in lending to those entrepreneurs who are currently operating in frontline regions under extremely difficult conditions. Therefore, we are expanding cooperation with international institutions, improving our products, and focusing on working even more actively with businesses — to be for them not just a financial institution, but a reliable partner,” noted Yevhen Zahiraiev.
