Exporter funding: Pivdenny Bank offers

“Ukrainian exporters face limited access to financial instruments; however, Pivdenny Bank finds ways to provide loans to them,” reported Andrii Bukin, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors, during the Exporter Summit 2025.  

Pivdenny has many years of experience of providing loans both to local companies and exporters. Correspondingly, the Bank offers all the possible types of funding to large and medium-sized businesses to cover everything from short-term needs to long-term investment projects.

Andrii Bukin says that today Pivdenny offers a simple and useful instrument to exporters instead of international factoring, which is currently unavailable in Ukraine:

“We have a great number of successful cases under our belt of providing loans to exporters, with those loans being of high demand predominantly in trade and industry. We have the product Trade Finance, which presupposes unsecured export financing covering up to 90% of contract price. At the same time, the majority of banks only provide such funding, once the goods have already been dispatched under the contract; thus they only provide coverage for the final stage of operation, i.e. payment by the buyer. In our turn, we are ready to provide export financing before the actual loading. Such cases are a bit more challenging but we are perfectly capable of handling them”.

The Bank pays a special attention to investment lending, which is our priority. Pivdenny understands that one must first invest in manufacturing processes before launching any export operations.

“Today we have more than 30% of investment projects in our portfolio. We have vast experience of working with investments and we are ready and willing to take risks. The duration of such projects depends on the industry sector and may stretch up to 6-7 years depending on the investment object. In addition, we collaborate with a European business partner – Latvian bank RIB, which allows us to offer opportunities to our clients for business funding abroad. Our goal is to make difficult tasks easier for our clients,” emphasised Andrii Bukin.

It is worth remanding that Pivdenny Bank has become an official partner of Exporter Summit 2025 organised by Forbes Ukraine. Within the framework of the summit, leading market players shared strategies and tools that allow them not only to maintain but also to actively expand their export opportunities.