Pivdenny Bank announces a tender for the selection of an audit firm to provide mandatory financial statement audit services

Pivdenny Bank invites audit firms to participate in the tender for the selection of audit entities that may be appointed by the bank to provide mandatory financial statement audit services.

Audit entities are invited to participate in the tender if they:

• meet the requirements of the Law of Ukraine "On Audit of Financial Statements and Auditing Activities" and the Law of Ukraine "On Joint-Stock Companies";
• are registered in the Register, including those whose information has been entered into a separate section of the Register, namely the register of audit entities authorised to conduct mandatory audits of financial statements of public interest entities;
• for which, during the previous annual reporting period, the amount of remuneration from each of the public interest entities to which mandatory financial statement audit services were provided during that period did not exceed 15 per cent of the total income from the provision of audit services;
• and which have no restrictions related to the duration of providing services to the Bank.

The purpose of the tender is to select an audit entity to provide the following services:

• audit and provision of an opinion regarding the Bank’s annual financial statements for 2026, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, the requirements of current legislation, and the regulatory acts of the NBU and the NSSMC (taking into account current legislative requirements regarding the XBRL Taxonomy);
• verification of additional information regarding the requirements of other legislative and regulatory acts in accordance with the requirements of the Regulation on the procedure for the Bank to submit an audit report to the National Bank of Ukraine based on the results of the annual audit of financial statements, approved by Resolution of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine No. 90 dated 02.08.2018, for 2026;
• conducting the first stage of the Bank’s resilience assessment, namely the analysis of asset quality and the acceptability of collateral for credit operations as of 01 January 2027 in accordance with the requirements of NBU Resolution No. 141 dated 22.12.2017.

Financial statements and other public information of JOINT STOCK COMPANY JOINT STOCK BANK PIVDENNY are available on the Bank’s official website https://bank.com.ua. Additional information about the Bank’s activities may be provided upon the request of a bidder.

The deadline for accepting tender proposals: 18 September 2026.

Tender proposals received by the Bank after the submission deadline will not be considered. A bidder has the right to amend or withdraw their proposal before the submission deadline.

Please send documents to the following email address: nataliya.zozulya@pivdenny.ua

Contact person: Director of the Internal Audit Department Nataliia Zozulia, (048) 738 57 08.

The successful bidder will be notified once the competition results have been approved by the Bank’s Supervisory Board.

All bidders will be notified of the tender results by email.

The criteria for participation in the tender, the criteria for the selection of audit entities, as well as the information and documents required for participation in the tender, are determined by the current Procedure for conducting a tender for the selection of audit entities to provide mandatory audit services for the financial statements of PUBLIC JOINT-STOCK COMPANY JOINT-STOCK BANK PIVDENNY, including the annexes thereto, the full version of which is available on the Bank's official website: https://bank.com.ua.