The leaders of the majority of banks and non-banking financial companies surveyed by the National Bank noted an improvement in the state of the financial sector over the past six months (57% instead of 3% in November 2022), and the share of respondents who expect deterioration in the next six months decreased from 51% to 3%. This is stated in the results of the "

For the second consecutive survey, respondents improve their assessments of the resilience of the financial sector to significant negative events. The share of respondents who rated the sustainability of the financial sector as high or very high has increased again. The overall balance of responses reached a record high since the start of the survey in May 2018.

We also changed in the direction of improving the assessment of the overall level of risk in the financial sector - the share of respondents who considered it high or very high decreased from 83% to 58%.

Survey participants continue to improve their own assessments of the current state of the financial sector - the balance of answers (+11%) turned positive for the first time since the start of a full-scale invasion.

The key risk for the financial sector, according to the results of the survey, remains the risk of war with Russia, but the list of main risks has undergone significant changes.. The factor of corruption, the activities of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary returned to second place. Also, the top five key risks included the risks of fraud and cyber threats, the risks of the level of economic activity and the value of assets and the quality of collateral..

It is interesting that the factors of the level of inflation and the exchange rate have shifted from the leaders towards the end of the twenty greatest risks.

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Recall that the share of non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking sector increased by 0.5% over the month - from 38.8% on April 1 to 39.3% on May 1.