OREANDA-NEWS. In 2012 the number of PrivatBank’s clients increased twofold. In December, 2012 2.6 million people used the bank’s services daily, that was the national banking service record, while in December, 2011 this number ranged 1.3 million.

Nearly two-thirds of all the PrivatBank’s clients obtain the banking services at the bank’s outlets. Every day, almost 900 thousand people withdraw cash and use other services via ATMs, and over 630 thousand people use banking services via self-service terminals.

Also over 640 thousand people in Ukraine pay for their purchases via PrivatBank’s POS-terminals’ network daily. In 2012 the number of clients who regularly use their banking cards to make the retail payments increased by a quarter of a million.

PrivatBank is the largest Ukrainian bank and the leader of the national retail banking market. Today the bank’s network includes 3,407 branches and outlets, 8,026 ATMs, 4,512 self-service terminals and 54,486 POS-terminals. International banking group PrivatBank serves over 22 million corporate clients and individuals in 12 countries including Russia, Georgia, Latvia, Italy, Portugal, China, Great Britain, Cyprus, Germany, Spain and Kazakhstan.

According to the research of the retail banking market held by the GFK Ukraine company, in the 3rd quarter of 2012 over 44.6% of Ukrainians using banking services were the clients of PrivatBank. Moreover, every third citizen recognized PrivatBank as his lead bank.