In January 2022, the bank plans to launch a SWIFT payment service to a broker in the United States to buy/sell securities on the US stock market in collaboration with a partner company, as stated by Oleksandr Shcherbakha, the Director of the Bank's Retail Sales and Development Department.
[7] The controlling shareholder of FUIB is SCM Finance, which is associated with Rinat Akhmetov and holds 92.24% of the bank's shares.
[2] FUIB has been a member of various organizations, including the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) since 1993.
[13][14] Leonid Avrashov had previously headed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly's Saint Petersburg office, as noted by Mustafa Nayyem in 2007.
[15] However, on September 2, 2014, Manafort claimed that Avrashov was associated with the International Republican Institute.