The article deals with advantages and shortcomings of the use of the methods of market assessment of bank capital under the conditions of asymmetric information. The author analyzes the differences between the market approach to assessing the capital value and the approach used by the National Bank of Ukraine and justifies the advisability to balance the regulator’s approach and market techniques of the assessment of the value of bank capital.

Keywords:capitalization, bank, share, market value, value assessment techniques

The article deals with the main preconditions and tendencies of the transformation processes characteristic for the modern stage of the development of Ukraine’s banking sector (exit of the European banks and their replacement with Ukrainian and Russian ones, consolidation of the banking capital, re-orientation to domestic resources, and credit stagnation). The authors emphasize the key structural and functional changes, which will define (restrict) the development of Ukraine’s banking sector in 2014. The article focuses on the importance of ensuring a stimulating influence of Ukraine’s banking sector on this country’s economic development in conditions of a conflict between the vectors of economic integration.

Keywords:banks, risks, recession, stagnation of the credit market