The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has taken part in forming a new team of top managers of PrivatBank (Dnipro), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"A new professional group of specialists has been hired to manage the bank. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development took part in the process," the president said on Monday in his video address commenting on the transfer of PrivatBank to state ownership.