ANALYSIS OF THE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF FORMING THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER

Introduction. In the conditions of a full-scale war, the destructive influence increases the number of challenges and threats to the country's financial and economic development, which necessitates the necessary ongoing monitoring of its indicators, which is the basis for the study of the conditions for the formation of an international financial center in Ukraine. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the current realities of the macroeconomic and social development of Ukraine in the conditions of war, to study trends in the functioning of financial and stock markets, the national banking system, and the market of non-banking financial services to identify trends in the financial and economic development of Ukraine in the context of the formation of an international financial center; identification of key problems and selected promising directions for economic recovery and improvement of the national financial market. Materials and methods. The research materials are statistical and analytical data of the National Bank of Ukraine, the National Commission that carried out state regulation of financial services markets, and the Ministry of Finance. The methodological basis of the research is the methods of schematic and graphic analysis, tabular systematisation. Results. The article examines the National Economic Strategy project until 2030 regarding the creation of an international financial center in Ukraine, the composition of potential participants, and the target model of the association. An objective assessment of Ukraine's macroeconomic situation and social indicators during martial law, the development of the national financial sector, the banking system of Ukraine, the market of non-banking financial services, and the stock market was analyzed and given. The author found that the full-scale military invasion led to big structural changes in the dynamics of Ukraine's development: a fall in GDP, an increase in the country's import dependence, a decrease in the amount of financing of innovative activities and direct foreign investments, an increase in public debt and a budget deficit. The article studies the development trends of the national banking system concerning the main indicators determined by the NBU. It characterizes the changes in the tax code regarding the taxation of banks' surplus profits. It evaluates the development trends of participants in the non-banking financial market, namely indicators of the activity of financial companies and lessors, pawnshops, credit unions, and insurance companies. The author determines the functioning state of Ukraine's stock market in the militarist economy and investigates its main indicators of activity: volumes of trades for financial instruments and volumes of exchange contracts with securities on organized and secondary markets. The article characterizes the social component of the country's development in terms of the main indicators of the socio-economic state. The author highlights the main problems of Ukraine's financial and economic situation, proposing promising directions for the recovery of the economy and the development of the national financial market in the context of forming an international financial center. Discussion. In the study, we managed to analyze the macroeconomic background of the development of the national financial market, identify the main problems of Ukraine's financial and economic situation, and expand the set of measures to improve it. The perspective of further scientific research is an experimental verification of the effectiveness of the proposed measures to create and ensure the conditions for forming an international financial center in Ukraine.