Clearstream, which operates securities settlement systems with links to over 50 national markets worldwide, sees the first quarter of 2019 as a ‘window’ to open foreign investor access to Ukraine’s domestic government bonds,

Clearstream, which operates securities settlement systems with links to over 50 national markets worldwide, sees the first quarter of 2019 as a ‘window’ to open foreign investor access to Ukraine’s domestic government bonds, Jan Willems, a vice president of Clearstream said at the ICU Forum in Odesa. Since 2017, Clearstream, a unit of Deutsche Börse, has been negotiating with the National Bank of Ukraine to establish a link between the two entities. The goal is to simplify foreign investors’ access to Ukrainian government bonds. Foreign investors will not need to go to Ukraine and open an account with the bank if they have an account with the global Clearstream depository, Interfax-Ukraine reports. They will be able to buy Ukrainian securities directly.