Privat24 Internet customers bought $1.4 million online and sold $400,000

Privat24 Internet customers bought $1.4 million online and sold $400,000 on Thursday, the first day of the new foreign exchange rules. Similarly, they bought €245,000 and sold €131,000, Maria Strashko, head of Foreign Currency for PrivatBank, tells Interfax-Ukraine. At peak times the bank’s system processed 20 currency purchase and sale operations per second. Similarly, Oleg Gorokhovsky, co-founder of Monobank, writes on Facebook that his customers opened 6,000 foreign currency ‘cards,’ instead of the usual 1,000.