The National Bank of Ukraine has raised the key policy rate to 14.5% per annum. The NBU increased rates on overnight certificates of deposit, three-month certificates of deposit, and refinancing loans by 1 percentage point – to 14.5%, 17%, and 17.5%, respectively. This decision a... #BankDepositsinUkraine #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #KeyPolicyRate #nbu
How did Ukraine spend the nearly $42B in international financial assistance it received last year? Last year, Ukraine received about $42B in financial support. In addition, the country received more than $3.5B by placing foreign currency government bonds. The money, according to People’s Depu... #CurrencyMarket #financialaidforUkraine #imf #internationalReserves #nbu #UkraineBudget2024
The National Bank continues easing currency restrictions: What has changed? Changes that ease currency restrictions in three areas came into force on December 21. This easing will support domestic producers and improve the conditions for doing business in Ukraine. At the same... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencyRestrictions #Energoatom #financeUkraine #nbu
How will the hryvnia exchange rate change against the dollar in 2025? The dollar exchange rate will grow moderately during 2025, the ICU investment company predicts. It is noted that the hryvnia exchange rate now depends entirely on the NBU’s vision of its optimal... #CurrencyMarket #dollarexchangerate #financeUkraine #foreignexchangemarket #Hryvnia #nbu
Ukraine’s international reserves increased by 9.1% in November to $39.92B. The National Bank explains that this dynamic is due, on the one hand, to significant volumes received from international partners and, on the other hand, to a decrease in the volume of net currency sa... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #financeUkraine #internationalReserves #nbu #OVDP #UkraineDebtPayment
The hryvnia continues to weaken under the National Bank’s control. Last week, the National Bank kept the intervention volume below this year’s average weekly figure. It allowed the hryvnia exchange rate to weaken slightly. The market’s total foreign excha... #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #Hryvnia #hryvniaexchangerate #nbu
The hryvnia’s fate: Experts provide their forecasts. Bankers, households, and financial analysts expect the dollar to the hryvnia exchange rate to rise over the next 12 months. Banks predict that the exchange rate will be ₴44.92 per $1, which is higher ... #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #hryvniaexchangerate #HryvniaRating #nbu
Ukrainians have bought the equivalent of 33% of Ukraine’s international aid for their savings. The purchase of foreign currency by the Ukrainian population has increased by 250% compared to the previous year. In the last 12 months, the population bought foreign currency worth $10.6B, including ... #BohdanDanylyshyn #CurrencyLiberalization #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #financeUkraine #nbu
Ukrainians are increasingly buying foreign currency. The NBU had to increase interventions to a three-month high. According to ICU analysts, demand for foreign currency among Ukrainians remains at a very high level and is forcing the NBU to sell large volumes of it from its international reserves to maintain the ... #currencyexchange #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #nbu
The necessary conditions for further discount rate reductions in Ukraine are no longer present. Thanks to favorable macro-financial trends, the National Bank of Ukraine has reduced the discount rate from 25% to 13% in one year. However, the NBU does not currently see further prerequisites for lo... #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #InflationinUkraine #InterestRate #nbu #UkraineEconomy
Due to debt repayment, Ukraine’s international reserves decreased by 2.9% to $37.9B. As noted by the National Bank, June’s dynamics were caused by the NBU’s currency interventions to cover the market’s currency deficit and smooth out exchange rate fluctuations and th... #CurrencyMarket #internationalReserves #nbu #ukrainedebt #UkraineDebtRepayment #UkraineFacility #worldbank
What does the NBU think about the new easing of currency restrictions and the return of currency extortion? NBU Chairman Andriy Pyshnyi said: “Our decisions are fully in line with our declared strategy of easing currency restrictions, transitioning to greater exchange rate flexibility and returning to... #AndriiPyshnyi #CurrencyLiberalization #CurrencyMarket #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #nbu
The NBU has introduced its largest package of measures to ease FX restrictions. Most changes came into effect on May 4, but the ability to repatriate new dividends will begin on May 13, 2024. It is emphasized that these changes aim to improve the conditions for conducting busines... #AndriiPyshnyi #CurrencyLiberalization #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #nbu
Ukraine increases its international reserves to a new record. Ukraine’s international reserves grew by 18% in March and amounted to $43.8B on April 1, the National Bank reported. The regulator explained that the increase is due to the volume of income from... #CurrencyMarket #imf #NationalBankReserves #nbu #UkraineBudget2024 #UkraineFacility #worldbank
The NBU predicts the stabilization of Ukraine’s FX market. The National Bank has reported that the upcoming arrival of international financial assistance should contribute to maintaining the stability of Ukraine’s foreign exchange market. As noted in th... #CurrencyMarket #financialaidforUkraine #nbu #UkraineBudget2024 #UkraineFacility
The currency deficit in Ukraine has increased by 100%. The hryvnia fell to record-low levels but later stabilized. Last week, the National Bank increased the sale of dollars from reserves in connection with the growing currency deficit. The dollar rate in... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #financeUkraine #hryvniaexchangerate #nbu
During the war, the exodus of foreign exchange from Ukraine increased by 100%. The NBU plans to gradually abolish currency restrictions, but at the same time, asks businesses to return foreign exchange revenues on time and in full and avoid fictitious import schemes, said NBU Ch... #AndriiPyshnyi #CurrencyMarket #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #nbu
Here are the reasons for the slowdown of inflation in Ukraine and new risks for an opposite trend. Several factors influenced the slowdown in inflation in January of this year. For example, aggregate demand has decreased significantly – by 25% compared to before the full-scale invasion, said ... #BohdanDanylyshyn #CurrencyMarket #InflationinUkraine #nbu #UkraineEconomy
Analysts believe that the Ukrainian economy performed surprisingly well in 2023. As noted in the Atlantic Council, in the fall of 2022 Ukraine was forced to print money, and in December 2022, inflation rose to 27%. However, the budget deficit was offset with $40B of international ... #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #UkraineBudget2024 #UkraineEconomy #Ukraineinternationalreserves
The NBU points to achievements in the financial market during the war. The National Bank has maintained exchange rate stability and switched to managed exchange rate flexibility, which will strengthen the economy and financial system’s adaptability and minimize the... #AndriiPyshnyi #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #nbu #UkraineBudget2024
In November, the NBU reduced interventions by 27% and canceled all restrictions on the sale of cash currency. The net sale of dollars by the National Bank in November, the second month after the transition from a fixed exchange rate regime to managed flexibility, decreased from $3.34B in October to $2.45B in ... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencyRestrictions #CurrencySale #financeUkraine #nbu
Ukraine’s international reserves decreased for the third month in a row. In October, they fell by 1.9% to $38.97B, NBU data shows. The bank explains that the dynamics last month were caused by the NBU’s interventions and the country’s debt payments in foreign c... #CurrencyMarket #financeUkraine #NationalBankReserves #nbu #UkraineInternationalReservs
The NBU is introducing a flexible dollar exchange rate. As the National Bank explained, “The regulator will carefully monitor the situation in the foreign exchange market and remain a key player. To provide stability, the NBU will compensate for the ... #CurrencyMarket #dollarexchangerate #financeUkraine #Hryvnia #nbu
In one week, the National Bank sold almost $436M of reserves on the interbank market. During the week from June 19 to 23, the NBU sold $435.82M and bought $8.29M on the interbank foreign exchange market, reported the bank. Last week, the NBU sold $446.76M, and a week earlier, only $292... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #nbu #NBUInternationalReserves
Ukrainians are buying significantly less foreign currency in banks. In April 2023, the population of Ukraine sold $1.3B in cash and non-cash funds to commercial banks and bought $1.5B. According to National Bank data, the net purchase of currency amounted to $224.2M. ... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #foreigncurrency #nbu
Ukrainians are buying less foreign currency from banks. In March 2023, the population of Ukraine sold $1.388B in cash and non-cash currency to commercial banks and bought $1.812.3B. The net currency purchase amounted to $424.3M. Thus, according to the Nati... #currencyexchange #CurrencyMarket #UkraineBuysCurrency
For the first time during the war, Ukrainians bought more foreign currency than they sold. The amount of currency purchased by the Ukrainian population in August exceeded the amount sold by $106.9M. According to data from the national bank, the domestic net positive purchase total in August... #CurrencyMarket #foreigncurrency #nbu
The NBU has reduced the sale of currency from reserves. From July 11 to 15, the net currency sale by the National Bank of Ukraine amounted to $580.7M. Volumes of weekly intervention by the NBU have not been at levels so low since the beginning of May. In t... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #nbu #UkraineBanking
The National Bank of Ukraine has sold $9B in 2022. After the National Bank’s record sale of a currency on the market last week, the volume decreased slightly and amounted to $826M. Since the beginning of the year, the bank has sold $9.4B. A week... #CurrencyMarket #CurrencySale #nbu
The National Bank of Ukraine bought $20M on the interbank market. For the first time since the beginning of the year, the National Bank bought $20M on the interbank market, while the regulator sold $321M during the week of January 17-21. The regulator made the enti... #CurrencyMarket #interbankmarket #nbu
With the hryvnia flirting with strengthening above 27 to the dollar, the central bank intervened last week, buying $375 million in foreign exchange. This was almost 10 times the amount bought by the National Bank of Ukraine in the first week of June. On the supply side, high commodity prices – notably iron and grain – are flooding Ukraine with dol... #CurrencyMarket #DollarDemand #Hryvnia #nbu
