Ukraine will start selling military bonds abroad. According to the WSJ, Ukraine wants to sell military bonds to foreign individuals, mainly from Western Europe, as the government continues to seek ways to finance its military spending. According to a... #BondSalesUkraine #financeUkraine #nbu #ukrainebonds #UkraineEconomy
The NBU has eased currency restrictions to improve the FX market’s operation. As National Bank reported, starting from 16 September 2023, when calculating the amount of cash foreign currency that can be sold in the FX market, a bank or a nonbank financial institution will take ... #currencyexchange #CurrencyRestrictions #CurrencySale #financeUkraine #nbu
The yield on deposits fell, and loans in the national currency became cheaper. The average rate in August for new consumer hryvnia deposits decreased to 12.2% per annum and for businesses to 13.4%, according to data from the National Bank. At the same time, the average interest ... #BankLoans #financeUkraine #LoanPortfolio #nbu #UkraineDeposits
The National Bank has cut the key policy rate to 20%. On September 14, the board of the National Bank decided to reduce the discount rate to 20%, announced the board chairman of the NBU, Andriy Pyshnyy. He noted that the further slowdown of inflation and... #AndriiPyshnyi #financeUkraine #KeyPolicyRate #nbu
Since the war began, bonds tied to Ukraine’s GDP have increased in value to the highest level. The price of Ukraine’s GDP warrants, according to the results of the September 8 auction, increased by approximately two percentage points – up to 49.2% of the nominal value. This is the h... #AnthonyBlinken #BondsUkraine #financeUkraine #UkraineEconomy #UkraineSecurities
Ukraine will start raising taxes on banks first if the IMF requests higher taxes. As of today, the Ministry of Finance does not foresee changes in the tax system anytime soon, and there is no need to talk about tax increases, Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko said at the EBA Glo... #financeUkraine #imf #SerhiyMarchenko #TaxesinUkraine #UkrainianBanks
Ukraine is preparing to turn a state bank into a development bank. The goal is to turn one of the state banks into a development bank, similar to KfW in Germany, said the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Danylo Hetmantsev, during the Yalta European Str... #DanyloHetmantsev #financeUkraine #KfW #UkraineRecovery #UkraineStateBanks
Due to reduced international aid, Ukraine’s international reserves decreased by 3.2% in August. As of September 1, the aid volume was about $40.4B, dropping by $1.4B in August, the National Bank reported on Wednesday. The reason for the decrease was the NBU’s FX sales to cover the differen... #financeUkraine #financialaidforUkraine #foreignexchangemarket #internationalReserves #nbu
The NBU expands the list of reserve bonds and reported on income from the sale of securities. Starting September 11, the National Bank will increase the list of benchmark bonds of the domestic state loan, through which banks can cover part of their required reserves, the regulator said in a st... #Bonds #financeUkraine #nbu #OVDPselling #ukrainebonds
Ukraine’s state budget deficit increased to almost UAH 131B in August. The state budget deficit in August 2023 amounted to UAH 130.7B, compared to UAH 107.6B in July, the Ministry of Finance reported. It is noted that cash expenditures in the state budget increased signi... #financeUkraine #financialaidforUkraine #UkraineBudget #UkraineBudgetDeficit #UkraineIncome
The Ministry of Finance has announced the main financial indicators for the 2024-2026 budgets. The Ministry of Finance has published instructions for preparing budget requests for the next year. The document suggests setting the dollar exchange rate at UAH 41.4 to $1 for the 2024 state budget p... #dollarexchangerate #financeUkraine #InflationinUkraine #SalaryUkraine #StateBudgetUkraine
Ukraine has fulfilled another IMF beacon: the new Financial Sector Development Strategy. This blueprint for developing the financial sector during the war envisages inflation at a level of less than 15% and possible deviations of the hryvnia to dollar cash rate from the official rate belo... #financeUkraine #imf #IMFStructuralBeacons
Ukraine has eased currency restrictions to strengthen the national currency. As of August 29, banks are now allowed to sell non-cash foreign currency without confirming the grounds or obligations for such a transaction, the NBU reported. The National Bank specified that this a... #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #nbu
The upward trend in bank deposit rates declined due to the NBU’s reduced key policy rate. Ukrainian banks began to retreat from record high deposit rates on consumer deposits after the NBU beganits discount rate reduction cycle in July, when it was reduced from 25% to 22%, according to ind... #Depositrates #financeUkraine #nbu
National Bank assets increased by 17%, and profit reached UAH 43B. The result of the NBU’s activities, according to the results of the first half of the year, was a net profit of more than UAH 43B ($1.17B), and the bank’s assets increased by 17% to UAH 2.... #financeUkraine #internationalReserves #nbu #NBUassets
The popularity of microcredits is growing in Ukraine. As well, there is a decrease in the average loan amount, reported Opendatabot. In the first half of the year, 3.8 million microloans were issued for a total of UAH 18.4B. For comparison, in 2022 Ukrai... #financeUkraine #LoansUkraine #MicroCrediting
Ukraine is in the top five world leaders for contactless payments. For the past five years, Ukraine has consistently been among the top ten countries regarding the number of NFC payments. As noted by Mastercard, the share of payments with smartphones and NFC devices ... #DigitalizationOfUkraine #financeUkraine #mastercard #nbu #NFCpayments
The yield on deposits in Ukraine is growing, and lending is recovering. In the second quarter, due to the NBU’s measures, banks will continue to increase interest rates on time deposits. According to the bank, on average, the return on a three-month individual depos... #CreditPortfolio #DepositsinUkraineBanks #financeUkraine #LendingInUkraine #nbu
The National Bank is easing currency restrictions in Ukraine. The NBU introduced additional measures to prevent unproductive outflow of capital from Ukraine and ensure the foreign exchange market’s stability. Thus, from August 12, 2023, the NBU will introd... #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #nbu
The key policy rate in Ukraine will decrease to 18%. Seven members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank expect a reduction in the discount rate to 18%-19% at the end of 2023. They are convinced that considering the expected decrease in ... #financeUkraine #KeyPolicyRate #nbu
Interest rates on deposits in the national currency are rising in Ukraine. In June, after the NBU announced the possibility of lowering the key policy rate, rates on retail deposits of various maturities continued to grow. The weighted average rate on new consumer deposits i... #DepositsInterestRate #financeUkraine #HryvniaDeposits #nbu
In July, the Ministry of Finance collected $5.3B in revenue. Since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Finance has gathered more than $28B for the budget, and in July alone, $5.3B. Grant funds compose about 25% of the total financial assistance. Among th... #financeUkraine #financialaidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #UkraineBudgetRevenue
The National Bank cuts the key policy rate to 22%. The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has cut the key policy rate from 25% to 22%, effective 28 July, 2023. Rapid disinflation and sustained stability in FX market conditions has enabled the centr... #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #InflationinUkraine #KeyPolicyRate #nbu
Ukrainian banks plan to ease lending for businesses and the public. In the third quarter of this year, banks plan to ease lending conditions for small and medium-sized businesses, reported the National Bank of Ukraine. The central bank made this decision in response t... #financeUkraine #LendingInUkraine #LoansUkraine #nbu
The EBRD expands cooperation with Ukraine’s KredoBank. The EBRD is supporting food security and other critical industries in wartime Ukraine with a new risk-sharing agreement for KredoBank and opening a TFP limit for guarantees and cash advances to enhanc... #ebrd #financeUkraine #KredoBank
The number of loans taken out with state guarantees doubled in June. In June, banks issued 2,116 loans under the state guarantee program on a portfolio basis, which is over 100%, or 1,129 loans, more than in May, reported the Ministry of Finance. The volume of issued l... #CreditPortfolio #financeUkraine #LoansUkraine
The National Bank says that currency restrictions are losing their effectiveness and restraining economic activity. According to Volodymyr Lepushynskyi, director of the Department of Monetary Policy of the NBU, the disadvantages of this mechanism has begun to exceed the advantages. He added that fixing the exchange... #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #nbu
Ukraine’s Eurobonds value reached their maximum since the beginning of the war. The value of the Eurobonds of Ukraine jumped by an average of 13% last week and reached the maximum values since the beginning of the full-scale war. According to Western analysts, the quotations of d... #EuroBondsUkraine #financeUkraine #GDPWarrantsUkraine
Ukrainian banks break five-year profitability records. During the first five months of the year Ukrainian banks earned UAH 53.59B, 120% more than the corresponding period in 2021, according to Opendatabot. It is noted that this is the best result in at le... #financeUkraine #nbu #PrivatBank #UkraineBanksProfits #UkrainianBanks
The NBU approves a strategy for easing FX restrictions and will transition to more exchange rate flexibility. “The strategy consists of three main components. These are the easing of currency restrictions, the transition to greater flexibility of the exchange rate, and the return to the principles of inflatio... #financeUkraine #nbu #NBUstrategy #UkraineEconomicStrategy
Ukrainian banks noticed a UAH 1.4B increase in consumer deposits last month. The total amount of May deposits by individuals in Ukrainian banks increased by UAH 1.4B and, as of June 1, amounted to UAH 1.0687T, reported the press service of the Guarantee Fund. It is noted that ... #BankDepositsinUkraine #financeUkraine #HryvniaDeposits #nbu #UkraineBankingSystem
Ukraine has eased currency restrictions to allow businesses to pay foreign loans. In particular, the National Bank allowed resident borrowers to transfer funds abroad to repay certain categories of external credits and loans. The NBU also determined that residents can carry out sim... #CurrencyRestrictions #financeUkraine #foreignloans #nbu #UkraineEconomy
The NBU leaves its key policy rate unchanged at 25%. Since June of last year, it has remained at 25% per annum. The National Bank believes that this decision will support the attractiveness of hryvnia instruments, contribute to the foreign exchange mark... #financeUkraine #foreignexchangemarket #KeyPolicyRate #nbu
Ukraine has not printed money for budgetary needs for the last six months. According to the head of the NBU, Andriy Pishnyi, since the beginning of 2023 the government was able to avoid this practice because it has been able to attract 50% more funds through the domestic deb... #AndriyPishnyi #financeUkraine #Hryvnia #nbu #NBUprintedMoney
Bankers positively assess the further development of Ukraine’s financial sector, but corruption has returned as a main risk. A majority of the top managers of banks and non-bank financial institutions surveyed by the NBU reported an improvement in the state of the financial sector over the last six months, with 57% against ... #BusinessExpectation #financeUkraine #FinancialSectorUkraine #nbu #UkrainianBanking
Coronavirus hospitalizations jumped 25% in November, over October Coronavirus hospitalizations jumped 25% in November, over October, to 63,958 cases, reports Ukraine’s National Health Service. On Friday, deaths hit a record level — 285. New cases reported are ... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Due to Thursday afternoon’s ice storm, flights in and out of Kyiv’s two airports were disrupted through noon on Friday. Due to Thursday afternoon’s ice storm, flights in and out of Kyiv’s two airports were disrupted through noon on Friday. With Kyiv Sikorsky closed for several hours, Wizz Air cancelled two flights to G... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Ukraine’s offering of dollar Eurobonds was three times oversubscribed Friday, Ukraine’s offering of dollar Eurobonds was three times oversubscribed Friday, causing the Finance Ministry to raise the final volume by 20%, to $600 million, and to push the rate down to 6.2%, one ful... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Tomorrow’s auction of government hryvnia bonds should draw more foreign buyers, analysts predict Tomorrow’s auction of government hryvnia bonds should draw more foreign buyers, analysts predict. Last week saw an uptick of foreign buying — $79 million – breaking a fall in foreign holdings si... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
The World Bank approved Friday night a $300 million loan to help “prevent The World Bank approved Friday night a $300 million loan to help “prevent around 1 million Ukrainians from falling into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors r... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
The EBRD’s new loans to Ukraine projects will hit €750-850 million this year, The EBRD’s new loans to Ukraine projects will hit €750-850 million this year, a ‘big increase’ over the average of the last four years, Matteo Patrone, EBRD managing director for Eastern Europe and th... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Ukraine is to receive $250 million in US military aid under a defense spending bill approved Friday by the U.S. Senate in a 84-13 vote. Ukraine is to receive $250 million in US military aid under a defense spending bill approved Friday by the U.S. Senate in a 84-13 vote. Earlier in the week, the House of Representatives approved the b... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Ukraine plans to transfer all of the nation’s seaports to concessions or private ownership by 2025 Ukraine plans to transfer all of the nation’s seaports to concessions or private ownership by 2025, Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krikliy told an online international investment conference Friday.... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
By 2022, the government plans to reach concession agreements for highways, airports, rail stations and other infrastructure facilities By 2022, the government plans to reach concession agreements for highways, airports, rail stations and other infrastructure facilities, Prime Minister Shmygal said at the conference, which was organiz... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
In the first half of next year, the State Property Fund plans to start the privatization of the United Mining and Chemical Company, the First Kyiv Machine-Building Plant (formerly Bolshevik), and stakes in six regional power companies, In the first half of next year, the State Property Fund plans to start the privatization of the United Mining and Chemical Company, the First Kyiv Machine-Building Plant (formerly Bolshevik), and stak... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Ukraine will receive – free of charge — enough Covid-19 vaccines to vaccination 4 million people this spring Ukraine will receive – free of charge — enough Covid-19 vaccines to vaccination 4 million people this spring, Ukraine’s Chief Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko wrote Saturday on Facebook. In additi... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
FlightGlobal, a US-based news site FlightGlobal, a US-based news site, recalls that last year, Ukraine’s Antonov sought to seize five An-124 cargo jets operated by Volga-Dnepr because the Russian air cargo company performed life extens... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank is extending at 9-year, €10 million loan to the Novopechersk School to build a new campus at Kyiv’s UNIT.City The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank is extending at 9-year, €10 million loan to the Novopechersk School to build a new campus at Kyiv’s UNIT.City, nearly tripling enrolment to 1,200 students. Zoy... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Parents of Kyiv’s French school are voting through Wednesday on an 18-month, €12 million project to build a 6,000 square meter unified campus at Unit.City. Parents of Kyiv’s French school are voting through Wednesday on an 18-month, €12 million project to build a 6,000 square meter unified campus at Unit.City. The project for Lycée Français Anne de Kiev ... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
Ukrainians’ spending on foreign travel dropped in half this year, to $4.5 billion from $8.7 billion Ukrainians’ spending on foreign travel dropped in half this year, to $4.5 billion from $8.7 billion, Dmitry Sologub, a deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, told reporters yesterday. “It wa... #bondrates #covid19ukraine #economyofukraine #financeUkraine #lockdowninukraine #Milovanov #news #tretyak #ubn #ukrainetoday
