The DFC helps Piraeus Bank to unlock $25M in new bank lending to Ukrainian SMEs. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Ukraine’s economy, creating jobs and providing much-needed goods and services. Because of the war, commercial lending in Ukraine has becom... #agroUkraine #DFC #IoannisKyriakopoulos #JohnDidiuk #LoansforBusiness #PiraeusBank #PiraeusBankUkraine
Ukrainian businesses have already received loans sufficient to launch 200 MW of generation, and the Ministry of Energy is confident Ukraine will add 1 GW of distributed generation. According to the NBU, from June to September the majority of borrowed funds were for the purchase and installation of gas-piston cogeneration plants (96 MW), the purchase of diesel and gasoline genera... #ElectricityGeneration #EnergyDecentralization #EnergyRestore #energyukraine #LoansforBusiness
Banks in Ukraine predict the growth of business lending in Ukraine. Commercial interest rates will no longer decrease, but this will not stop growth in lending, industry representatives shared. In particular, Sense Bank plans for their loan portfolio to grow by 150% t... #LoanPortfolio #LoansforBusiness #PiraeusBank #SenseBank #Taskombank #UkrainianBanks
The state program of preferential business lending positively affects the economy but needs improvement. As of January 1, 2024, the state’s debt to banks under the 5-7-9% Available Loans program amounted to ₴7.1B, and barring changes, by the end of 2024 this figure may reach ₴11.5B, according to th... #5-7-9loanprogram #AffordableLoans #BankLoans #financeUkraine #LoansforBusiness #UkraineEconomy
Banks have issued ₴4B in loans to restore Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but medium-sized businesses refuse to construct generation capacity and are preparing for downtime. Since the beginning of June, banks have received 1,356 loan applications for energy infrastructure restoration projects totaling ₴40.1B. The NBU confirmed the approval of applications totaling ₴3.97B ... #AndriiPyshnyi #DTEK #EnergyDecentralization #EnergyRestore #LoansforBusiness #nbu #UkraineEnergy
Ukraine’s largest producer of pet food wants to attract €40M from the EBRD to build a second plant in Lithuania. On September 11, the EBRD will consider the possibility of granting a €40M loan to the Ukrainian Kormotech Group for the construction of a second plant to produce pet food in Lithuania. The group̵... #ebrd #FeedProduction #investments #Kormotech #Lithuania #LoansforBusiness #PetFood
The NBU: Profitable Ukrainian companies do not use bank loans. Bank loans are not utilized by operationally profitable companies, which account for about 66% of their total operating profits, NBU data shows. In 2023, 8.6% of companies that borrowed money from Ukr... #BankLoans #LoansforBusiness #nbu #UkraineCompaniesProfit #ukrainianbusiness
The NBU: Demand for bank loans is growing in Ukraine. Banks expect an increase in demand for all types of corporate and retail loans and loan portfolio volumes, NBU data shows. Most banks will increase their corporate and retail portfolios, though their ... #BankLoans #CreditPortfolio #financeUkraine #LoansforBusiness #nbu
Ukrainian farmers have received ₴62.9B in loans since the beginning of the year, and banks have received ₴38B in loan applications for energy infrastructure restoration projects. Since the start of the year, 9,075 farmers have received ₴62.9B in bank loans. Farmers from the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions received the largest loans under various programs.... #AffordableLoans #AndriiPyshnyi #BusinessDevelopment #LoansforBusiness #SupportBusiness #Ukrainianfarmers
The NBU insists on further narrowing the state’s 5-7-9% preferential lending program. The Affordable Loans 5-7-9% state program, despite recent changes that narrowed the financing limit of working capital to ₴5M, is still not sufficiently focused on helping businesses that need it, com... #5-7-9loanprogram #AffordableLoans #financeUkraine #LoansforBusiness #nbu
Despite the war, Piraeus Bank continues to show long-term dedication to Ukraine by supporting the rebuilding of energy infrastructure. Piraeus Bank joined 17 leading financial institutions by signing a memorandum in Kyiv on bank lending for rebuilding energy infrastructure projects in the war-torn country. This pivotal step reaffirms... #EnergyRestore #IoannisKyriakopoulos #LoansforBusiness #PiraeusBank #PiraeusBankUkraine #YannisKyriakopoulos
Spain provides a €50M soft loan to support the private sector of Ukraine and will help UZ to adapt its trains to EU standards. Spain will allocate a soft loan for €50M and an additional grant of €1M in partnership with the IFC to support the stability of the private sector of Ukraine, the Minister of Economy of Spain Carlos C... #CarlosCuerpo #EuroTrack #LoansforBusiness #Renfe #Spain #UkrainianRailways
The largest banks in Ukraine have agreed on preferential lending to restore energy infrastructure; they will finance projects up to €25M. During a banking forum, 17 of Ukraine’s largest banks signed a memorandum on preferential lending for energy infrastructure restoration projects. The memorandum was signed by banks whose net ass... #EnergyRestore #Lending #LoansforBusiness #PiraeusBank #PiraeusBankUkraine #RenewableEnergy #UkraineEnergy #UkrainianBanks
Ukraine’s banking regulator names the key risks to financial stability in the banking market. Banks in Ukraine have maintained financial stability and their clients’ trust while increasing lending and their participation in financing the budget deficit, the NBU reported. The regulator states t... #ConsumerLending #financeUkraine #LoansforBusiness #nbu #UkraineBankingSystem #UkraineEconomy
Bankers predict an interest rate decrease for business loans in Ukraine. Following the NBU’s reduction of the discount rate to 13% and the introduction of its lending strategy, banks will be able to significantly reduce interest rates on loans for enterprises in strategic ... #CreditPortfolio #financeUkraine #GlobusBank #InterestRate #LoansforBusiness #URC2024
The State Bank of Ukraine will provide exporters with loans of up to ₴10M covered by ECA insurance. PrivatBank and the Ukrainian Export Credit Agency (ECA) will finance exporting producers to purchase raw materials and equipment. The ECA will insure the bank’s risk for loans granted to fund th... #BusinessSupport #ECA #KredoBank #LoansforBusiness #PrivatBank
The largest pharmaceutical company in Ukraine received €12M from Ukrainian and Latvian banks to construct a plant in Spain. Thanks to the West Bridge program, Ukrainian businesses continue to develop in EU countries. Another of the program’s significant projects is financing a new pharmaceutical plant for the largest Ukrai... #BusinessDevelopment #Farmak #LoansforBusiness #PharmaceuticalCompany #PivdennyWestBridge #ukrainianbusiness
The EBRD will provide ProCredit Bank with a €70M guarantee for lending to Ukrainian businesses. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide guarantees for Ukrainian ProCredit Bank sufficient to support €70M in new lending for small and medium-sized enterprises. The EBRD gua... #ebrd #FinancialGuarantee #GreenTechnologies #LoansforBusiness #ProCreditBank #ukrainianbusiness
Ukraine will soon launch a mechanism to insure investment loans against war risks. The Export Credit Agency will soon approve an investment credit insurance product, said Ruslan Hashev, head of the ECA board, at the My Export conference. Among the factors that determine the cost of ... #ECA #imf #InsuranceUkraine #InvestmentCredit #LoansforBusiness #MilitaryRiskInsurance
The EIB will provide up to €30M to support Ukrainian business: what other support programs are available to Ukraine? The Government of Ukraine has allowed two Ukrainian banks to borrow up to €30M from the European Investment Bank to further support Ukrainian small and medium-sized businesses by improving preferentia... #BusinessSupport #CzechRepublic #DenysShmyhal #EIB #ForestsOfUkraine #LoansforBusiness
Businesses in high military risk zones receive 20% of available loans. Every fifth loan under the state program Affordable Loans was issued to a business operating in a zone of high military risk. Since the beginning of the year, loans worth ₴27.3B have been issued to al... #AffordableLoans #LoansforBusiness #MilitaryRisk #SupportBusiness
The EBRD provides a €200M guarantee for business lending. The EBRD has provided Oschadbank with a limit for the portfolio mechanism for risk distribution of €50M. This will generate an additional €200M in new financing for Ukraine’s private sector. The EBRD ... #BusinessSupport #CreditRisk #ebrd #LendingInUkraine #LoansforBusiness #oschadbank
Ukraine’s partners provide tens of millions of euros in guarantees for Ukrainian business lending. The Polish bank BGK and Ukrainian Kredobank signed an addendum to an agreement. Kredobank will receive an additional €10M in EC guarantees for lending to Ukrainian entrepreneurs. These funds will incr... #BGK #ebrd #KredoBank #LendingProgram #LoansforBusiness #SupportBusiness
Banker’s 2024 lending strategy for small and medium-sized businesses. This year, new loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may make up to 70% of the total volume of loans issued by banks, predicts Globus Bank top manager Oksana Shulga. She believes that the... #AffordableLoansUkraine #GlobusBank #LoansforBusiness #OksanaShulga
Ukrainian businesses go into standby mode, taking fewer loans and increasing reserves to record levels. According to the NBU, in 2023 the volume of loans granted to legal entities decreased by 2% to ₴757.5B. If compared with the pre-war period, the reduction is 10 times as large. In 2022, corporate borr... #LoansforBusiness #nbu #UkraineBusinessActivity #бізнесвУкраїні
The EBRD will provide a €50M guarantee to a Ukrainian bank to support capital investments in technology and equipment modernization. Credit Agricole Ukraine signed a €50M risk sharing agreement with the EBRD as part of the Sustainability and Livelihoods program. The bank noted that this will allow it to support capital investments ... #CreditAgricole #ebrd #LoansforBusiness
A Ukrainian banks receives a $40M guarantee from the DFC for small and medium-sized business lending. Raiffeisen Bank received a $40M loan portfolio guarantee from the DFC. It allows the bank to provide loans of up to $50M to small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine over the next eight years. The ... #DFC #LoansforBusiness #OleksandrPisaruk #RaiffeisenBankUkraine
Another Ukrainian bank, with the support of the German government, is launching a new grant program for businesses. Ukrgasbank and German financial group DSIK have agreed on the joint implementation of the Access to Financing and Support for the Sustainability of MSMEs in Ukraine 2 project. Financing and grant supp... #DSIK #GrantsForBusiness #LoansforBusiness #Ukrgasbank #бізнесвУкраїні
Ukrainian business receive constant support to keep the economy alive. According to the Ministry of Economy, another 323 Ukrainians will receive UAH 77M worth of microgrants from the state for starting and developing businesses under the Own Business program. Since the b... #GrantsForBusiness #LoansforBusiness #SupportBusiness #ukrainianbusiness
A Ukrainian product manufacturer enters the EU market, and Poland is the first step. A producer of ice cream and frozen semi-finished products, Three Bears, has begun its expansion into Europe. For this purpose, the company took an unsecured loan for UAH 210M from Raiffeisen Bank unde... #EUmarket #LoansforBusiness #ThreeBears #ukrainianbusiness
American financial institution DFC allocates $250M in loans for small businesses and promises another $1B in investment. The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is mobilizing $250M to develop Ukrainian small and medium size businesses. The funds will be transferred to banks that will in turn lend to U... #DFC #InvestmentsinUkraine #LoansforBusiness #ScottNathan
Ukrainian business will be able to borrow billions from the US federal government. The United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC), an agency of the US federal government, is ready to lend money to Ukrainian businesses within the framework of individual projects in amounts r... #DFC #LoansforBusiness #ukrainianbusiness
Ukraine will receive a €7.4M loan for small and medium-sized businesses. Ukraine will receive €7.4M from the Credit Institution for Reconstruction (KfW) for preferential lending to small and medium-sized enterprises, reported the Ministry of Finance. The Government of Ukra... #LoansforBusiness #SmallBusinessUkraine #Ukrainecredit
The Ministry of Economy recorded a record demand for 5-7-9% loans. Since May, there has been a record number of requests from businesses for soft loans under the state program Affordable Loans 5-7-9%, which indicates the desire of entrepreneurs to resume business as... #AffordableLoans #LoansforBusiness #UkraineBanking
The Ministry of Finance expands lending under the program “5-7-9%”. The Ministry of Finance is ready to expand preferential lending to entrepreneurs under the terms of the updated State Program “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%”, said Serhiy Marchenko. “The ... #579loans #LendingProgram #LoansforBusiness #UkraineLoans
Last week, Ukraine issued affordable loans valued at UAH 1.27 bln. The State Program “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%”, authorized banks to issue 456 loans totaling UAH 1.27 bln ($47 mln), announced the Ministry of Finance. Entrepreneurs received UAH 8.8 bln for ... #AffordableLoans #LoanMarketUkraine #Loans #LoansforBusiness
Terms for the program “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%” changes. Individuals and entrepreneurs with an annual income of up to UAH 50 mln ($1.9 mln), will be able to receive soft loans at a rate of 12% per annum up to UAH 1 mln ($38,000) without collateral (the loan... #5-7-9loanprogram #LoansforBusiness #SmallBusinessUkraine
Banks loans to small and medium-sized businesses amounted to UAH 6.1 bln ($228 mln). Banks issued 2,112 loans under state guarantees on a portfolio basis in support of micro, small and medium-sized businesses. As of October 1, the total amount of loans was valued at UAH 6.1 billion. I... #BankingUkraine #LoansforBusiness #SmallBusinessUkraine
The state program “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%” continues to grow . Just in a week, the program issued 480 loans totaling UAH 1.2 billion, reported gov.ua. Since the start of “5-7-9%”, representatives of micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have re... #AffordableLoansUkraine #LoansforBusiness #LoansUkraine
Banks have issued $2 billion worth of loans to 20,000 businesses in the first 18 months of the ‘Affordable Loans 5-7-9%’ program, Prime Minister Shmygal writes on Facebook. Loans up to $112,000 are extended to businesses with revenues under $3.7 million. #5-7-9loanprogram #LoansforBusiness #UkraineBanks
