In the current year, the harvest of sunflower seed in Ukraine will total nearly 13.36 million tons, down by 5.7% YoY, while the harvest of soybeans will grow by 5.1%, to 4.703 million tons, reported the Ukrainian Food Export Board (UFEB). It was noted that the harvest of rapeseed was forecast at the level of…
Pasha Bank Georgia and Pasha Yatirim Bankasi A.S., subsidiary banks of Azerbaijan’s Pasha Bank OJSC, improved the financial performance in 2018, Chief Financial Administrator, member of the Bank’s board Bahruz Naghiyev said. Naghiyev made the remarks in Baku at the press conference dedicated to the outcome of the subsidiaries’ activity in 2018. Pasha Bank Georgia’s…
Estonia-founded international money transfer company Transferwise has closed a secondary funding round of $292 million, or EUR 261.1 million. Investors used the Transferwise for Business platform when settling the financing. Transferwise is now valued at $3.5 billion, and the latest funding round brings the total raised by the company in both primary and secondary funding…
Sergo Stepanyan and Samvel Stepanyan, Russia-based Armenian brothers and successful businessmen, have invested nearly $210,000 (100,000,000 drams) in the Armenian province of Kotayk, the Ministry of Diaspora reported. The two Armenians have funded the construction of a 3 km road in the Nor Yerznka community of the province. The inauguration of the road will take…
Ukraine International Airlines takes the 4th place in the listing of the most punctual international carriers operating into Beijing Capital International Airport as of April. In April, UIA operated 30 non-stop flights Kyiv-Beijing-Kyiv, with at least 26 of them – on time. The high level of punctuality – around 83.33% – allowed the leading Ukrainian…