Oschadbank issued more than 800 mortgage loans worth over UAH 450 million in January-September, the bank’s press service reported. In the third quarter alone, Oschadbank’s clients received more than 400 loans worth UAH 240 million, the report said. “Since the beginning of this year, we have already invested almost half a billion hryvnias in the…
The National Bank of Kazakhstan predicts a 21.7% reduction of exports in the year 2020. In the first half of the year, the country’s current account balances ended with a surplus of $1.7 billion due to the reduction of earnings payable to foreign direct investors. However, account deficits of $4.2 billion are expected until the…
The Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) has said the most difficult time for banks during the coronavirus crisis has passed and at the end of the second quarter requests for loan holidays ceased. In the second quarter, the loan stock of the banking sector decreased by 0.7% YoY, to EUR 27.5 billion. In the previous…
The volume of railway freights in January-September declined by 45.5% YoY, to 17.241 million tons, according to data compiled by the Transport Ministry. This includes 15.812 million tons of international transports, down by 47.9%. The volume of domestic transports has increased by 12.1%, to 1.429 million tons. According to available information, the volume of transit…
Consumer inflation slowed down to 2.3% in annual terms in September (from 2.5% in August). Prices rose by 0.5% MoM, according to the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Consumer inflation was below the target range of 5% + 1% and remained lower than the forecast published in the July Inflation Report.…