Belarus’ Priorbank was named by The Banker magazine (UK) among the winners of the Bank of the Year financial award, the Priorbank press service reported. The world’s best banks were announced at an official ceremony in London. The experts evaluated financial organizations of some 150 countries. Priorbank was named the best bank in Belarus for…
The UAE is one of the top five trade partners of Turkmenistan, and the volume of trade turnover between the two countries continues to grow, the UAE ambassador Hassan Abdullah Al Adab said. The diplomat noted that in 2015 the trade turnover amounted to $1.33 billion and reached $1.432 billion in 2016. Meanwhile, the share…
Azerbaijan’s Unibank OJSC issues bonds worth $10 million, said the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) in a message. The message says that this step is the second stage of consulting program for the listing of the BSE, which Unibank joined on October 26. The bank plans to place 1,000 bonds with a par value of $10,000…
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev gave instructions for the construction of a hotel during his visit to the Tashkent International Airport named after Islam Karimov on December 2. Mirziyoyev familiarized himself with the project for the construction of the new passenger terminal “Tashkent-4”. The project is funded through banks and funds of Uzbekistan and South…
The national energy company Ukrenergo in January-October increased transmission of electricity through the backbone power grids by 3.9% (by 3.565 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2016, to 93.858 billion kWh. According to a report posted on the company’s website, the cost of electricity transmission services rose by 20.8% over the ten months…
The Economic Development and Trade Ministry expects that Ukraine’s GDP would grow by 1.8% at the end of 2017, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said. “By the end of 2017 we expect growth of 1.8%,” he said at a conference organized by Fitch Ratings in Kyiv on…
Estonia’s GDP increased by 4.2% YoY in the third quarter of 2017, Statistics Estonia reported on November 30. In the third quarter, the GDP at current prices was EUR 5.8 billion. The seasonally and working-day adjusted GDP remained at the same level compared to the second quarter of 2017 (with growth of 0.3%), but grew…