Germany’s Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) will provide 7 million euros for the rural housing finance in Tajikistan. An agreement on this subject has been signed by Ms. Kristin Laabs, Country Director, KfW Development Bank Tajikistan, and Mr. Nematullo Hikmatullozoda, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan. The German and the Tajik governments reportedly agreed…
Crosco Integrated Drilling & Well Services Ltd. (Croatia) has won 2 out of 15 lots of a tender of the public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia to carry out drilling works in Kharkiv and Poltava regions in 2017-2019. According to a report in the ProZorro e-procurement system, Ukrgazvydobuvannia seeks to sign a contract for UAH 792.581 million…
PrivatBank states it will increase its payment terminal network by 20% with Verifone services, about 20,000 Verifone VX 520 terminals are expected to be deployed by September, the bank’s press service reports. “PrivatBank aims at increasing its network for payment and contactless cards acceptance by 20% in 2017. Verifone has been selected as the payment…
The World Bank on May 3 approved of $225.7 million in financing from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Nurek Rehabilitation Project. According to the World Bank Dushanbe Office, the World Bank financing, one-quarter in grants and three-quarters in credits, will refurbish the Nurek Hydropower Plant (HPP) that will help secure electricity supply in…
The National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) has stopped operations of six more lending agencies. On May 1, Tajik central bank issued resolution on withdrawing licenses of the microlending agencies Asrina (Khujand) and Armon (Dushanbe). Asrina and Armon reportedly failed to comply with the NBT’s minimum capital requirements for the microlending organizations and the NBT withdrew…
State-controlled Oschadbank (Kyiv) in 2016 received UAH 464.085 million of net profit against UAH 12.273 billion of net loss for 2015. According to the financial report of the bank, its net interest income in 2016 was UAH 2.677 billion, while in 2015 this figure was “minus” UAH 9.844 billion. In addition, the bank received UAH…
Latvian government approved the new state budget priorities funding process, the Finance Ministry reported. During the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on May 3, members of the government reviewed a draft that provided for a new order for financing processes of budget priorities of different ministries starting with the preparation process of the 2018…