The Export Credit Agency (ECA) may start working in the fourth quarter of 2018 if its funding is increased by UAH 80 million. “We need UAH 80 million more to take legal and organizational measures needed to launch the agency. For the last six months we have been insisting on the stipulation of the indicated…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is mulling over change in its monetary policy, admitting a possible lack of liquidity in the banking sector in 2019. “Besides the current decision on the key policy rate, the NBU Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members also discussed potential needs in further modification of the operational design of the…
Banks with Russian capital in Ukraine have filed cassation complaints against the Kyiv Court of Appeal ruling to freeze their assets. The Civil Cassation Court of the Supreme Court received respective complaints on September 14. As reported, businessman Ihor Kolomoisky achieved the freeze on the assets of three Russian state-owned banks in Ukraine in order…
Ukraine has attracted powerful investments in the field of renewable energy, agrarian sector and retail trade in recent weeks. “Over the past weeks, Ukraine has attracted large investments in the economy: in the renewable energy sector from Norwegian investors, in the agricultural sector from a Saudi Arabia company, and into retail trade from Swedish brands…
In parallel with late cereals and legumes harvesting Kiev region has begun sugar beet harvesting. As of September 13 in Kiev region agrarians started late cereals, legumes and technical crops harvesting, Kyiv Regional State Administration reported on its Facebook page. That 36.9 thousand tons of sugar beet have been harvested with the average yield of…
Ukraine boosted exports of poultry meat and offal to 184,600 tons January through July, up by 8.9% YoY. Today Ukraine ranks 7th in terms of exports of broiler meat among the countries that sell this product abroad, the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said. The largest importers are Japan,…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has reported how much foreign currency it gas sold to prop up the hryvnia, Ukraine’s national currency. The NBU’s forex sales on the country’s interbank forex market in August exceeded purchases by $621.3 million, the bank said on its official website. The central bank conducts forex interventions on the…