As expected, inflation continued to grow at the start of the year, including due to the growing impact of underlying factors, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshnyy stated at a briefing at the central bank. Inflation accelerated to 12.9% YoY in January and, according to preliminary estimates, continued to rise in February.…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has recorded a halt in the trend of decreasing interest rates on deposits and expects their further increase following the latest monetary policy decisions, the NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy has said. “The downward trend in deposit interest rates has stopped. Moreover, in January, we recorded a slight, but significant…
On March 4, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine raised UAH 6.7 billion to the state budget at an auction for the placement of domestic government bonds. The ministry’s press service wrote this on Facebook. The Finance Ministry offered investors hryvnia-denominated domestic government bonds: UAH 979 billion at 15.85% with a 1.4-year maturity, UAH 619 million…
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is considering financing energy and infrastructure programs in Ukraine previously managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by the head of JICA’s Ukraine office Hideki Matsunaga at the 5th Ukrainian-Japanese Forum organized by the New Europe Center. Matsunaga noted that USAID and JICA had…
In 2024, the budget received UAH 9.9 billion in revenues from the privatization of state-owned property. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced this at a press conference on March 4. “In 2024, Ukraine achieved record results in privatization in 10 years. The total amount of proceeds for last year amounted to UAH 9.9 billion.…
The state has paid UAH 56 million to employers under the compensation programme for the employment of 2,500 internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2025. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Economy Tetiana Berezhna. “Since the beginning of this year, 1,500 employers have received compensation from the Government for the employment of 2,500…
Since the beginning of 2025, businesses have received 3,727 soft loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme totalling UAH 11.7 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, businesses have taken 107,400 loans worth UAH 371.8 billion. Last week, Ukrainian entrepreneurs received 933 soft loans worth UAH 2.3 billion. “Thanks to the…