SEB has seen a 40% fall in the number of grace periods it has granted to loan clients since early summer, largely as a result of a fall in applications as economic part-recovery began through summer, after the coronavirus emergency situation ended. Clients can still apply for grace periods, through to late September. Grace periods…
JSC Oschadbank will join the Deposit Guarantee Fund from January 1, 2021 after introducing appropriate changes to the Ukrainian legislation, according to the Finance Ministry. The plan on Oschadbank’s joining the Deposit Guarantee Fund was approved at a regular meeting of the Financial Stability Council on September 2. According to the ministry, due to a…
JSB Ukrgasbank has already issued UAH 500 million of investment loans under the government program “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%”, the largest indicator among the banks participating in the program, according to a report posted on the bank’s website. “Overall, Ukrgasbank has already financed “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%” for a total sum of UAH 734 million,…
Ukrainian state banks in the first half of 2020 wrote off non-performing loans (NPLs) worth UAH 26 billion at the expense of reserves and restructured such loans worth UAH 2.6 billion, the Ministry of Finance reported. To reduce the share of NPLs, state-owned banks also filed 29,000 new claims to collect debts for a total…
About 30.54 billion GEL ($9.92 billion or EUR 8.38 billion) was deposited in Georgian banks in July, up by 6.16% MoM, showed the latest data by the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). In the same time period, Georgian banks lent 34.49 billion GEL ($11.2 billion or EUR 9.47 billion), up by 2.05%. The sum of…
Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Kyrylo Shevchenko and U.S. Charge d’Affaires a.i. in Ukraine Kristina Kvien discussed reforming corporate governance in state-owned banks, continuing cooperation with international partners, in particular the IMF, as well as strengthening cooperation between Ukraine and the U.S. Shevchenko noted that strengthening corporate governance and reducing the NPL…
The total volume of non-bank deposits in Georgian banking sector in June increased by 1.95% MoM or by 549.44 million lari ($179.3 million), and constituted 28.77 billion lari ($9.3 billion), the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) reported. In June, the volume of term deposits increased by 291.09 million lari ($95.02 million) compared to May. Demand…