The Bank of Estonia has come up with a plan to reduce the use of 1-cent and 2-cent coins before eventually removing them from circulation. The central bank floated a proposal at the tax environment forum to discuss how to start rounding off cent values at vendors up and down to the nearest 5 cent-rounded…
The state-owned Oschadbank, the leader in the number of branches in Ukraine, in October-December 2017 closed 102 structural divisions, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has reported on its website. As of January 1, 2018 the branch chain of the bank had 3,305 branches. The top three most active banks in optimization of their chains,…
Ukrainian banks in 2017 reduced the number of their operating structural units by 827, to 9,489 branches as of January 1, 2018, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) website. In particular, the state-run Oschadbank closed the largest number of branches in 2017, namely 443 units, while UkrSibbank shut down 53 units, Pravex-Bank 45…
The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan conducted the first intervention this year to sell dollars. The bank sold $5.4 million with settlements on the date of the transaction. Growth in dollar exchange rate forced the National Bank to enter the currency market. Since the beginning of the year, the currency has risen in price by 50…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in 2017 bought nearly $2.3 billion on the interbank forex market, according to the NBU website. At the same time, the regulator purchased over $1 billion through interventions in the form of a request for the best forex rate, the report said. Over the period under review, the National…
The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held an auction for placement of short-term notes of Azerbaijan’s Central Bank (CBA) worth 150 million manats with a maturity period of 28 days, the BSE said in a message. The demand exceeded the supply – banks applied for 150.69 million manats at par value. The deadline for payments on…
Stable uncertainty witnessed around the appointment of Valeriya Gontareva’s successor to the post of the National Bank’s Governor while an acting head remains at the helm has already become a bad tradition for Ukraine, said a Ukrainian political analyst and head of the Penta Center for Applied Political Research, Volodymyr Fesenko. “This is not the…