The Belarusian bank OAO Belinvestbank received EUR 50 million as a subordinated loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on December 18, the Belinvestbank press service declared. The money was transferred as part of the arrangements made when EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti visited Belarus in September. It is a unique deal for…
The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) has registered the issue prospectus of interest-bearing book-entry registered unsecured bonds of OJSC Unibank, said the BSE in a message on December 18. One thousand bonds at a par value of $10,000 each have been issued. The yield on the bonds will be 6% per year. Unibank has been operating…
The owner and president of DCH Group Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has submitted a package of documents to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) seeking the approval of the acquisition of Prominvestbank (PIB, Kyiv), Deputy NBU Governor Kateryna Rozhkova has said. “On December 8 late in the evening the package of documents from Yaroslavsky arrived. Earlier we…
As of late October Azerbaijani banks’ liabilities to the country’s Central Bank (CBA) decreased to 566.6 million manats, or almost 3-fold compared to the volume of liabilities in early 2017, according to the report of the country’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority. Since the beginning of the year, banks have reduced their liabilities by 21.4%, from…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has transferred the eighth tranche of profit in the amount of UAH 4.4 billion to the state budget, the central bank’s press service reports. “On December 7, the National Bank transferred the last eighth tranche of profit in the amount of UAH 4.4 (44,378,828,945.50) billion to the state budget,”…
PrivatBank has introduced the money transfer service using Welsend system, the bank has said in a press release. The Welsend money transfer system was created by Ukrgasbank (Kyiv) in 2013. Partners of Welsend are 53 financial institutions both in Ukraine and outside the country. The system is present in over 120 countries and has over…
Currency reserves of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) increased by about $1,243.2 million (31%), to $5,254.2 million in November as compared to the same period of 2016, according to statistical data posted on the CBA website on December 6. During the month, CBA reserves rose by 53.5 million, while since early 2017 it has…