Ziraat Bank will contribute to the development of relations between two brotherly countries – Turkey and Azerbaijan, Ziraat Bank CEO Huseyin Aydin has said at the opening of the bank’s new head office in Baku. He noted that Ziraat Bank came to Azerbaijan to help the development of the country’s financial sector. “With the growing…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) at the foreign exchange auction on October 27 sold $86.1 million to Ukrainian banks, according to the press service of the central bank. The minimum exchange rate of hryvnia during the auction was UAH 26.86 per U.S. dollar, the maximum – UAH 26.87 per U.S. dollar. Earlier, the NBU…
The center for monitoring and combating computer attacks in the financial sphere will start operating in 2018, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Belarus’ National Bank Taras Nadolny declared ahead of the third CIS international banking and finance forum Minsk Business Meetings. “We are now working to set up the unit which will deal…
The Estonian business of the Swedish financial provider SEB earned a profit of EUR 22.9 million in the third quarter of 2017, which is a 17.4% increase over the same period last year, when the bank reported a profit of EUR 19.5 million. The operating income of SEB Estonia in the third quarter was EUR…
The state-owned Oschadbank (Kyiv) seeks to boost the share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in its loan portfolio 6-fold by 2020, to 30%, Oschadbank Board Chairman Andriy Pyshny has said. “The development strategy of Oschadbank, which has been in the active phase of modernization in the past three years carried out jointly with our…
Sergiy Tigipko intends after the purchase of VS Bank (Lviv) to merge it with TAScombank (Kyiv), the businessman said during the Ukrainian banking forum CIS Bankers held in Kyiv. “We want to merge VS Bank and TAScombank – we undertook such obligations. This will allow us to significantly increase the capital (by 60%), which we’ve…
In August-September the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan purchased $139.7 million on the market over the foreign exchange interventions, the financial regulator’s press service reported. “In August and September, the interventions amounted to $70 million and $69.7 million respectively,” Director of the Monetary Operations Department of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Aliya Moldabekova…