More and more companies not only welcome but also motivate banks to develop digital services, as stated in results of Swedbank’s study. Digital services are viewed by businessmen as a major factor. They help businesses organize their work more effectively, as well as save time and ensure much better monitoring of the process. The second…
Ukrainian banks’ debts to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) related to refinancing loans reduced by 3.9% in April, to UAH 66.622 billion, or $2.52 billion. Refinancing-related debts owed by banks to the regulator shrank by 10.9%, or by UAH 8.157 billion ($308 million) in January through April, the NBU reported on its website. The…
PrivatBank (Dnipro) has proposed repaying UAH 13.8 billion debt on refinancing to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which will free ex-co-owner of the financial institution Ihor Kolomoisky from personal guarantees, NBU Head Valeriya Gontareva has said. “The bank wants to repay this refinancing to us, but then they will rid Kolomoisky of all the…
Two individuals, Ukrainian citizens, in April submitted packages of documents to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to obtain its approval for the acquisition of a direct stake in the public joint-stock company Prominvestbank (Kyiv), the press service of the central bank has reported. “Now the documents have been registered and are under consideration. After…
The key risks of the Ukrainian banking sector are low operation efficiency of state-owned banks and low quality of their assets, according to the banking sector review published by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on its website. “Largest state-owned banks require the radical change of their business models and designing long-term development strategies. The…
Since the start of the month, Agroinvestbonk, Tajikistan’s largest lender, began telling its clients that as of May 4 they would only be able to withdraw 500 somoni ($58) daily on their cards. Since February, the bank had been allowing account-holders to withdraw double that amount. Things have not quite yet got as bad as…
Azerbaijan’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FIMSA) has registered a prospectus of the Azerbaijani Central Bank’s short-term notes worth 25 million manats, FIMSA said on May 8. The message said 250,000 notes would be issued at a par value of 100 manats each, and their maturity period would be 28 days. A short-term note is a…