The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) raised 47.7 million mantas at a deposit auction, the CBA said. The CBA was ready to receive 150 million manats for deposit, however, the demand was less than supply. The weighted average interest rate on deposit transactions at the auction was 14.87%. The CBA started holding deposit auctions in…
PrivatBank (Dnipro) officially informed Deutsche Trustee Company Limited, a trustee on 2018 eurobonds, that the bank does not have any obligations under the securities, according to a report on the website of the London Stock Exchange. “In response to your letter of February 8, please be informed that PrivatBank has no more obligations under the…
S&P Global Ratings affirmed its ‘B-/C’ long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings on Capital Bank Kazakhstan JSC (CBK). The outlook is negative. At the same time, S&P affirmed ‘kzB+’ Kazakh national scale rating on the bank. “The affirmation follows an improvement in CBK’s liquidity metrics in the first half of February,” S&P said. “The bank’s…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in 2017 expects that the banking sector would see profit, not taking into account PrivatBank, the NBU has reported on its website. The key factors that influence this in 2017 will be the reduction of sending to reserves and active growth of interest income thanks to the increase in…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has introduced some new requirements for payment systems oversight, their participants and operators, the central bank has said on its website. The new requirements are outlined in NBU Board resolution No. 11 signed on February 13, approving of amendments to some NBU acts. The document came into effect on…
The number of transactions using payment cards in 2016 increased by 28% YoY, to 2.513 billion, and their volume – by 30.6%, to UAH 1.61 trillion. According to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the volume of transactions to obtain cash using payment cards rose by 22.5% and amounted to UAH 1.039…
The refinancing rate of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) was reduced from 17% to 16% per annum on February 15, the NBRB Information and PR Office reported. Apart from that, the interest rate on standing and bilateral operations designed to keep up the current liquidity of Belarusian banks was reduced from…