The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has retained refinancing rate at 14%. The bank has announced its decision to conduct the more moderate monetary policy to curb inflation consequences of the increase of the minimum wage to 3,200 UAH a month. The central bank said that the decision on the size of the discount rate…
The Ukrainian banking sector continues to face challenges in credit growth due to the burden of unresolved problem loans and solvency issues, Fitch Ratings has said in a press release referring to its report “Ukrainian Banks Dashboard 3Q16.” “We expect sector performance to remain under pressure from high provisioning needs, while solvency recovery is likely…
Azerbaijan’s Central Bank (CBA) will carry out tight monetary policy in 2017, the CBA Chairman Elman Rustamov said. “Due to transition to a floating exchange rate of Azerbaijani manat, we switched to targeting the growth of money supply”, Rustamov said. “Our main goal is to prevent additional currency emission and not to exert pressure on…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is ready to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Azerbaijan, a source in the country’s government reported. ADB offers to support business by opening credit lines for local banks. “Thus, the ADB wants to provide support to banks in Azerbaijan and contribute to the development of SMEs”, said the…
Bad credits in the banking system of Moldova amounted to 16.29% as of the end of October, up by 0.52% MoM. Compared with October 2015, it increased by 6.48% or 1.7 times from 9.81%, NBM reports. The biggest shares of bad credits were recorded by Victoriabank – 33.82% (against 32.92% in September and 11.15% in…
As of the end of October Moldova-Agroindbank remained the major lender, giving out loans equal to MDL 10 billion 944.8 million, or 30.5% of all loans given out as of this date. The month before the bank lent MDL 11 billion 095.8 million. Moldindconbank and Victoriabank were the second and the third to Moldova-Agroindbank, retaining…
The government will offset the losses on the export loans issued by the Belarusian banks in 2017-2018, reads Resolution No. 981 of the Council of Ministers of Belarus of November 30. The document was published on the national legal portal on December 2. The Council of Ministers made a decision to offset export loan losses…