Estonia-founded international money transfer company Transferwise has closed a secondary funding round of $292 million, or EUR 261.1 million. Investors used the Transferwise for Business platform when settling the financing. Transferwise is now valued at $3.5 billion, and the latest funding round brings the total raised by the company in both primary and secondary funding…
In March state debt of Kyrgyzstan amounted to $695.65 per capita. Over the month, the debt burden has decreased by $4.95. According to the Ministry of Finance, as of March 31, the total amount of state debt (external + internal) in Kyrgyzstan was $4,452.22 billion (310,986.13 billion soms), including $3,792.46 billion (264,901.53 billion soms) –…
According to the information released by Statistics Estonia, in April, the producer price index (PPI) of industrial output increased by 0.7% MoM and by 1.6% YoY. Compared with the previous month, the PPI in April was affected more than average by a price increase in the manufacture of electronic equipment, in electricity supply, in the…
The deficit of Ukraine’s national budget in January-April amounted to UAH 1.7 billion, or $64.5 million, which was almost twice as high as the previously announced level of deficit, which was UAH 0.9 billion, or $34.2 million. Over the period under review, revenue of the national budget was UAH 322.6 billion, or $12.25 billion, up…
Azerbaijan’s GDP exceeded 23.8 billion manats in January-April that is 2.1% more than in January-April 2018, the State Statistical Committee reported. The volume of GDP per capita stood at 2,411.8 manats. Some 46.5% of Azerbaijan’s GDP accounted for industrial sphere, 5.9% – for construction, and 3.1% – for agriculture, forestry and fishery. Net taxes on…
The Finance Ministry of Ukraine attracted UAH 3.964 billion to the state budget as a result of the sale of government domestic loan bonds on May 14, according to the ministry’s website. “As a result of the scheduled placement of government domestic loan bonds, the state budget was replenished with UAH 3,963,805,692.70 (at the exchange…
According to the information published by Statistics Estonia on May 15, in the first quarter of 2019, the labor force participation rate in Estonia was 70.8%, the employment rate 67.5% and the unemployment rate 4.7%. While the labor force participation rate and employment rate remained steady, the unemployment rate decreased by 2.1% YoY. In the…