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«Minfin» has compiled the bank's stability rating for the Q4 of 2023. One of the indicators based on which the rating is formed is the...
The threat of hryvnia devaluation is intensifying. On December 31, the cash exchange rate reached almost 39 UAH/USD. Despite the formal...
For the second quarter in a row, the average score received has improved. If last time it was 3.38 points, this time it is almost 3.5. In...
A serious expansion of hostilities in the Middle East and the emergence of new wars on the planet can provoke a noticeable deterioration...
By the beginning of August, the national debt of Ukraine reached a new historical record — UAH 4.86 trillion, or USD 132.9 billion. In...
Inflation rates continue to slow. In 2023, consumer price growth may be within 10-11%, which is significantly better than forecasts....
«Minfin» has compiled the bank's stability rating for the Q2 of 2023. One of the indicators based on which the rating is formed is the...
After Ukraine's victory in the war and the cancellation of martial law, the banking system can begin to consolidate. Experts expect...
The National Bank of Ukraine has sharply increased fines for violations by banks of the rules of financial monitoring and currency...
The total amount of Ukraine's public or publicly guaranteed debt, from February 28, 2022, to May 31, 2023, increased by more than 68% to...
Viktor Shulyk, Program Management Office Director of the IBI-Rating Agency, told the ubr.ua portal about the situation on the currency...
«Minfin» has compiled the bank's stability rating for the Q1 of 2023. One of the indicators based on which the rating is formed is the...
Due to the increase in the FRS's discount rate, 186 US banks may go bankrupt after Silicon Valley Bank. Panic in the United States has...
Due to the difficult situation in the energy sector caused by Russian missile terrorism, Ukraine may increase electricity tariffs for the...
The NBU introduced a bill that allows the nationalization of the system bank from shareholders under sanctions. The reason for its...
Exit of foreign banks from the Russian Federation remains a painful unresolved issue for Ukraine and our National Bank. Many Western...
«The fact of the application of sanctions and the seizure of assets accelerated the bank's exit from the system. Even with the potential...
The volume of steel production in Ukraine has decreased by more than five times over the last eight years due to Russian aggression.
Viktor Shulyk, Program Management Office Director of the IBI-Rating Agency, told the ubr.ua portal about the situation in the cash...
The volume of the issue in 2022 was UAH 400 billion. That's exactly the amount that the NBU bought Domestic Government Loan Bonds...
Metallurgy, Ukraine's leading export industry, lost most of its potential after the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Inflation at 27% in 2022 was better than expected. But it is still too early to rejoice: in 2023, prices will rise by 21-23% due to war...
Due to the Russian invasion, Ukraine's GDP at the end of 2022, according to various estimates, may lose from 20% to 60%.
«Minfin» has compiled the first «military» Rating of bank stability for the Q1 of 2022. One of the indicators on the basis of which the...
During the current year, the hryvnia has strengthened from USD/UAH 28.43 (exchange rate as of January 5) to USD/UAH 26.06 (November 11)....
«Focus» magazine, together with experts, assessed the effectiveness of the ministers' work. On behalf of the IBI-Rating Agency, Viktor...
The Kazakh edition «Kursiv» analyzed the consumer lending market in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Ukraine,...
Every year, in the budget of Ukraine lays down a plan for the State Property Fund for billions of hryvnias. But privatization is being...
«Minfin» has compiled the bank's stability rating for the Q3 of 2021. One of the indicators on the basis of which the rating is formed is...
«Korespondent» magazine, together with experts, analysts and market participants, evaluated the work Ukrainian CEOs.
On November 10, PUMB, owned by businessman Rinat Akhmetov, announced that it had reached a preliminary agreement on the purchase of Idea...
Since the beginning of autumn, the national economy began to show a decline. According to the State Statistics Service, industrial...
Kazakh Kaspi is going to buy Ukrainian BTA. According to assessments of market participants, we can talk about an amount from $4 to $10...
The «Minfin» portal together with market participants predicted the hryvnia exchange rate under negative, positive and baseline...
«Minfin» has prepared the bank's stability rating for the Q2 of 2021. One of the indicators on the basis of which the rating is formed is...
Since the beginning of 2021, the hryvnia has strengthened by almost 6% and by mid-August, the national currency exchange rate fluctuates...
«Focus» magazine, together with industry experts, analysts and market participants, evaluated the work of Ukrainian managers. On behalf...
The «Minfin» portal has prepared the bank's stability rating for the Q4 of 2020. In research was involved the financial institution where...
Despite the decrease in rates, borrowers are afraid to take out loans due to their high cost and excessive requirements for collateral....
In order to understand which areas for investment are better to choose this year, the edition of the «Minfin» portal interviewed...
The International Finance Corporation, which is part of the World Bank has signed a EUR 30 million loan agreement with Ukrgasbank. In the...
2020 has become simultaneously one of the most successful and unsuccessful years in recent years.
Without exaggeration, the past 2020 can be called a stress test for the Ukrainian economy, which it moved truly successfully.
According to preliminary estimates of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture, the fall in Ukraine's GDP in 2020...
The 2021 currency year may be very unpredictable for Ukraine and the hryvnia. The course will be influenced by many different factors,...
The outgoing 2020 broke all forecasts. Yes, many experts predicted a possible crisis. But purely economic, caused by the inflation of the...
«Minfin» has prepared the bank's stability rating for the Q3. One of the indicators on the basis of which the rating is formed is the...
One of the main goals of the Association Agreement with the EU is removing of trade barriers. According to the agreements, Ukraine should...
In Ukraine, the government reports on new records for the number of patients. Now the authorities and the public are most afraid of the...
The «Minfin» portal has prepared the bank's stability rating for the Q2 of 2020. In research was involved the financial institution where...
Falling of industrial production, business bankruptcy, devaluation. These are the results of the first half of 2020.
A pandemic situation is not a time for tailwinds. But even in such seemingly difficult situations, there are top managers who work...
On June 24, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft of a bill No. 3739 on establishing localization requirements for state procurement of a...
Keeping savings in dollars and euros has become the norm for many Ukrainians. However, these currencies have now entered in a turbulent...
Oleksandr Kalashnikov, Director of the finance department of the IBI-Rating agency, has commented on the market situation and...
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced new anti-crisis measures. The amount of the emergency bond repurchase program increased by...
The Verkhovna Rada on May 13, 2020 removed the last barrier that separated Ukraine from the resumption of IMF financing, — adopted in the...
The quarantine and the global economic crisis confused all the investor's cards. Those who expected earnings are calculating losses now....
Is there any fear of inflation over the switching-on of the printing press, and what “quantitative reducing” in the Ukrainian way might...
Potentially, up to 1.5 million Ukrainians can be involved in enterprise support programs for job preservation. But are the steps proposed...
Since April 24, the National Bank's Board has reduced the NBU key policy rate from 10% to 8% per annum. This is a much more radical step...
On April 20, 2020 at the New York Stock Exchange, May futures for WTI American oil fell in price to the level of 1986 - less than $ 8 per...
Four auctions missed by the Ministry of Finance to place Government bonds alarmed the financial market. Everyone is afraid of default and...
After a month of quarantine, on April 13, 2020, the Verkhovna Rada at an extraordinary meeting voted for a revised version of the...
A few months ago, Ukraine was preparing to set stability records. Domestic GDP had all chance of rising for five years in a row, prices...
In March, the volume of loans issued for business entities decreased by 3% compared with February. In April, the falling of lending will...
Less than two weeks of total quarantine was enough for the 2020 advance to be called the worst for the Ukrainian economy since the war...
The negative processes that were supposed to replace the growth period were intensified by the pandemic. In this situation, the most...
The key reference point in choosing a place for business remains the level of socio-economic development of the region.
The NBU assessed the possible consequences of coronavirus for the global economy and Ukraine. According to officials, the situation does...
The portfolio of government bond what holds non-residents is melting. If a week ago, on March 3, foreigners had domestic government bonds...
According to the results of the previous year, in comparison with 2018, banks almost tripled their total profit, having managed to earn...
In May 2021, the Ukrainian government will have to pay payments for investors by GDP warrants (or VRI) - the Securities issued in 2015...
The NBU intends to reduce its interest rate from the current 11% to 7% by the end of the year. Along with it will decrease the...
In the fourth quarter of 2019, Ukraine showed 1.5% of the economic growth. This is the worst quarterly figure since the beginning of 2016.
Companies need to be careful about the question of an insurer choice, as attentively as over choosing of contractors.
According to the results of the research, compared with the previous quarter, grades deteriorated in 9 financial institutions, 22 banks...
Igor Kolomoisky in the interview for the Financial Times stated that the refusal to pay external debts to the IMF and other creditors is...
Presidents leave and come - the state debt remains. In order to repay it without shocks, in the next few years Ukraine will have to...
In general, in the first quarter, financial institutions continued to increase profits and set a new record. In January-March, solvent...
The procedure should have started in the previously with sale of Ukrgasbank. But the process was delayed.
Recent investment climate assessments in Ukraine have shown positive dynamics. According to research by the European Business Association...
Until 2008, the stock market of Ukraine demonstrated growth due to the inflow of foreign capital. However, the crises of 2008–2009 and...
The deputies voted for the main financial estimate of the country at dawn on November 23. The budget predicts that in 2019 the Ukrainian...
Many residents of Ukraine in a few last years are increasingly interested in the question of in which currency is better to keep personal...
The annual inflation increased approximately by about 10%, while the cost of food in the family budget increased by 20%.
Since 2000, gold has risen in price for 11 years. Investments in this asset at that time looked very attractive. Investors could earn on...
In general, the banks overcame the third quarter without shocks. However, in this time were changes in top five.
In October, the hryvnia was supported by the sale of currency by agro-exporters and positive news from the IMF about the launch of a new...
On November 1, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev put in place anti-Ukrainian sanctions. The list includes the largest enterprises of...
Banks received in the first three quarters of 2018 a total loss in amount of UAH 8.9 billion.
According to the State Statistics Service, it is clear that the economic situation in Ukraine has finally stabilized, especially compared...
Government bonds are becoming a popular investment instrument for individuals, real estate and precious metals are losing position, and...
The National Bank of Ukraine decided to leave the discount rate unchanged at 18% per annum. The relevant decision of the NBU approved in...
Over the past five years, inflation in Ukraine consumer prices rose by about 90%.
Historically, gold bars and coins are considered one of the most reliable forms of savings. Gold is not only an object of investment, but...
No panic so far: October 10-11, the markets fell by only 1.5-4%.
Autumn for hryvnia is relatively calm. After a peak of 28.49 UAH/$ at the beginning of September, the dollar did not rise above 28.32...
The European currency is more sensitive to internal processes in the EU than to the increase in debt yields in other countries.
On September 15, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the parliament a draft budget 2019.
Relations between the USA and China are deteriorating every day. Donald Trump announced a new stage in the introduction of fees on...
The draft state budget of Ukraine for 2019, registered in the Verkhovna Rada, provides that the weighted average rate for hryvnia debt...
According to the directive of the Cabinet of Ministers, from October 5, business checks will begin in the area of fixing the nature of...
The next stage of the trial in the UK between Ukraine and Russia in the case of «Yanukovych's debt» left behind Ukraine.
To develop the economy, loans are needed, but in the fight against inflation, the NBU has so raised the level of the discount rate that...
The government intends to gradually reduce its public debt to 49 percent of the country's GDP until 2020.
Each Ukrainian has 50 thousand hryvnias of national debt.
Parliament was offered to launch a new financial instrument - infrastructure bonds. Deputies want to give local authorities the financial...
In August, the hryvnia lost 5%. The Ukrainian currency has become another «victim» of capital outflow from emerging markets. Similarly,...
The hryvnia has lost 55 kopecks in the last two weeks of July. The dollar on the interbank market in July 30 was cost 26.76 UAH. In the...
The issue of carrying out the population census has been postponed for about 8 years.
Despite of the high level of corruption and weak economic growth, activity on the Ukrainian market of mergers and acquisitions is...
Traditionally Ukraine does not have enough currency. What, in particular, is shown by the reduction in the international reserves of the...
International reserves for seven months decreased by $ 1 billion. According to preliminary statistics for June, Ukraine's international...
This year, President Mr. Petro Poroshenko set another ambitious goal for Ukraine: be on the list of TOP-50 countries of Doing Business...
The Agency will conduct consultations, provide guarantees under contracts and partially facilitate the credit burden on exporters.
Already in 2019, Ukrainian business can feel the benefits of introducing a tax on the withdrawn capital.
TOP-6 Conclusions for the World and Ukraine
And in which sectors they are more interested
IMF tranche to Ukraine: Compelled cooperation?
Tax amnesty is good, but with current model of governing - it's useless
Ministry of Finance has adopted a document defining the further fate of the four super gigants of the financial market, a strategy for...
According to the IMF, in the period from 1991 to 2015, the average size of the shadow economy in Ukraine was 44.8% of GDP.
All the top places on the list were literally occupied by the "daughters" of Western banks.
In 2018, Ukraine should pay for the IMF $ 2.4 billion. The peaks of payments fall in May, August and November - every month it will be...
In the state budget-2018, the Cabinet of ministers worsened the indicator of expected inflation in 2018 from 7% to 9%.
Since the beginning of the year, non-residents have invested UAH 7.575 billion in state bonds. From this time, the total portfolio of...
After the crisis of 2014-2015 in Ukraine fixed the highest percentage of non-performing loans in the history of world observation....
Over the past few years, Ukrainian exports have reoriented. But our primary commodity in foreign markets is still raw materials.
In the beginning of the February the world's richest people lost billions of dollars, due to the fall of stock indices.
On Monday, the Dow Jones index in the US fell by 1175 points or by 4.6% - this is the biggest anti-record since 2008.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, about 5 million of our fellow citizens live and work abroad.
Hryvnia started the year with a depreciations, but the most pessimistic conjectures have not been fulfilled
In Ukraine, with cryptocurrencies, everything is simple and difficult - there is no legal status, but we are in the TOP-10 countries of...
In the research, as in the previous quarter, were included 31 banks, which the portfolio of deposits of the individuals' exceeded UAH 1...
During the period from 20 November to 1 December, the hryvnia has fallen in price from 26.46 to 27.15 UAH/$. The last time such interbank...
The bill, submitted by the government in September, was filed more than 2 thousand amendments. The document was supported by 260 deputies.
Ukraine has been returned to the foreign borrowings market. The maneuver proved successful: investors quickly bought out Eurobonds for $...
Ukraine has been returned to the foreign borrowings market. The maneuver proved successful: investors quickly bought out Eurobonds for $...