KIEV, Sept. 12 – Further forex market liberalization is premature, National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Valeriya Gontareva has announced that the NBU said at a meeting between the NBU and the top managers of the largest banks on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – The International Finance Corporation is mulling the provision of $37 million to M.V.Cargo LLC to build a grain terminal at Yuzhny seaport (Odessa region).

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Ukraine could stop operating around 400 km of gas pipelines in the next 10 years due to surplus capacity, Ukrtransgaz President Ihor Prokopiv said.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Mykolaiv shipyard Okean no longer belongs to Vadim Novinsky under a ruling of Kiev's Pechersky district court, reports Yuriy Biriukov, a freelance advisor to the Ukrainian president.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Ukraine 's gross domestic product (GDP) will expand 1% with inflation hitting 14.1% in 2016, while the economic growth accelerating to 3% with inflation slowing to 8.1% in 2017, the government forecast.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2006-2015 provided $116.51 million for the implementation of various projects and programs, and the largest recipient was PinchukArtCentre in Kiev with $31.93 million, according to a report of the foundation posted on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The top 20 largest banks after stress tests conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2015 as of September 1, 2016 have additionally injected UAH 108 billion in their capitals, the NBU has reported on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 14 - Foreign investors believe that the biggest obstacles for investment in Ukraine are widespread corruption (average score – 8.5 points out of 10 possible) and lack of trust in the judiciary (7.5 points), according to a survey conducted by Dragon Capital (Kiev) and the European Business Association.

KIEV, Sept. 15 - Despite the large number of insurance companies in Ukraine (343), the major share of gross premiums, or 99.3%, is collected by 20 life insurers (44.4% of the total), and 97.3% by 100 risk insurers (33.6%).

KIEV, Sept. 14 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised its forecast for grain production in Ukraine and its exports in the 2015/16 agricultural year (July-June) upwards by 2.2% and 4.3% compared to the August forecast, to 63.28 million and 36.18 million tons, respectively.