LIMASSOL, Feb. 14 - Moody's Investors Service Monday assigned a rating of Ba2 to the Loan Participation Notes to be issued in a private placement by Credit Swiss International to finance a subordinated loan to Ukreximbank.

KIEV, Feb. 14 ??“ Deutsche Bank, which last year opened a 2 billion euros credit line to Naftogaz Ukrayiny, sold the debt to Gazprombank of Russia and DEPFA Investment Bank Ltd of Cyprus, a government source said.

BUDAPEST. Feb. 14 - OTP Bank, Hungary's biggest financial institution, is looking at new acquisition targets in Ukraine after its planned purchase of Ukrsotsbank looks to be slipping out of reach, the bank's Deputy CEO Zoltan Speder said Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 14 ??“ The Ukrainian-Danish Image Holding is planning to start building a new distillery in the Moscow suburbs in 2005 and to produce under the Khortytsia trademark there, Yevhen Cherniak, director of Megapolis Trading House (Zaporizhia), the exclusive distributor of the trademark, announced on Friday, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Feb. 14 ??“ Registration of new Volkswagens in Ukraine in 2004 went down by nearly 10% in comparison with 2003, down to 4,916 (in 2003 ??“ 5,411), director general of Intercar-Ukraine, general importer of Volkswagen to Ukraine, Serhiy Savytsky told a press conference last week.

KIEV, Feb. 14 ??“ The Ukrproduct Group, a large Ukrainian dairy processor which sells under the Nash Molochnyk, Narodny Produkt, Vershkova Dolyna trademarks, has sold 27.2% of its stock on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, company officials announced at a Monday press conference, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Feb. 11 ??“ The Industrial Union of Donbas (IUD) and Polish Z??™omrex S.A. on Friday signed an agreement on setting up a joint venture whose working name is the Industrial Metallurgical Company.

KYIV, Jan 12 – Ukraine in 2024 focuses on the development of the defense-industrial complex and sets the task of creating joint defense enterprises with Western companies and localizing production of weapons, demining and other equipment, First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

KYIV, Jan 12 – Loans can probably still become cheaper after the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) cut the key policy rate from 16% to 15% per annum in December, NBU Deputy Governor Serhiy Nikolaychuk says.

KYIV, Jan 12 – DTEK Energy invested about UAH 11 billion in repair campaigns at thermal power plants and Ukrainian coal mining in 2023, which is almost twice as much as in 2022, when investments amounted to about UAH 6 billion.