LONDON, Nov. 7 - Fitch Ratings says the IMF Executive Board's approval of a two-year stand-by arrangement (SBA) for Ukraine of $16.4 billion, with immediate disbursement of $4.5 billion, provides both vital financial support and an anchor of a well designed economic policy program for the country.

KIEV, Nov. 8 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a EUR38.9 million financing package to Barlinek Invest, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barlinek SA, the largest wooden floorboard manufacturer in Poland, the EBRD reported in a press release.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - ChornomorNaftoGaz, Ukraine??™s only produce of oil and gas from the Black Sea, is to involve Ukrainian investors in exploiting the Odessa gas condensate deposit, its board chairman, Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk, has said.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Ukrsotsbank postponed a $200-250m issue of eurobonds from November 2006 to February 2007 and decided to draw a $120-150 million syndicated loan by the end of 2006, the bank's board chairman, Borys Tymonkyn, said on Nov. 8.

KIEV, Nov. 8 - In 2007 at least five Ukrainian banks may sell controlling interests to foreign investors, according to managing director for corporate finance of Kiev-based investment company Concorde Capital Ltd. Vitaliy Strukov.

MOSCOW, Nov. 9 - Fitch Ratings has assigned Ukraine's upcoming 10-year $1 billion eurobond a 'BB-' (BB minus) rating. The rating is in line with Ukraine's foreign currency Issuer Default rating, on which the Outlook is Positive.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - The Ukrainian government allowed Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, to attract a $550 million loan from Credit Suisse International, a source in the company said Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - AIS Corporation has become a dealer of South Korean automobile producer Ssang Yong in Ukraine and is planning to sell up to 1,000 of its cars in 2006.

MOSCOW, Nov. 9 - China's telecommunications equipment producer Huawei has received an offer from Russia's second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom, according to a report by Prime Tass news agency, that would help the Russian mobile operator enter the Ukrainian market by purchasing Ukrainian Radiosystems mobile operator (URS), Vedomosti business daily reported Wednesday, citing a letter from Huawei to VimpelCom.

KYIV, Oct 8 - The Ukrnafta gas station network currently occupies about 7-8% of the Ukrainian retail fuel sales market, Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs of PJSC Ukrnafta Serhiy Fedorenko said in an interview with Delo.ua.