KYIV, Oct 8 – The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine is interested in participation in the regulation of the crypto assets market, a representative of the ministry Oleksandr Borniakov said at the Blockchain Society and the State of Ukraine open-door meeting in Kyiv on Monday.

KYIV, Oct 8 – Raiffeisen Bank Aval, ProCredit Bank and OTP Bank will get up to EUR 70 million in funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development that will be disbursed to boost working capital of small businesses, the bank said Tuesday.

KYIV, Oct 7 – Primary registrations of electric passenger cars (used and new) in Ukraine in January-September 2019 increased by 42% compared to the same period in 2018, to 5,081 units, commercial ones doubled, to 397 units, according to the Ukrautoprom association.

KYIV, Oct 7 – A large Brazilian IT company, Stefanini, with the value of assets of $1 billion, has announced expansion of its operations in Europe and opening of its office in Ukraine, the company reported.

KYIV, Oct 7 – Ferrexpo plc, which controls Ukraine’s Poltava and Yeristovo mining and processing plants, continues to increase its fleet of wagons, having received 50 new high-sided cars from Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region) from the ordered 400.

KYIV, Oct 7 – The Ministry of Finance over the past month lowered the forecast of payments on public debt in the fourth quarter of 2019 by UAH 2.78 billion, to UAH 80.30 billion and increased for the first quarter of 2020 by UAH 2.50 billion, to UAH 115.03 billion.

KYIV, Oct 7 – The international reserves of Ukraine in September 2019, according to preliminary data, decreased by 2.6%, to $21.438 billion due to significant repayments on government debt, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said on its website.

KYIV, Oct 8 – The European Business Association (EBA) has expressed concerns that many former employees of the tax police and other fiscal bodies would move to the Bureau of Financial Investigations (BFI) on general grounds or after the results of formal competition and insists that bill No. 1208-2 should be refined for second reading.

KYIV, Oct 4 – The World Bank has lowered its forecast for growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 to 3.3% from 3.5%, Lead Economist and Program Leader covering Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine at the World Bank Faruk Khan said in Kyiv on Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 5 – The embargo on imports of Russian cement clinker imposed by the Ukrainian government at the end of August would not create a shortage of products on the Ukrainian cement market, Head of the Ukrcement association of cement producers Pavlo Kachur said.