KYIV, Jan 22 - Silvaco Inc., a US software company specializing in electronic design automation, acquired Polyteda Cloud, a Ukrainian physical verification solution and cloud enablement provider, the companies reported.

KYIV, Jan 22 – Retail trade turnover in Ukraine in 2020 increased by 8.4% compared to 2019 in comparable prices, the State Statistics Service reported.

KYIV, Jan 22 – The indicators of net foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2020 in Ukraine are the worst in the past 20 years, and at best, the country did not receive an inflow of FDI in 2020, the founding partner and CEO of the investment company Horizon Capital (Ukraine) Lenna Koszarny said.

KYIV, Jan 22 - The number of banks expecting an improvement in the quality of their loan portfolio over the next 12 months was 74% for the corporate segment and 83% for lending to households, according to a survey conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, Jan 25 – Chinese investors will seek to replace the management of Motor Sich, Ukraine’s only producer of aircraft engines, at an extraordinary shareholder meeting they have requested to hold on January 31.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Ukraine ranked the world’s second largest exporter of grain in the 2019/2020 marketing season behind the U.S., Deputy Minister of Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture, Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka said.

KYIV, Jan 27 – Ukrposhta has so far not imposed restrictions on the reception of shipments from China, Ukrposhta CEO Igor Smelyansky said on Monday.

KYIV, Jan 27 – Ukrgazvydobuvannia in 2019 paid UAH 23.26 billion of royalties to the consolidated budget of Ukraine, Naftogaz Ukrainy Executive Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, Jan 27 – The amount in the dispute between Russian state-owned corporation VEB.RF and the Justice Ministry at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce regarding the ban on the sale of 99.7726% of Prominvestbank (PIB, Kyiv) shares exceeds EUR200 million, according to the draft prospectus of the issue of Ukraine's eurobonds.

KYIV, Jan 28 – Fitch Ratings has assigned VF Ukraine, the second largest mobile operator in Ukraine, a Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'B', the outlook on the IDR is positive, Fitch has said on its website.