KYIV, Nov 2 – Analysts at BofA Securities have improved their recommendations on Ukraine's eurobonds to Marketweight (MW) from the Underweight (UW), to which they worsened these recommendations early September, according to a recent review.

KYIV, Nov 1 – The debt of the population of Ukraine for housing and utilities services in September 2019 decreased by 1.9% compared to August 2019 and amounted to UAH 46.5 billion (excluding electricity).

KYIV, Oct 31 – The Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved the provision of additional financing in the amount of EUR 200 million for the development of renewable energy sources in Ukraine.

KYIV, Nov 1 – Solvent banks in Ukraine in January-September 2019 earned UAH 48.35 billion in net profit, which is 4.4 times more than in the same period last year (UAH 10.9 billion), the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said.

KYIV, Oct 31 – The State Automobile Roads Agency (Ukravtodor) and China's Poly Changda Engineering Co. Ltd have signed a memorandum of cooperation as part of the implementation of the first phase of construction of Big orbital roads around Kyiv connecting M-05 Kyiv-Odesa and M-06 Kyiv-Chop highways.

KYIV, Oct 31 – The draft ten-year development plan of Ukrenergo, which the company intends to submit to the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Regulation (NCER) for approval in the near future, provides for investment of about UAH 63 billion in the development of power grids, the company has said.

KYIV, Oct 31 – Parliament approved bill No. 2239-1, which is necessary to separate activities for natural gas transportation from Naftogaz Ukrayiny, certify a new independent gas transmission system operator and create conditions for signing a transit contract with Gazprom according to European rules.

KYIV, Oct 31 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) plans in the first half of 2020 to sell United Mining and Chemical Company and Electrotyazhmash, according to materials by SPF Head Dmytro Sennychenko, presented at the First International Investment Forum in Mariupol.

KYIV, Oct 31 – State-owned PrivatBank and JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., announced that they will start JCB merchant acquiring operations in Ukraine, the bank has said in a press release.

KIEV, Nov 3 – Remittances to Ukraine using money transfer systems created by residents and nonresidents came to $1.875 billion in January-September 2016, which is seven times more than remittances sent abroad ($268 million), Director of the payment systems and innovative development department of the National Bank of Ukraine Serhiy Shatsky said, referring to preliminary data, at the ITS Forum held on November 1 through November 3.