KIEV, Oct. 3 – National projects Green Markets and Industrial Parks are at the initial stage of their design, and in early 2013 the State Agency for Investment and National Project Management of Ukraine plans to announce a tender to draw up feasibility studies for them.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – A law on the functioning of payment systems passed by Parliament in the future could lead to the violation of principles of competition on the national market and will hinder the development of the country's payment system, according to MasterCard international payment system.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – The National Bank of Ukraine in September sank into a negative balance of interventions on the interbank currency market, despite the improvement of the situation in the second half of the month.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – The Ukrainian Exchange and leading brokers of the Ukrainian stock market have called for the revision of a law on the depository system, which was signed by the president on September 22.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – The introduction of the electronic state procurement system in 2012 will save around 10% of the national budget's funds or UAH 40 billion, a lawmaker from the Regions Party, Iryna Horina, said at a roundtable devoted to the introduction of the system.

KIEV, Sept. 30 - Modernizing Ukraine's gas transport system will cost $3.2 billion, according to consulting firm Mott MacDonald.

The figure - from an interim report on the system modernization project - was given by head of the consulting outfit's oil and gas division in Britain Azfar Shaukat during the international Ukraine-EU: On the Way towards Common Energy Market conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 30 – Ukraine's government has added medium-term (from one to five years) and long-term (more than five years) bonds with indexed value to the list of government domestic loan bonds, maturity payments of which take into account changes in the hryvnia-dollar forex rate from the day of their placement.

KIEV, Oct. 3 – The introduction of export duty on sunflower oil, soybeans and rapeseeds, as proposed by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry, would hit Ukrainian farmers hard, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 3 - Ukraine has not given up its cooperation with Westinghouse Electric Company in the supply of nuclear fuel, Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Natalia Shumkova told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – The Industrial Union of Donbas (IUD, Donetsk) said it has been actively negotiating with a pool of international banks on the restructuring of its credit portfolio, and the talks are at the final stage, which is the reason for the non-payment of IUD’s eurobonds.