KYIV, Feb 25 – Kharkiv armor enterprises of the Ukroboronprom State Concern – Malyshev Plant and Morozov Design Bureau – are ready to start bulk production of hulls of BTR-4 armored personnel carriers (APC) under the public defense procurement in 2019.

KYIV, Feb 25 - Capital investments in Ukraine for 2018 increased by 16.4%, while for 2017 by 22.1%, the State Statistics Service has said.

According to the State Statistics Service, some UAH 526.3 billion of capital investments were used in 2018 (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and the joint forces operation area).

KYIV, Feb 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has postponed the application of the international bank account number (IBAN) until early August 2019 from April 1, 2019, the director of the department of payment systems and innovative development of the central bank, Oleksandr Yablunivsky, has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has expressed disappointment with the fact that national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has failed to meet a gas production target.

KYIV, Feb 26 – State-owned enterprise Spetstechnoexport, a member of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, has presented new promising areas of defense cooperation between Ukraine and India to the top officers of the Defense Ministry of India at Aero India Show 2019 held on February 20 through February 24 in Bengaluru (India).

KYIV, Feb 23 - GE Transportation and state railroad company Ukrzaliznytsia signed a 15-year framework agreement worth about $1 billion on partnership in the renewal and modernization of locomotives.

KYIV, Feb 26 – The state-owned savings bank Oschadbank may tap international financial markets to raime money to restructure Eurobond, Oschadbank Board Chairman Andriy Pyshny said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – The introduction of a new liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) would strengthen liquidity profiles at Ukrainian banks and reduce their liquidity risk, Moody's Investors Service reported.

KYIV, Feb 23 - The volume of money transfers to Ukraine through money transfer systems in 2017 decreased by 4.4%, to $2.37 billion.

According to a report posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the volume of transfers from Ukraine in 2017 decreased by 18.8%, to UAH 286 million, while within Ukraine it increased by 21.4%, to $4.45 billion.

KIEV, Feb. 23 - Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company (Dnipro) has signed a five-year contract to supply railway wheels and axles to Progress Rail Services, a large suppler of railway products and solutions in North America belonging to Caterpillar.