KYIV, Jan 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is working on a project to develop the country's payment infrastructure based on ISO 20022 international standard in partnership with SWIFT with support from the Financial Sector Transformation project (USAID) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), according to the central bank's website.

KYIV, Jan 24 – The studies of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in Ukraine showed a fall of two points, in connection with which the country fell to the 126th place in the world rating, Transparency International indicates in its report.

KYIV, Jan 24 – The Nova Poshta group of companies delivered over 212 million parcels in 2019, which is 22% more than in 2018.

Director of the company Oleksandr Bulba said in December 2019 a total of 24.5 million parcels were delivered, of which 1.3 million were actually delivered in one day.

DAVOS, Jan 24 – The state is in dialogue with representatives of the renewable energy industry, as a result of which a new model will be developed to stimulate the development of the industry, Deputy Head of the President's Office Yulia Kovaliv has said.

DAVOS, Jan 24 – Horizon Capital, an investment company currently managing assets in Ukraine and Moldova in the amount of about $850 million, intends to exceed the asset level under management of $1 billion in the near future, Lenna Koszarny, the CEO of the company, has said.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The High Court of Justice in London at a hearing on January 19 decided to extend the freeze of assets of former owners of PrivatBank (Kyiv) Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov totaling over $2.5 billion until court issues a new order, the press service of PrivatBank has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 24 - About half of the unemployed Ukrainians have higher education, and the percentage of such people in Kharkiv is 87%, acting Head of the State Employment Service Valeriy Yaroshenko has said.

DAVOS, Jan 24 - Ukrainian startups, especially in the blockchain area, are of interest to large international investment companies, but they should be more active in the information field, representatives of major venture investment companies have said on the sidelines of the Ukraine House in Davos.

KIEV, Jan. 26 - Ukrainian airlines saw a 31.3% rise in passenger transportation in 2016, to 8.278 million people. Cargo and mail transportation grew by 5.2%, to 74,300 tons.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom announced it intends to continue the completion of construction of unit three of Tashlyk hydroelectric pumped storage power plant (HPP) in 2017.