KIEV, May 24 – Banks considered solvent lost UAH11.5 billion through the end of April. This is 16.7% down year-over-year (UAH 13.8 billion), the NBU reported.

KIEV, May 22 – Germany has announced its readiness to funnel EUR 200 million into the Energy Efficiency Fund, which is being created by Ukraine to raise assets from international financial organizations for projects to boost energy efficiency in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, May 25 - The Ukraine-related risks of Sberbank and other Russian banks total $25 billion, a top Sberbank executive said on Saturday.

"The $25 billion is a figure that includes not only loans but also our investments, our guarantees," first deputy chief executive Maxim Poletayev told reporters.

KIEV, May 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine has approved new requirements on disclosure of the structure of banks' owners, which foresee the disclosure of information on each individual involved.

KIEV, May 25 - Ukrainian security agents on Monday seized documents at the Kiev headquarters of Italy's UniCredit bank as part of a probe aimed at cutting off the suspected illicit financing of pro-Russian rebels in the separatist east, AFP reported.

DONETSK, May 25 - Scores of armed pro-Russian separatists gathered for several hours outside the gated home of Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, in the eastern city of Donetsk on Sunday as Ukrainians voted for a new president, Reuters reported.

KIEV, May 22 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved three new projects for Ukraine amounting to $1.48 billion that will help drive forward the essential structural and macroeconomic reforms, the World Bank said in a press release.

KIEV, May 23 - Moody's Investors Service maintains a negative outlook for Ukraine’s banking system, unchanged since 2009.

"The outlook principally reflects our expectations for a severe economic contraction in 2014, a doubling of banks’ nonperforming loans (NPLs) and a depletion of capital buffers due to credit costs," the agency stated.

KIEV, May 24 - The slowdown in economic growth in Ukraine in March-April was caused by the weakness in the world economy, so the government must focus on domestic market, a National Bank of Ukraine official said.

KIEV, May 24 – Kiev city plans to issue eurobonds worth $300 million in June 2011 and most of the funds raised will be used to pay back 2004 eurobonds worth $200 million, Head of Kiev city administration Oleksandr Popov has told Interfax-Ukraine.