KYIV, Sept 20 – The main buyers of new 15-year $3 billion bonds of Ukraine were investors from the United States (46%) and UK (36%), Deputy Finance Minister Yuriy Butsa said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – A delay of the repeat auction to sell Odessa Port-Side Plant with a reduced starting price could result in bankruptcy for the state-owned enterprise, State Property Fund head Ihor Bilous said.

KIEV, Sept. 19 – Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk and Chairman of CNBM International Corporation (China) Jinsong Zhang have signed a memorandum on cooperation in the energy sector.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukrzaliznytsia intends to ask the holders of $500 million worth of restructured notes to revise the conditions for the securities in determining cross-default cases, the issuer announced on the website of the Irish Stock Exchange.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The European network of medical laboratories Synevo will invest EUR 2 million in opening 30 new laboratory centers in different cities and towns of Ukraine by late 2017, Marketing Manager Yana Dekhtiar told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny chief Andriy Kobolev clashed with the government's plan to increase its natural gas stockpile, saying it would be “inappropriate“ for Ukraine to accumulate more than 15.1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas by October 15 in underground gas storage facilities.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Japan's Fujikura electric wire and telecommunications systems corporation plans to receive EUR 40 million of revenue from an electronic element and wire plant in Lviv region which is being created as part of an investment project, Fujikura Managing Executive Officer Ichiro Kamada said at the presentation of the project in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 18 - British mining company Ferrexpo Plc with main assets in Ukraine after the payment of the interim dividend as of September 16, had total cash balance of approximately $280 million, and of this cash balance, approximately $174 million of which was held at Bank Finance and Credit, which belongs to its majority shareholder.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine in resolution No. 612 has decided to place Bank Finance and Credit, which is under control of MP Kostiantyn Zhevaho, in the category of insolvent banks.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – Parliament has ratified a credit agreement signed between Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development regarding a project on the renovation of hydroelectric power plants under the management of Ukrhydroenergo.