KYIV, July 28 – Farmers expect an increase in import quotas for Ukrainian products in the EU as part of the update of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement (AA), in particular, tomato producers expect an increase in annual tomato import quotas from 10,000 tons to at least 30,000 tons.

KYIV, July 28 – Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) is exploring options for investment instruments, alternative to banking, which can be offered to clients amid a significant decrease in deposit rates, General Manager of the bank Rafal Juszczak has said.

KYIV, July 28 – Oschadbank, in partnership with the U.S. Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), is launching concessional lending to social enterprises from eastern Ukraine at 5% per annum, the bank's press service said on Tuesday.

KYIV, July 26 – Ukrtelecom is disappointed with the decision of the Supreme Court to recognize as legal a contract with Oschadbank to buy ESU bonds in the amount of UAH 1 bln plus interest from it and states that the contract cannot be actually executed without a significant harm to the company's activities.

KYIV, July 26 – Ukroboronprom state concern has sent the first set of BTR-3KSh (command and staff) armored vehicle to Thailand for licensed assembly in this country, director general of the concern Pavlo Bukin has said.

KYIV, July 26 – Financial Company (FC) Geneva LLC and Yevropeiske Oshchadne Tovarystvo ("European Saving Society") (both based in Kyiv), which are affiliated with ex-head of Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) Andriy Volkov's Investohills, an investment banking boutique, intend to buy a Ukrainian subsidiary of Russia's VEB, Prominvestbank (PIB), put up for sale pursuant to an international arbitration award on the Crimean assets lawsuit filed by companies associated with the ex-owners of PrivatBank.

KYIV, July 29 – National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Danyliuk has supported the initiative of Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who intends to propose Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers review the possibility of announcing a new competition for developing hydrocarbon deposits in the Dolphin sector of the Black Sea shelf under the terms of a production-sharing agreement (PSA).

KYIV, July 29 – Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPZ) started pre-commissioning and will resume its work on August 1, 2019, said OPZ Deputy Director on Economic and Financial Issues Volodymyr Vakeryak at a press conference regarding signing of give-and-take contract with LLC Agro Gas Trading (Kyiv).

KYIV, July 29 – The Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in one voice decided to lower refinancing rate following its meeting on July 17.

KYIV, July 26 – Producer prices in Ukraine in 2019 will grow by 7.6%, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in its updated forecast in the inflation report, whereas it predicted 8.2% growth of producer prices in its earlier forecast in April.