KIEV, Nov. 17 – The expected issue of a $1.6 billion second tranche under Ukraine's Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF will be an additional stability factor, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

"We all support the allocation of the tranche by the IMF to the country. This is an obvious stability factor," said the board chairman of Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Volodymyr Lavrenchuk.

He said that investors mainly react to reforms in the taxation and regulation spheres.