KIEV, Aug. 8 – The World Bank may decide early in 2015 on the allocation of a second facility worth $500 million under its Programmatic Financial Sector Development Policy Loan in Ukraine, World Bank Country Director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Qimiao Fan said.

"I hope it will be approved by the Board early next calendar year," he told journalists on Friday after an agreement on the allocation of the first facility of the loan was signed.

The total sum of the loan is $1 billion.