KYIV, Oct 17 – Meetings that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk last week with bankers give all grounds to expect the increase in the quality of work to return non-performing loans (NPL), according to Head of the International Association of Banks of Ukraine (NABU) Roman Shpek.

"It was a good signal," he told Interfax-Ukraine, summing up the results of these meetings.

Shpek said that at the meeting with the head of state, the discussion mostly concerned the issue of returning funds invested in and withdrawn from the banking system (including abroad), and working with unfair borrowers who took loans and do not service them.