KIEV, Sept. 4 – The growth of interest rates on international markets caused by the mortgage crisis in the United States, would only slightly impact the Ukrainian financial sector and secondary loan markets should remain unaffected, according to Anatoliy Shapovalov, first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

"87% of all our [foreign] borrowing is middle and long-term borrowing, and I think that there won't be a problem in the banking system," he told Interfax-Ukraine.