KYIV, June 8 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will extend for another half a year the norm of compulsory sale of foreign exchange earnings in the amount of 50%, the scheduled revision of which is to be held in June, bankers interviewed by Interfax-Ukraine believe.

"In the current situation, it is unlikely that the National Bank of Ukraine will change the norm on compulsory sale of foreign exchange earnings, which remains a central element of the currency regulation structure, for the abolition of which the central bank needs to verify the absence of systemic risks for the exchange rate stability and, consequently, for inflation," Chief Economist of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Oleksiy Blinov said.