KYIV, Nov 2 – The amount of the first tranche under the new Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could be $1.5-1.9 billion, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Kateryna Rozhkova has said.

"We recently had a monetary briefing where the NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii said that [the tranche] could be received by the end of this year. As for the sum [of the first tranche], I think that it would be some $1.5-1.9 billion," she told reporters at the BEPSinUA forum in Kyiv on Thursday.