KYIV, Nov 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to conduct stress tests in the retail lending segment in 2019, First Deputy NBU Governor Kateryna Rozhkova said on Thursday.

"We cannot ignore the growth of this segment, therefore, we have planned stress testing for the next year. We already have accumulated experience and expertise in assessing the sustainability of banks, which allow us to test not only certain lending segments, but also entire sectors of the economy," Rozhkova wrote on her Facebook page.