KYIV, July 30 - The working group on drawing up conditions for a tender to select partners for the management of the gas transportation system (GTS) of Ukraine will continue its work after the government makes a decision on the model and terms of the unbundling of national company Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukraine may be able to hold tenders to sell controlling stake in power companies and Odesa Port-Side Plant late 2017 or early 2018, Deputy Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Yuriy Nikitin said.

KIEV, July 27 – Total assets of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) as of July 1, 2017 amounted to UAH 973.316 billion. It is 3.48% up compared with the figure as of January 1, 2017, the central bank has reported in the Uriadovy Kurier government's newspaper.

KIEV, July 27 - Wage arrears in Ukraine in June increased by 3.1% to UAH 2.392 billion as of July 1, the State Statistics Service said. The arrears were up 33.6% year-to-date.

KIEV, July 28 – The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is investigating about 400 corruption cases, which the judiciary branch is not ready to consider, Director of the NABU Artem Sytnyk said.

KIEV, July 28 – Massive competition among developers in Kiev city and region may result in dumping and the reduction of average prices on the primary real estate market in 2017, NAI Ukraine CEO Vitaliy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 30 – The criteria for defining goodwill in banking operations and measures of the loss of goodwill introduced by the National Bank of Ukraine are not in line with international requirements and Ukrainian law, the Ukrainian Credit-Banking Union (UCBU) said.

KIEV, July 29 – Rusal (Russia) intends to complete the construction of facilities to expand the production capacity of Mykolaiv alumina plant from 1.6 million tons to 1.7 million tons in 2018.

"We will complete building facilities to expand the production capacity to 1.7 million tons in 2018," the plant said in a press release.

KIEV, July 29 – The National Bank of Ukraine has relaxed access to the Ukrainian market for international payment systems and has allowed the possibility of further functioning international online payment systems, including PayPal, ApplePay and GoogleWallet.

KIEV, July 29 – Ukraine imported 471 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas from Europe (entirely from Slovakia) from July 1 to 27, Ukrtransgaz reported on Tuesday.