Ukraine announces issue of 10-year euro-pegged eurobonds – Finance ministry

Ukraine has announced the issue of new 10 year eurobonds pegged to euros, the Finance Ministry has reported on its website. “The new EUR-denominated Reg S/144A senior unsecured notes are offered with a bullet maturity of 10 years,” the ministry said on Wednesday. FCA/ICMA stabilization applies, the ministry added. In the middle of June 2019, Ukraine placed … Read more

Ukraine ranks 2nd in the ranking of Internet cheapness

Ukraine was ranked second in the rating of the cheapness of the Internet, compiled by the British consulting company BDRC Continental together with the provider Cable.co.uk. In total, the ranking includes 206 countries. Ukraine has become the second country globally in terms of Internet cheapness. According to the study, the average cost of a fixed-line … Read more

Govt expands list of energy sector companies banned from being privatized

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has expanded a list of energy sector enterprises that are not subject to partial privatization and approved a list of facilities which will be banned from being privatized. The government plans to consider the relevant bill on the list of state-owned enterprises (SOE) that are not subject to privatization … Read more

Zelensky signs law on countering raiding

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the law on amending the Land Code of Ukraine and some other legislative acts to combat raiding adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on December 5, 2019. According to information on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on January 13 the document was returned with the signature … Read more

President signs law on compliance of NCER activities with Constitution

The president of Ukraine has signed the law amending certain laws of Ukraine regarding the provision of constitutional principles in the energy and utilities services sectors. “Returned with the signature of the president,” according to the official website of the Verkhovna Rada. According to information on the parliamentary website, the document was registered under No. … Read more

Antitrust agency permits EssilorLuxottica to buy largest Ukrainian eye-glass network Luxoptica

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has permitted EssilorLuxottica French-Italian holding, a large player on the global eye-glass, optic equipment market, to acquire Luxoptica, the largest Ukrainian eye-glass network with 176 shops. According to a report of the committee, the regulator permitted Essilor Nederland Holding B.V. (the Netherlands), fully owned by EssilorLuxottica, to acquire over 50% … Read more

Cadogan waiting for license renewal, suspends operations at Bitlyanska licensing site

Britain’s Cadogan Petroleum with assets in Ukraine has suspended the activity at the Bitlyanska licensing site in Lviv region due to the expiration of the current license on December 23, 2019. The company is awaiting license renewal and renewal of works, the company reported on its Facebook page on Friday. Cadogan recalled that in August … Read more

Banks with Russian capital have worst results of stress tests

Ukrainian banks have started posting the results of their stress tests conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on their websites. So, the state-owned PrivatBank and Ukrgasbank, as well as UkrSibbank, OTP Bank, Credit Agricole Bank, ProCredit Bank and Kredobank did not need additional capital according to the results of stress tests. The estimated … Read more