FC Shakhtar has launched the Sports Innovation (SPIN) Accelerator project together with HYPE Sports Innovation, a platform that invests in the search for sports start-ups around the world. The Ukrainian club became one of 10 global partners of the project at the kick-off meeting at London’s Stamford Bridge stadium on September 5, the club’s press service said.
Along with FC Shakhtar Donetsk, the SPIN Accelerator partners are FC Koln, 1907 Fenerbahce, Maccabi Haifa FC and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
“Innovative technologies in the sports area are the key driver of changes in the market. Our goal is to identify new opportunities, to support Ukrainian sports start-ups and take them to a new level,” Yuriy Sviridov, the FC Shakhtar Communications Director, has said.
The four-month program is tailored for the unique needs of sports-technology start-ups.
HYPE Sports Innovation aims to establish at least 25 accelerator host partners by 2021. The first SPIN Accelerator ran simultaneously with three partners: University of Loughborough in London, Australia’s University of Queensland and Italian Trentino Sviluppo. Out of 33 participating startups, 12 received investments totalling $3.5 million throughout the program.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) intends to rescind switching to summer time if the European Union takes the same decision. “If the EU takes a decision to abolish the transition to summer time, the MEDT will apply to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the possibility of making appropriate changes in the procedure for setting time on the territory of Ukraine,” MEDT’s press service said.
At the same time, the press service specified that the economic rationale for the annual transition to summer time and information on changes in electricity consumption from the transition to summer time in the Ministry of Economic Development is not available.
Kharkiv International Airport’s passenger traffic in August 2018 was 94,700 people, which is 10% more than in the same period in 2017, the airport’s press service reported. The most popular regular destinations in August 2018 were Kyiv (UIA), Istanbul (Turkish Airlines, Pegasus), Warsaw (LOT), Tel Aviv (UIA), Dortmund (Wizz Air), Katowice (WIzz Air), Minsk (Belavia), Milan (UIA), Batumi (Yanair, MyWay Airlines) and Tbilisi (MyWay Airlines),” it said on Thursday. As the press service informs, this is a record indicator for Kharkiv International Airport.
In July 2018, the most popular destinations were Istanbul (Pegasus, Turkish Airlines), Kyiv (UIA), Warsaw (LOT), Tel Aviv (UIA), Dortmund (WizzAir), Minsk (Belavia), Milan (UIA), Batumi (MyWay Airlines , Yanair), Katowice (WizzAir), Tbilisi (MyWay Airlines), Lublin (Bravo Airways).
In July 2018, passenger traffic totaled 104,500 people, which was 20% more than for the same period in 2017 (87,200).
Since the beginning of 2018, the airport’s passenger traffic airport has made up 440,200 people, which is 21% more than for the same period in 2017 (364,100 people). Kharkiv airport has a runway 2,500 meters long and 50 meters wide. There are two passenger terminals with the capacity of 100 and 650 people on its territory. DCH manages the airport through New Systems AM.
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PrivatBank by the end of this year plans to launch a new online service in Ukraine to sell government domestic loan bonds to individuals via its Privat24 platform.
“Together with the NBU, PrivatBank is developing online integration with the securities depository for the simplicity and convenience of making deals in remote channels,” the financial institution said.
According to the bank, together with the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, work is underway to amend a number of regulatory acts to simplify the purchase of government domestic loan bonds by individuals. In particular, this is regulation No. 735 regarding simplification of the procedure for opening an account in securities and regulation No. 1708 regarding the division of responsibilities between the bank’s branches when settling transactions with securities.
PrivatBank said that since the beginning of the year, as part of the experiment on the sale of government domestic loan bonds through VIP branches, it sold to its private customers government domestic loan bonds worth about UAH 0.5 billion, providing more than 15% of the total portfolio growth.
Since the beginning of the year, according to the NBU, the portfolio of government domestic loan bonds of individuals has grown 3.1 times, or UAH 3.05 billion, to UAH 4.52 billion. In particular, the portfolio of the hryvnia-pegged bonds increased 5.9-fold, to UAH 1.08 billion, U.S. dollar-pegged bonds – 2.7-fold, to UAH 3.23 billion and euro-pegged bonds – 2.5-fold, to the equivalent of UAH 0.21 billion.
