Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT CANCELS LIMITS ON MINIMAL FEES FOR NOTARIES

The Cabinet of Ministers has canceled the limits on minimal fees for services by private notaries by annulling a presidential decree of July 10, 1998. A relevant decision was made by the government at its meeting on October 31.
The explanatory note accompanying the draft document, which is available to Interfax-Ukraine news agency, says that the above-mentioned presidential decree in particular imposed limits on the minimal fees in such a way so that they would not be lower than state duty fees, which are charged by government notaries for similar services.

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FRANCE AND UKRAINE PLAN TO CREATE METEOCLUSTER FOR AGRICULTURE

Ukraine and France plan to create a joint meteocluster for agriculture, the press service of the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry has reported. “We are planning to create a joint meteocluster for agriculture and assistance to farmers. This is about bringing new technologies to the processing of meteorological data. This is necessary to obtain more accurate weather data, increase harvest and crop protection, introduce system monitoring of climate change and further modeling,” Deputy Prime Minister, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister of Ukraine Hennadiy Zubko said.
According to the report, the Ukrainian-French intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation came to the relevant agreements.
According to the press service of the ministry, the representatives of the countries also agreed on attracting French companies to the development of Ukrainian farms, investments in seed production, and on strengthening cooperation in animal husbandry, in particular, in the dairy sector.
In addition, the countries plan to develop cooperation in IT and cybersecurity, and French companies will take part in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, as well as in public procurement through the ProZorro e-procurement system.

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MORE THAN 4 000 FINTECH-STARTUPS BECOME PARTICIPANTS OF GLOBAL MARKETPLACE LET’SPARTNER

Since the launch of global marketplace Let’sPartner in April 2018, designed to become an effective platform for communication of Fintech-startups and corporates, over 4 thousand startups and 2 thousand corporations from 89 countries of the world have become its participants. This has been reported by the press service of the project with reference to its founders and authors – well-known fintech experts Anastasiya Shevchenko and Alexey Puznyak.
The new international platform is dynamically increasing the number of its participants – Fintech startups and corporations, having no analogues not only in Ukraine and in the post-Soviet space, but throughout the world.
Marketplace allows you to quickly establish partnerships between startup projects and corporate business. At the same time, in the near future, Fintech startups and interested corporations from different corners of the globe will be able to easy – in one click – choose partners and exchange direct contacts for further cooperation. At the same time, other similar projects have a closed format of participation and usually it is paid services.
Since the start of the project in April 2018, the marketplace has undergone major qualitative changes, going from a landing page to a fully functional platform for comfortable communications.
Now the work continues on the qualitative improvement of the participants’ base. The project is scaled both with the help of online registration of companies on the marketplace and with the active support of ambassadors – reputable fintech-experts in different countries.
The number of participants is growing at a high rate without investment in marketing and project promotion. This demonstrates the relevance of the platform for participants in the digital market.
According to one of the authors of the marketplace Let’spartner, founder and CEO of Fintech Solutions, general manager of Adecco Ukraine Anastasia Shevchenko, the implemented format allows to speak of marketplace as Linkedin for startups and corporations. “It is worth noting the technical capabilities of the platform,” says Anastasia Shevchenko. “By registering on Let’s Partner, participants can, thanks to the chat created on the platform, discuss business interests in a matter of minutes and exchange direct contacts”.
“In implementing the project of Let’s Partner, we tried to be as useful as possible to corporations and startups,” emphasizes Alexey Puznyak, co-creator of the Let’sPartner’s marketplace. With its help, corporations can open for the community tasks that are relevant to them, and startups, will be able to offer their services or projects as solutions. In fact, we are talking about organizing online tenders that can be effectively implemented in a very short time. ”
The collection of online-applications from startups and corporations from different countries of the world continues on the official Internet portal of the marketplace www.letspartner.co.
Project initiators are also open to applications from potential marketplace ambassadors in the CIS, Europe and America.

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