The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on September 19 extended the law on financial restructuring for three years. Some 300 MPs voted for the corresponding decision.
According to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the bill supported by the MPs also provides for the clarification of legislation in order to more optimally conduct the relevant procedures by the banks. In particular, it is allowed to conduct a joint restructuring procedure for several debtors who are related parties but have different creditors, the document clarifies conditions for the assignment of claims in a financial restructuring procedure and the norms regarding concentration, which should facilitate the restructuring process in terms of coordination with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. In addition, the rules regarding the determination of the moment of reimbursement for creditors’ losses, providing for the satisfaction of claims through mortgage, were clarified.
According to the report, the National Bank believes that the next, no less important task, is creating a full-fledged secondary market for distressed debts and developing the corresponding infrastructure.
“It is necessary not only to solve the problems of working with existing bad debts, but also to think about the future. With the intensification of lending, new non-performing loans (NPL) will inevitably appear, so it is necessary to create civilized conditions and instruments for effective work with NPL in order to prevent their accumulation on the balance sheets of banks in the future,” the NBU press service said citing Kateryna Rozhkova, the first deputy governor of the NBU.
Vinnytsia authorities plan to launch the first phase of an innovation and technology park in the territory of Krystal (Crystal) plant in 2021, investment in the project is estimated at UAH 200 million, the director of the Vinnytsia City Council economy and investment department, Vitaliy Pohosian, has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“This is the former industrial territory of the giant plant Krystal. It is now operating, but to a lesser extent, so we took unused buildings into municipal ownership … The project [of an innovation and technological park] is fully funded by the city budget. The cost is estimated at approximately UAH 200 million. We’ve received permission from the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate. We don’t focus on getting the maximum rental income, it’s important for us to fill the park with high quality residents,” Pohosian said on the sidelines of the conference on industrial construction Industrial 2.0 in Kyiv.
According to him, the total area of the park will be 8,500 square meters, the height is three floors. It will include more than 100 offices for 1,000 people. It will host the Center for Enterprise Development, co-working space, an event zone, an office center, a startup accelerator, the first children’s technological park, etc.
“We are creating an eco-system for creative industries in the city. Donetsk National University is operating next to the facility, which moved to us from Donetsk. Therefore, it will be a win-win system – employers will be able to get qualified workers, and students will get job,” he noted.
As expected, the park will be commissioned in stages starting in 2021.
Arsenal Insurance (Kyiv) for the six months of 2019 increased the volume of KASKO premiums by 33.6%, to UAH 383 million, according to a press release from the company.
“According to data of the Insurance TOP rating of insurers, the company showed the highest dynamics of growth in insurance premiums among the top five players (33.6%), as well as a high level of insurance payments (48.9%),” the press release said.
The company also reports that its share in the KASKO market exceeded 10% (the entire market collected UAH 3.77 billion).
The company insured more than 25,000 cars under KASKO contracts (7.33% of all cars insured under KASKO in Ukraine), including private car owners and corporate clients. OSAGO premiums grew by 7.4% and amounted to UAH 80.5 million.
It is also noted that for the first half of 2019, the insurer reimbursed for losses under KASKO insurance contracts to its customers in the amount of UAH 187.5 million, while OSAGO claim fee payments amounted to UAH 41.9 million.
The opening of all tenants of the first flow of Cherry Mall in Vyshneve, Kyiv-Sviatoshynsky district of Kyiv region, is scheduled for late September 2019. “By the end of September, all stores and outlets located on 3,400 square meters of the first floor will open in the new Cherry Mall with a total area of 18,000 square meters,” Project Manager, partner of UTG (an exclusive agent for renting out retail space in the Cherry Mall) Artem Neposedov said.
According to him, in particular, the first floor of the Cherry Mall includes Allo, Master Zoo, Farmacia, Italia del Gusto, Aurum, lifecell, D&P, Beer market, Coffee Beans, Hazelnut Chest shops and others.
In addition, in the Quarter of Gifts with an area of 240 square meters, Snuffbox, Mobi bug, Express manicure, operators of accessories and leather goods will begin working.
The shopping center has five levels, the total area is 18,000 square meters, lettable area is 15,000 square meters. At the same time, the occupancy of the shopping center as of September 12 is 90%.
As reported, in August 2019, Fozzy Group, the commercial and industrial group opened a new Fora supermarket with an area of 1,500 square meters in the Cherry Mall, expanding the food retail network to 244 stores.
According to company estimates, attendance at Cherry Mall in the first year will be about 15,000-18,000 people a day with the prospect of further growth to 20,000 people.
The diesel fuel deficit in September may reach 60,000 tonnes, which is about 10% of the expected volume of consumption, said A-95 consulting group Director Serhiy Kuyun. According to him, the deficit, in particular, is facilitated by the actions of the Energy Customs, whose inspections suspended the shipment of imported diesel fuel at Yuzhny port.
“Yuzhny has stopped. It’s the second most powerful sea transshipment in Ukraine. One day’s worth of fuel shipment remains. The tanks contain 27,000 tonnes of diesel fuel from Greece, which have been transported here for several years. According to the latest data, the energy customs is preparing refusal documents for registering this batch … But the problem is that these 27,000 tonnes clogged the terminal, making it impossible to receive two more tankers carrying 30,000 tonnes scheduled to arrive in the second half of September. There is also decline in shipments from Belarus and still an empty pipe from Russia,” he said on Facebook.
Kuyun on Wednesday said due to the shortage the rush component in the price of railroad batches of diesel fuel reached UAH 2,900/t, an increase of more than 10%.
