Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of May 15
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
On Wednesday, May 13, Visa Token Service added 28 new international partners to enhance the security of digital payments, including Portmone payment system and state-owned PrivatBank.
“These new partners will contribute to make digital transactions safer using tokens of both one-time and recurring payments based on Visa accounting data. Tokenization replaces the 16-digit Visa cardholder account number with a token, which just Visa can unlock, protecting the main card number from defrauders,” Business Wire said.
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of May 14
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 14/05/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Pharmaceutical manufacturers of Ukraine register clinical trials of medicines for the treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19), Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has said.
“There are internal enterprises that register clinical trials of medicines, which they produce in our country. Currently, they are Farmak, Borschahivsky Chemical Pharmaceutical Plant, Darnitsa pharmaceutical company, Biopharma and Interchem. They are trying to create medicines to treat COVID-19, including symptomatic ones. For example, Darnitsa brought in a substance for the production of hydroxychloroquine, while Biopharma registered a clinical trial of Bioven,” he said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, May 13.
PrJSC Severodonetsk Azot has resumed production of liquid carbon dioxide, and its production capacities will allow shipping about 1,500 tonnes of marketable products per month, Group DF said in a press release.
The decision to expand the range of manufactured products due to liquid carbon dioxide, which is not part of the main product line, was made in order to increase the margin of the business.
Production of liquid carbon dioxide became possible after the restoration of the full production cycle at the enterprise and the start of ammonia production, the report said.
PrJSC Severodonetsk Azot is one of the largest Ukrainian chemical enterprises. It has been part of Group DF since 2011. Its core business is production of mineral nitrogen fertilizers.
According to the statements of the enterprise, in 2019 the company received UAH 6.091 billion of net profit against UAH 162.211 million of net loss in 2018. The company’s revenue increased by 2.3 times, to UAH 1.066 billion.
