The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) intends to impose restrictions on certain types of bank operations in case if the bank’s risk management system is recognized as ineffective. The document comes into force on September 11, 2018. The regulator may also require the bank to suspend or terminate certain types of transactions.
The final decision will be made based on the evaluation of the viability of the bank’s business model, analysis of the provided actual and forecast balance sheet data, profit and loss statements, transactions with related parties, and regulatory capital components.
Consumer prices in Ukraine, after the decrease by 0.7% in July, in August remained unchanged, while since the beginning of the year their growth was 3.6%, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has reported. According to the agency, in annual terms (August 2018 from August 2017) inflation slightly grew, to 9% compared to 8.9% in July, which, however, is below 9.9% in June and 11.7% in May.
Underlying inflation in August 2018 amounted to 0.1% after minus 0.1% in July, while in the eight months it reached 3.5%.
In annual terms, the rise in the basic index slowed to 8.7% from 8.8% in July and 9% in June.
As reported, inflation in Ukraine in 2017 accelerated to 13.7% compared with 12.4% in 2016, which, however, is significantly lower than in the past years, in particular 43.3% in 2015 and 24.9% in 2014.
The National Bank at the end of October 2017 downgraded the forecast for inflation in 2018 from 6% to 7.3%, in January 2018 to 8.9%, while the Cabinet of Ministers from 7% to 9%.
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The number of Green Card international insurance contracts signed by the members of the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU) in January-July 2018 increased by 6.16% compared to the same period in 2017, to 425,111.
According to the MTIBU, the amount of accrued insurance premiums increased by 24.9%, to UAH 764.4 million.
The amount of insurance claim fee payments for the seven months rose by 0.6%, almost to EUR6.895 million.
The number of paid claims grew by 1.65%, to 2,957.
The MTIBU is the only association of insurers that carry out compulsory insurance of vehicle owners’ civil liability for harm caused to third parties. Its members are 56 insurance companies, including nine full members of the bureau that have the right to sign Green Card contracts.
The public restaurant Urban Space 500, being launched under the social franchise contract of the Urban Space 100 Project in Ivano-Frankivsk, will be opened in Kyiv in December and will be located at 9, Hrynchenko Street, the founder of the Teple Misto platform, businessman, restaurant-keeper (the 23 restaurants chain) Yuriy Fyliuk has said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“Urban Space 500 is a social franchise that Teple Misto handed over to the NGO Insha Osvita. This organization began to collect social investors, selected the management company – Druzi Cafe & Bar is fully engaged in the implementation of this project. Today, they have all 500 donators. Reconstruction of the premises is under way. They are scheduled to open [the restaurant] on December 1,” Fyliuk said.
He said that the restaurant model provides for a certain number of donators (one hundred in Ivano-Frankivsk and five hundred in Kyiv), which make a one-time non-refundable contribution of $1,000. Donators become participants in a public organization, which in turn is the founder of a limited liability company that carries out operational activities.
Some 80% of the net profit of the restaurant is returned to the public organization, and its general meeting decides which city development projects to support using these funds. The remaining 20% goes to the management company.
“We received more than 250 requests from 15 countries for the replication of this experience. Today, the first franchise went to Kyiv. According to the plan, the two next cities are Kramatorsk and Poltava. There are requests from Berlin, San Francisco, other capitals of European countries, from Malaysia. It is very interesting [to realize it in] Berlin and Francisco. I think it will happen someday, but we are moving step by step. This is not easy project for it to take place. There must be a lot of factors coming together,” Fyliuk said.
