monobank, which is one of the leaders in attracting individuals to the domestic government bond (OVGZ) market, has added the first foreign currency government bonds to its mobile application in the investment section.
According to the information in the application, customers will be able to purchase dollar bonds maturing on April 27, 2023 and euro bonds maturing on December 1 this year with a yield of 3.71% and 2.41% per annum, respectively.
The last additional placement of these dollar bonds by the Ministry of Finance took place on August 30 at a rate of 4% per annum, and bonds in euro – on May 24 at a rate of 2.5% per annum.
In general, 9,195 dollar and 5,491 euro securities are available for sale in the application, the par value of which is $1,000 and EUR1,000, respectively, with a total volume of issues of 494,596 and 110,026 pieces, respectively.
As reported, the possibility of such trading in currency government bonds appeared after the National Bank of Ukraine in mid-July granted the Settlement Center for Contracts in Financial Markets (RC, Kyiv), which carries out the clearing activities of the central counterparty, a license to carry out foreign exchange transactions. Thanks to this, on July 26, the RC began making settlements in foreign currency on transactions with foreign currency government bonds, and already at the end of that month – early August, such transactions began to be concluded on exchanges.
