Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of October 26
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
The Court of Appeal in Amsterdam ruled to return the “Scythian gold” to Ukraine, first we will return the “Scythian gold,” and then the Crimea,” the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“The long-awaited victory in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal! ‘Scythian gold’ returns to Ukraine. Grateful to the court for a fair decision, and to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine for the result. We always regain what is ours. After the ‘Scythian gold,’ we will return Crimea,” Zelensky said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled on an appeal against a ruling by the Amsterdam District Court in December 2016 that the Allard Pierson Museum was to transfer the Crimean treasures to the Ukrainian state.
This is a collection of artifacts from four Crimean museums.
Escher Group Ltd (Ireland) will supply a new front-office system instead of the old software in stationary offices, as well as fully automate the work of mobile offices and postmen of Ukrposhta.
The signing of the agreement between Ukrposhta and the winner of the tender of the EUR opean Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Irish company Escher Group Ltd, took place in Kyiv on October 26, 2021, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Director General of Ukrposhta Igor Smelyansky emphasized that the Escher Group software works in more than 30 postal operators around the world.
The contract value is EUR 7.8 million.
In accordance with the terms, it is envisaged to supply 43,000 software licenses, as well as technical support services during four years and software revision if necessary.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada on October 21 ratified the guarantee agreement for the Ukrposhta Logistics Development project between Ukraine and the EBRD.
Prometey group of companies in 2020 increased its EBITDA by 6.8% compared to 2019 – up to $32.6 million, according to the results of its financial audit conducted by the international company KPMG posted on the grain trader’s website.
At the same time, the company does not provide data on the profit/loss received in the past year.
Prometey in 2020 also increased its revenue by 14.8% compared to 2019 – to $254.2 million. Its assets as of December 31, 2020 amounted to $199.3 million.
“It is noted that Prometey group of companies in 2020 entered the top five (in Ukraine, 1.7 million tonnes of one-time storage) in terms of elevator capacities. In the last marketing year, the group also confirmed its title of one of the leaders in the agricultural sector, selling about 1 million tonnes of grains and oilseeds,” the grain trader said.
Prometey provides services for the storage, processing and logistics of grain and leguminous crops on the basis of 29 elevators in Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Khmelnytsky, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Odesa, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In 2021, Prometey Group plans to receive $45 million in EBITDA.
NASA has confirmed the readiness of the Blue Ghost moon lander of the American company – the developer of rocket and space technology Firefly Aerospace Inc., owned by Ukrainian businessman Max Polyakov, in accordance with the schedule of the Artemis lunar mission – by September 2023. Polyakov’s press service said Firefly Aerospace has reached a milestone in the project by successfully completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase of the Blue Ghost moon lander. Completing the CDR paves the way for building the Blue Ghost lander.
According to the Artemis lunar mission schedule, the moon lander is to land in the Mare Crisium lunar basin in September 2023. The module will deliver ten NASA payloads to the lunar surface, as well as several commercial cargoes.
This mission is a harbinger of what we see in the future: the growing number of repetitive lunar maintenance and payload delivery missions that will lay the foundation of the lunar economy. We are honored to demonstrate our ability to provide such services to NASA and our commercial customers, Firefly CEO Thomas Markusic said.
It is noted that the Blue Ghost will monitor the safe delivery of the payload during transit to the Moon and in its orbit, as well as on the surface of the Moon. The vehicles delivered to the surface will investigate the properties of regolith, the geophysical characteristics of the surface, and the interaction of the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. In addition, several demonstrations of key technologies related to navigation and sampling will be conducted during the mission.
The Blue Ghost mission opens up new opportunities for Firefly Aerospace to cooperate with NASA and other partners. We are proud of the high appraisal of our partners from NASA and are glad that we can join such an ambitious international program as Artemis, Max Polyakov said.
In his opinion, the Moon is extremely important for the more distant missions of mankind – it should become a kind of base, a fort, where the necessary resources will be produced in the future.
In such exploration of the Moon we see one of the strategic goals of the company, he added.
The Kazakh fintech company Kaspi.kz has signed a sale and purchase agreement for 100% of BTA Bank Ukraine shares, the transaction is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2022.
“We have entered into a sale and purchase agreement for 100% of BTA Bank Ukraine. It is purchased exclusively to obtain a banking license in Ukraine. This will allow us to launch fintech products, open mobile wallets, accounts, etc.,” the official website Kaspi.kz says.
As noted in the document, BTA Bank Ukraine conducts limited operational activities, it does not have branches and a loan portfolio. According to the holding, the deal will not have a significant financial impact on Kaspi.kz.
“With the banking license and payment licenses of Portmone Group, we will take a strong position and will be able to repeat the Super App strategy in Ukraine,” the report says.
The cost of the deal was not disclosed.
As reported, in October Kaspi.kz completed the acquisition of Portmone Group, an online payment platform in Ukraine, which was controlled by Europe Virgin Fund (EVF).
