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Democrats are demanding that Bessent and Rubio resume regular sanctions against Russia, but a letter is not a mechanism but merely public pressure, to which the administration can simply fail to respond substantively.
State enterprise explained cash flows by pension payments near the front, but the money went elsewhere — and not through the channel initially stated.
TASkombankhas officially confirmed plans to merge with Idea Bank, but nothing will change for regular customers – the app, branches, and products will remain the same. Meanwhile, the deal itself is another signal that the time of consolidation has arrived on Ukraine's banking market.
28 out of 50 heads of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) central apparatus and territorial directorates chose to resign without waiting for the results of their attestation — this is the actual figure for the security service's reboot.
Tigipko Bank invested over $2 million in a new application set to launch in August, but here's what's more interesting: the management openly compared itself to monobank from the same group — and admitted they're losing so far.
JPMorgan chief linked the dollar's future to America's military might, while economists reminded that it currently has no serious competitors.
According to the investigation, Money 24/7 did not transfer funds to clients' electronic wallets, but retained the money for themselves.
# Behind the Official 7.7% Lies a Gap Between Statistics and Utility Bills — Water and Garbage Tariffs Are Rising Several Times Faster Than Food Prices
A French banking license transforms Revolut from a fintech app into a full-fledged bank for tens of millions of Europeans — and raises questions about whether customers in Ukraine will receive such status.
The capital is financing the preparation of heat networks for the heating season not through grants or subsidies, but through loans at 22% annual interest — and Kyiv residents will ultimately pay for this through the city budget.
The NBU forecasts public debt at 90% of GDP, the government at over 108%, while the KSE believes it has already exceeded 100%. The difference measured in trillions of hryvnias is not about the economy itself, but about how to classify the same funds.
Federal employees went weeks without paychecks during last year's record 43-day shutdown — now both parties prefer to pay the political price in advance rather than risk repeating the crisis before the November 3 vote.
The European Union's combined GDP reached 18.8 trillion euros, but behind this figure lies a stark disparity in living standards: a Luxembourg resident lives as if earning 3.5 times more than a Bulgarian.
Investigators believe Kolomoisky withdrew over 9.2 billion hryvnias from PrivatBank under the guise of repurchasing its own bonds — the High Anti-Corruption Court will now decide on this case.
The EU transfers another tranche of revenues from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine — this time amid a massive attack. However, while Brussels approves hundreds of millions quarterly, the 140 billion euro "reparations loan" plan remains blocked.
The funds will go toward repaying loans that have already financed the Ukrainian army and budget — meaning Russia is paying for the war it started without touching the "body" of the frozen 300 billion.
While the head of Ukrposhta was alarming citizens with new requirements to disclose their tax ID number and card number, the National Bank says the opposite: these data in receipts will become less, not more.
Money from the EU is no longer contingent on promises of new reforms — it now depends on whether the state apparatus can fulfill already signed commitments. So far, it is falling short.
The State Statistics Service recorded weak economic growth in the second quarter, while all forecasting institutions—from the government to the IMF—are once again lowering expectations for the year.
The dollar and euro are rising in price at the same time the National Bank revised its inflation forecasts downward — for families, this means more expensive travel, imports, and slower price decline than expected.
A new NBU requirement to print full names, tax numbers, and card numbers on receipts transforms an ordinary receipt into a document that is dangerous to keep in your pocket or throw in a trash bin under your window.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has demonstrated the cost of repeat offenses: a client from Russia transferred millions over years without any questions asked, while the bank simply failed to report its own failures to regulators.
July's customs revenue record is being sustained by businesses still transporting goods despite disrupted logistics — and that's precisely why this figure may be the last one so high.
The European Central Bank is preparing research aimed at demonstrating how river drying and soil degradation translate into credit losses for eurozone banks — and ultimately into more expensive loans for businesses and consumers.
Exchange rate is no longer the main argument when choosing a currency exchange service — people are increasingly paying attention to the clarity of the process rather than just the final figure.
National Guard members, police officers, and border guards defending Ukraine on the front line have been promised new incentive payments.
Gambling is officially banned in Iran, but a network of 2,000 illegal casino websites has become one of the channels through which the regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launder money abroad to circumvent sanctions.
The ERA mechanism and Ukraine Facility funds will cover budget needs only until the end of 2027 — after which a gap will emerge that current agreements with the EU do not address.
The EU Council didn't just extend deadlines — it rewrote the rules so that Ukraine would be able to receive the remaining funds from the Ukraine Facility by the end of 2027.
# Translation The tranche within the Ukraine Support Loan is an advance on future weapons supplies for the front, not a gift: sooner or later these billions will have to be repaid, and the question of "who will pay" remains open.