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Ukraine received $841 million from the World Bank under Canadian guarantees to cover already-incurred pension expenses. The funds do not increase benefit payments but merely patch a hole in the budget, which sustains social obligations through new debt.
A debtor has the right to choose one account and use the amount up to 17,294 hryvnia per month, even if the funds are arrested due to debts.
Over two years, the cost of one day of war has increased by a third, while budget revenues are falling instead — Russia is hitting precisely those sectors that feed the treasury.
While Brussels seeks a formula for accountability over Russian assets, Ukraine's defense budget deficit has already reached $27 billion — and the clock is ticking by the month.
The ECB President once again dismissed rumors about early resignation, but the very story involving memoirs and negotiations regarding the WEF demonstrates how politicized the question of her successor has become.
A bank is offering to buy a subscription for 129 UAH to receive discounts and cashback later — but the benefit depends on whether your spending falls within the categories determined by the bank.
The largest recapitalization of Chinese banks in 20 years demonstrates not the strength of the state, but the depth of problems it is attempting to contain within the financial system.
The National Bank spent almost $4.85 billion to maintain the exchange rate, but international aid did not cover this — reserves will last for four months of imports, marking the tightest buffer in recent months.
The adoption of bills on taxation of parcels will make it possible to receive funding from partners in the amount of approximately 4 billion euros, the Ministry of Finance announced. However, the Verkhovna Rada has already rejected this idea twice — and it now depends on the deputies whether Ukraine will see this money.
Chris Rokos is moving his tax residency to Greece — and taking with him a sum that the British government will have to find elsewhere. This is not a story about greed, but about how tax policy competes in the global market for the wealthy.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau believes that a senior SBU official was "on the payroll" of a criminal group that protected a network of fraudulent call centers.
The regulator has permitted banks to accept property rights to revenue as collateral — this is the second package of economic support measures in a month.
The government promises sole proprietors quarterly reporting and auto-filling of declarations, but this is an advance before the cancellation of VAT exemption for the simplified tax system — a condition of the IMF tranche worth 1.45 billion euros.
The cryptocurrency market is increasingly responding not to its own news, but to U.S. labor market data — and this is changing the rules of the game for retail investors.
The Cabinet closed September payments to defenders at the expense of the internal defense reserve, but this decision highlights the main budget vulnerability – dependence on external assistance that still needs to be approved by the Council.
The banking law was written in such a way that even a convicted top manager of a state bank formally retains their authority if they have internet access. The Finance Ministry acknowledged that the state, as a shareholder, is practically powerless to dismiss its own appointee.
The National Bank of Ukraine is demanding the removal of the head of Sens Bank over suspicion of money laundering and a hidden management system that has been in operation since pre-war times — but the government must do this because the bank's supervisory board lacks even a quorum.
A commemorative coin with a face value of 1 hryvnia is not just a collector's souvenir, but a reminder of the day when Ukrainians exchanged suitcases of cash for a new currency at the rate of one hundred thousand to one.
The National Bank traced the payment chain back four levels and found no cash — only a network of shell companies and banks that have "as many questions as Sense does."
Hetmantsev called the conversation with the IMF mission "extremely difficult" not because of the figures, but because of politics: the money is already there, what's lacking is votes in parliament.
Moscow's attempt to blur the sanctions issue at the G20 has encountered a firm rebuff from Washington — and this demonstrates just how narrow the room for negotiation remains.
The memorandum with the Fund set deadlines back in July, but as of the mission's arrival, some of the commitments remain on paper — and this will be the topic of discussions, rather than the fact of cooperation itself.
The USA demonstrated that punishing an entire bank requires just one "shadow" branch — Washington cut off Banque Misr's office in the UAE from the dollar system over operations benefiting Iran.
State Bank didn't just ignore financial monitoring — it created a procedure that technically and documentally disabled controls on demand. This raises questions not about one manager, but about how many such "loopholes" still exist in the system.
The U.S. Treasury is recording record government debt and record bond yields simultaneously — a rare combination that the market is reading as a warning signal.
The protection systems of financial monitoring were breached not through hacker attacks, but by a routine administrative command to "send to the server" — and that's the most troubling aspect of this story.
A basic school supply set this year exceeds the four thousand hryvnia mark, while full preparation for the school year can consume a quarter of a family's monthly income. We figure out how to plan a budget, avoid unnecessary purchases, and make smart use of seasonal offers.
A record of 52.13 hryvnia per euro is not market panic, but rather the result of global dollar weakness, to which the hryvnia is pegged. For businesses trading with the EU, the difference is already noticeable in prices.
Luigi Mangione has confessed to the murder of the head of the largest health insurance company in the USA — a case that exposed the anger of millions of Americans toward the healthcare insurance system.
Statements by Lavrov and Russia's Defense Ministry about the unacceptability of a ceasefire cost the Russian stock market 4.29% in a single day — investors reacted harshly to signals that the war would continue.