Ukraine's central bank allocates over $165 mln for refinancing of three banks

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on December 13 allocated UAH 4.6 billion (US$165.1 million) for refinancing Ukraine's state-run Oschadbank and Ukrgasbank, and well as Alfa-Bank, according to the NBU website.

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In particular, the state-owned banks received UAH 2 billion ($71.8 million) each, while UAH 625 million ($22.4 million) was forwarded to Alfa-Bank, it said.

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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian banks' debt before the National Bank on refinancing loans amounted to UAH 66.333 billion ($2.4 billion) as of December 1, 2017, which was 4.6% up from November 1, 2017.

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