The National Bank of Ukraine has published an inflation report that forecasts inflation to slow to 18.7% this year. This trend is expected to start this spring and predictably continue over the next few years. …

For the first time since 2020, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was held in a regular offline format. Among the presentations of various innovations and tools for economic growth, the UDPN project should be highlighted. It is interesting not only because it is a universal digital payment system…

Open Banking is an approach that allows bank customers to provide access to their banking data to other services, or service providers, using API. This interface is needed for BaaS (bank as a service), which is the link to connect fintech companies and banks. Examples of the use of Open…

2022 turned out to be a challenging year for the Web3 space and frankly difficult for cryptocurrencies and operations related to them. We saw a sharp drop in Bitcoin assets and the collapse of one of the largest digital asset exchanges, FTX. …

Blockchain is the latest technology for storing information and recognizing users. In essence, it is a divided database that consists of ordered chains of blocks containing the necessary information. Blockchain is most often used for exchanging cryptocurrency, but this is not its only capability, because digital documents, individual files, money…

According to open data from Opendatabot, Ukrainian banks received 11 billion hryvnias of profit from January to October of this year. Comparing with the same period of the previous year, when the income was 58 billion, we can see that profits have decreased by 5 times. Does this mean that…

According to the European Business Association, the investment attractiveness index in the second half of this year was 2.48 points out of 5 possible. This value is comparable to the analytics of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was in its most active phase. According to the survey, half of top…

In June 2022, the NBU increased the discount rate from 10% to 25% per annum. This was one of a set of measures to stabilize hryvnia fluctuations and preserve household savings. It really boosted the interest in hryvnia assets and reduced the pressure on the currency market, in particular on…

The world’s leading countries have already applied several thousand sanctions against russia, making the terrorist country the top exile for economic restrictions in various sectors. However, the main sources of income are still the sale of energy resources. They make up a large part of russia’s budget, and it is…