KIEV, Sept. 21 – The government has agreed to a proposal of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry to attract a $3 billion government-secured loan from Export-Import Bank of China for State Food-Grain Corporation.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – System Capital Management, Ukraine's largest holding company, has decided to merge its First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) and Dongorbank, which ranked 14th and 24th, respectively, in terms of overall assets at the middle of 2010.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The state-owned enterprise Ukrvaktsyna has lodged a suit at a federal court in Portland (Oregon, United States) against a U.S. company. The suit seeks damages for the fraudulent purchase of vaccines, the press service of the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Ukraine's Coal Industry Ministry and China Development Bank signed a memorandum of cooperation in the coal industry in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Ukraine's Interpipe holding has confirmed it has obtained the consent of bondholders to reschedule $200 million in eurobonds, on which it missed a coupon payment in February, on its own terms.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The Ukrainian Municipal Economy Ministry has proposed to the World Bank to increase the financing of the open component of the City Infrastructure Development project by $200 million.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The Ukrainian population will not consider the coming placement of Ukrainian T-bills as an attractive investment instrument, and their issue will not impact the credit and financial market of the country, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The plans of the Economy Ministry to introduce the state regulation of fuel prices could lead to a serious destabilization and gradual degradation of the market, according to A-95 consulting group.

LONDON, Sept. 23 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide 150 million euro for the development of Raiffeisen International's subsidiary banks in Ukraine, Russia and Romania, a source in banking circles told Interfax.

The source said that the bank's board of directors approved this decision on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The mortgage crisis in the United States will not affect Ukrainian banks, according to the chairman of Dnipropetrovsk-based PrivatBank, Oleksandr Dubilet.

"Ukrainian banks will not feel the impact of the U.S. mortgage crisis, as the resource base of our banks mainly consists of funds taken from the public and companies, and the liquidity of the largest banks is in line with the toughest requirements of the banking surveillance [system]," said Dubilet.