KYIV, Feb 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has postponed the application of the international bank account number (IBAN) until early August 2019 from April 1, 2019, the director of the department of payment systems and innovative development of the central bank, Oleksandr Yablunivsky, has said.

"We decided to postpone the introduction of IBAN from April 1 to the beginning of August. We will officially announce this later," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.