KYIV, May 28 – Primary placements of government domestic loan bonds of Ukraine would move to international trading platforms Bloomberg and Refinitiv by the end of this quarter, according to a presentation of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted on its website in relation with the launch of the link with Clearstream securities depository.

"The secondary will be concentrated at international trading platform (expected till the end of 2019)," the NBU said.

The central bank said that currently mainly OTC-traded securities on the secondary market are recorded at number of local stock exchanges. Its volume in Q1 2019 was almost UAH 40 billion, while the volume on the primary market was up to UAH 60 billion.