KIEV, Oct. 31 - The margin between the credit and deposit interest rates in hryvnias in Ukraine in January through September 2007 fell by 1.6%, to 5.6%, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

"The margin between the average credit and deposit rates in the national currency fell from 7.2% (December 2006), to 5.6% in September," reads an NBU monetary review for Q3.