PrivatBank connected payment by UnionPay cards in more than 12,000 Ukrainian online stores and online services. UnionPay cardholders now have the opportunity to pay for purchases online on any website that uses the LiqPay Internet acquiring service. Acceptance of payments using UnionPay cards is automatically enabled for all LiqPay merchants and does not require additional […]

EBRD €3 million loan to Lantmännen Axa Funds to support liquidity and working capital needs Investment supported by Japan-EBRD Cooperation Fund 

The Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky in Kiev, Ukraine, in September. An influential voice in Ukrainian affairs, he says it is time to re-establish ties to Moscow.Credit…Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters KIEV, Ukraine — In the last five years, more than 13,000 people have died in a de facto war between Ukraine and Russia — a fight, many here […]

Ukrainian startup Taplend allows you to “get money transfers from your friends on your PayPal account with no interest or fee at all” or to “borrow it from financial institutions on your bank account or card through the iOS application in just few taps.” 

Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Persollo. Muru-D will receive a 4% stake in the company.