The national Bank of Ukraine, October 31, sold $200 million
The national Bank of Ukraine on the last working day of the week sold $ 200 million to meet the demand of the Ukrainian credit institutions.
" the results of the October 31, foreign exchange intervention on a single exchange rate of the National Bank sold the currency in the amount of 199, 96 million dollars at the rate of 12, 95 UAH per dollar. Participation in the intervention took 72 Bank. Sale exchange was carried out in order to meet the demand of credit institutions for foreign currency for the needs of their customers, according to the report of the NBU.
in September, the NBU to support the hryvnia has prohibited the issuance of foreign currency for payment cards, in addition, the national Bank introduced mandatory conversion of remittances in the hryvnia and slowed down the procedure of acquisition of foreign currency on the interbank currency market.
Also, the NBU in support of the hryvnia decided on September 2 five times to tighten the requirements for open foreign exchange positions of credit institutions and extended for 3 months limit the issuance of foreign currency deposits and the purchase of the currency fifteen thousand hryvnia per day.
" Sale of currency was subject to prior submission of Bank one application to purchase foreign currency from the National Bank of Ukraine, the volume of which may not exceed 10% of the announced volume of intervention, " reads the press release of the NBU.