Every month since Russia's full-scale invasion, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) officials have sat down with their Ukrainian partner banks to ask the same question: where are the gaps?
Those routine questions have become an unlikely source of financial innovation. As Ukrainian banks identify problems that existing financial products can't solve, the EBRD has begun developing new wartime lending tools to fill them.
Ukraine needs stronger capacity to prepare and implement projects to accelerate the deployment of reconstruction financing, said a senior European Investment Bank official. “Public sector capabilities still need to grow,” Matteo Rivellini, head of the EIB’s Ukraine Investment Team, told Ukraine Rebuild Newswire. “We have, let's say,
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is financing a €21.4 million upgrade of Dnipro's electric public transport fleet, with five locally manufactured trams now in service and further tram and trolleybus deliveries planned through 2027. The five low-floor trams were manufactured by Ukrainian producer Tatra-Yug at
