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
Ukraine's next competitive advantage in attracting private infrastructure investment may not be another financial guarantee, but greater digital transparency. A recent study argues political risk insurance and first-loss guarantees should be paired with technologies that give investors a window into projects long after the financing is approved—
European Union member states have approved changes to Ukraine's reform roadmap, paving the way for more than €8.3 billion in additional financial support to Kyiv in 2026 under the bloc's Ukraine Facility. The Council of the European Union said it has adopted a decision amending
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a €50 million emergency loan to help Kyiv maintain heating, electricity and other essential municipal services amid continued Russian attacks on the city's energy infrastructure. The financing, backed by a 25% first-loss guarantee from the European Union
Rakuten Symphony has secured a grant from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to expand field testing of Open RAN technology with Ukraine's largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, as part of efforts to modernize the country's telecommunications infrastructure. The project will deploy a
Active fighting, widespread landmine contamination and wartime relaxation of environmental assessment procedures have disrupted Ukraine's environmental monitoring system, creating potential bottlenecks for reconstruction, according to a new report. The report argues that rebuilding environmental oversight is a prerequisite for reconstruction. Without reliable environmental monitoring, reconstruction projects could face
Ukraine's private war-risk insurance market has expanded since the launch of its first large-scale commercial facility 18 months ago, with more than 1,000 industrial and commercial assets now quoted for coverage market-wide and more than 100 ultimately insured to date, according to FortuneGuard, the
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The European Union should launch an initiative to help Ukraine attract major international companies by combining targeted investment incentives with stronger de-risking measures, according to a new report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). The proposed "Big on Board" initiative aims to mobilize the
Ukraine's agricultural sector has largely recovered from the immediate financial shock of Russia's full-scale invasion, and investors should expect future profitability to depend more on efficiency than wartime resilience, according to a new report by Agrohub and the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB). The study projects
