News Ukraine Loans: For Ukraine's mil-tech startups, access to credit remains a battlefield
When a bank asked Ukrainian defense tech company TAF Industries to pledge its assets as collateral for a simple bank loan, the company faced a dilemma: it couldn't reveal the location of its manufacturing facilities. To prove the factory existed, TAF came up with a bold workaround — blindfolding bank officials and driving them to the site. "It worked — they gave us a loan," Volodymyr Zinovskyi, CEO at TAF Industries, told the Kyiv Independent in a cafe in downtown Kyiv. Well into the fifth ye
News Ukraine Loans: EU approves €90bn loan for Ukraine as pipeline is turned on ending deadlock
Oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline into Hungary and Slovakia were halted at the end of January (file pic) Ukraine says it has resumed pumping Russian oil through a pipeline into Hungary and ...
News Ukraine Loans: KKR Shifts Benchmark on LBO Loan as Market Embraces SOFR
In another step forward for a new benchmark lending rate, KKR & Co. switched to the regulator-approved Secured Overnight Financing Rate from Libor in the middle of marketing a buyout financing on ...
News Ukraine Loans: Morning Brief: ‘Ready to make loans to Ukraine’
We are ready to make loans to Ukraine,” she said in Kyiv. CBC News reports that the crisis along Ukraine’s border has strained the country’s finances, and that, since 2014, Canada has been a major ...
