On July 30, 2015, the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine adopted Resolution No 493 On Amendments to the Regulation On Regulating by the National Bank of Ukraine of Liquidity of the Ukrainian Banks (hereinafter – Resolution No 432). This resolution is intended to make the use of liquidity regulation instruments more efficient.

Commenting on this resolution Director of the Open Market Operations Department Serhii Ponomarenko said: “This resolution is designed to expand the list of institutions operating at the stock market (securities market operators) where the National Bank of Ukraine will perform operations in domestic sovereign bonds trading. This will make it possible to expand the potential circle of eligible traders, as well as to contribute to boosting liquidity in the secondary domestic sovereign bonds market and promote competition in the stock market.