Moving forward, expansion of the inclusive financing scheme is expected to indirectly foster banking innovation and financial market deepening.
Why has the NBU returned to using the key policy rate? At the start of the large-scale military attack on Ukraine, the NBU refrained from taking any key policy rate decisions. This approach was justified. Due to a strong psychological pressure caused by the war, changing the key policy rate would not be sufficient to stabilize expectations and to accumulate and maintain hryvnia assets.