The key policy rate continues to play an important supporting role in ensuring the sustainability of the FX market and protecting international reserves. Keeping the key policy rate unchanged, together with other NBU measures, was instrumental in substantially increasing the attractiveness of hryvnia instruments. This has bolstered households' interest in hryvnia deposits and domestic government debt securities in recent months.
‒  The size and significance of the cross-border banks will no longer be related to the size and fiscal strength of a single country but rather to a region that reflects its operations in a more appropriate way.