Tuesday, 30 January. While the whole world was busy with the "Kremlin Report" from the United States, in Ukraine Privatbank decided to reduce the network of branches, while Sologub urged Ukrainians that they would soon change their attitude to the course. About this and not only in the details below: The US presented the "Kremlin report". In the US, the so-called Kremlin report was published, which was passed on to the Congress, with the names of 210 representatives of the entourage of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Forbes, the state of the oligarchs from the "Kremlin report" is estimated at $ 400 billion. Privatbank plans to reduce the network of branches in 2018. Privatbank plans in 2018 to reduce the network of branches and branches to 2,061. The bank also plans to increase the ATM network by 3% to 7 795 within a year, and the network of POS-terminals will grow by 13% to 170 000. It should be noted that as of January 1, 2018, the network of bank branches comprised 2,243 branches. By the way, today in one of the branches of PrivatBank the security service detained and handed over to the police a resident of the capital who tried to pay about 300 thousand fake hryvnia. The possibility of obtaining an IMF tranche before the spring is already unrealistic - the NBU. Deputy Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Dmitry Sologub stated that Ukraine will not have time to receive a tranche from the International Monetary Fund in the first quarter of 2018. Why did the country miss this opportunity? Read. Also, Sologub predicts that in a few years the Ukrainians will change their attitude to the dollar. He noted that the dollar exchange rate is not the most important economic indicator in Ukraine, so in a few years of stability the population will change its attitude to currency fluctuations and the banking system. IKEA can open a furniture factory in Ukraine. Furniture factory for transnational corporation IKEA may appear in Lviv region. Back in December 2017, representatives of the corporation said that they are studying the Ukrainian market and plan to open a store in Kiev within 2 years. High-speed Internet in schools can appear in the next six months. According to General Director of Data Group Mikhail Shelemba, the connection of 10 thousand. objects will cost about 100-200 million USD. Ukrzaliznytsya may start buying diesel fuel abroad. This will be done in order to create another fuel supply channel, which will help it to achieve the best price for itself. Russian Sberbank can sell its "daughter" to Arabs. Sberbank of Russia is discussing the possibility of selling a controlling stake in its subsidiary bank DenizBank. However, to date there is no accurate information about the prospects of a possible transaction.

Original article: Finance Day, January 30: "Kremlin Report" from the US, before spring without a tranche, fewer branches of Privatbank.