On 30 March, the draft law on banks was adopted in the first reading it was supported by 267 deputies

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The Verkhovna Rada will be able to proceed to the consideration of the second reading of bill No. 2571-d “On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine concerning improvement of some mechanisms of regulation of banking activities” after the Easter holidays. This was stated after the meeting of the “Servant of the people” on 13 April, first Deputy head of the faction “servant of the people”, Alexander Kornienko, reports “Interfax-Ukraine”.

“If we take Wednesday, the day after tomorrow, changes in regulations, and we have a suspicion that they block the resolution, as a blocked “earth”. We will need a week to unlock… in fact, after Easter we will be able to unlock and sign the bill on the regulation. It will come into force next week after Easter or early may, we can move on to reduced consideration of the bill on banks”, – said Kornienko.

He added that the relevant Committee may consider amendments to the bill in a more liberal procedure.

“You can go on the so-called clause-by-clause consideration, when considering each article and vote regardless of the number of amendments, and all the initiators of the amendments are given a certain time, e.g. two minutes, in fact in every article is the hour… According to preliminary calculations, the Committee on the financial, tax and customs policy approximately seven working days to consider in itemized mode,” – said the MP.

March 30 at the extraordinary session of Parliament a bill was passed in the first reading it was supported by 267 deputies.

The draft law proposes to introduce a ban on the return of nationalized banks former owners. This document, among other things, will make it impossible to return the largest Ukrainian Bank – nationalized in 2016 PrivatBank, Kolomoisky, said the people’s Deputy from “public Servants” Nikita Poturaev.

The managing Director of the International monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva pointed out that the enactment including this bill will move forward quickly improvement of the parameters of the new agreement with Ukraine on the loan.

According to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, within two weeks after the adoption of laws on land market and on banks Ukraine may get $1.5–2 billion, and the total amount of assistance increased to $8 billion With help from the world Bank and other donors, Ukraine can count on $10 billion.