During the meeting with FX market participants Deputy NBU Governor Ekaterina Rozhkova informed that the National Bank endorses the cancellation of 2% tax to the Pension Fund from FX transactions, Liga reports.
The market participants applied to NBU with the request to allow changing information about set exchange rates within the day depending on the region. The regulator assured that the document, referring to this question, is at the stage of approvals from the Ministry of Finance and SFS.
However the most painful topic of the meeting became the problem of existence of the currency exchange “black” market. “We do not control the illegal exchange offices, because the National Bank is the regulator of the legal financial market”, Ekaterina Rozhkova reminded. She promised that the National Bank will assist financial companies in resolving this question.