March sovereign debt statistics

Обзор облигаций 28.04.2015 he MoF's end of March data shows a significant increase in debt in US dollar terms, but a slight decline in local currency terms (see table below). Local currency weakened significantly at the end of February, causing sovereign debt in February to increase UAH500.10bn but decrease US$10.79bn. In March, the opposite occurred. Strengthening local currency caused outstanding debt to decline in local currency terms but to increase significantly in US dollars, mostly due to new borrowings. The official exchange rate was UAH27.8/USD at the end of February. However, the rate's decline to UAH23.4/USD at the end of March caused government domestic debt to increase by more than US$2.0bn (in US dollar terms). However, external debt rose in government borrowings and the guaranteed portion of sovereign debt. IMF loans increased in March when Ukraine received the debut tranche of the EFF program, and were accounted for partially as government debt (to the state budget) and guaranteed debt (to the NBU reserves and guaranteed by the government). Other types of debt did not change significantly.