Creation of a reliable and comprehensive infrastructure for attracting investments, including borrower risk insurance, would boost the interest of private investors in Ukraine. This was discussed during the meeting between First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko and Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange Julia Hoggett on November 28. The meeting took place as part the visit of Ukrainian delegation to the United Kingdom.
“Risk insurance, proper modeling and the use of reliable institutions will be the key to ensuring that the interest of private investors in Ukraine can be realized as early as possible. Our British partners, the London Stock Exchange, are interested in becoming a platform for dialogue between private investors and Ukraine,” said Yuliia Svyrydenko.
The First Deputy Prime Minister stressed that it is important to ensure cooperation with other initiatives to restore investment in Ukraine, first of all, war risk insurance, work with investment funds, identifying priority sectors for investment, cooperation with international financial institutions.
In particular, the priority sectors for investment in Ukraine are defense industry and agricultural complex, metallurgy and metal processing, machine building, energy, mining, furniture and woodworking, logistics.
The parties also discussed other areas of cooperation, in particular, involvement of the UK financial market in the Advantage Ukraine initiative.
“We are currently actively working on building high-quality and effective instruments of investment into reconstruction of Ukraine. In a few months we will be able to present completed projects involving leaders of the financial market,” said Yuliia Svyrydenko.