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Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk

Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk is Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation, and Customs Policy.

Articles

Fragmented financial oversight undermines Ukraine’s economic future

by Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk
As a direct participant in the process of establishing the new regulatory framework, I wish to initiate a public debate on the biggest challenge facing Ukraine’s financial services market: the lack of consistency in the institutional capacity of financial regulators — an issue made more pressing by ongoing military challenges. In 2019, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, enacted a landmark reform, splitting the responsibilities of the National Commission for Regulation of Financial Servic