Pishnyi explained why the NBU seeks to replace “penny” with “step”

The National Bank plans to replace the “penny” with a “step” in order to complete the monetary reform, which was announced by the head of the NBU Andriy Pyshny at the “Money & Banking: Money and Banks in the History of Europe” conference, the regulator reported, writes UNN.

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“The National Bank aspires to actually complete the monetary reform started in 1996, to restore historical justice by eradicating the Russian name “kopey” and replacing it with the Ukrainian “step”, – emphasized the head of the NBU Andriy Pishnyi.

The participants of the conference, as indicated, “positively assessed the National Bank’s proposal to change the name of the coin from “kopeck” to “step” and initiated the signing of an open letter from the scientific community in support of this initiative.” “At present, it has been signed by 50 participants of the conference,” the National Bank said.

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