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We are confident enough to look into the future, and
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that is why all issues related to digitization of processes,
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simplification, remote service
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are our main strategy.
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We believe that the future lies in the transition to digital services,
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where all the necessary services can be obtained without leaving home,
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without visiting a branch.
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And this is another important direction of the bank's services development.
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Today, since the beginning of the war, we have been investing in the development of the remote service platform
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to ensure that all customers who are located elsewhere, in Ukraine or abroad,
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have access to their accounts and banking services.
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We are also currently making large investments in cloud services
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and the security of the bank account keeping.
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What I keep in mind.
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This year we have invested additional funds
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in the creation of the bank's data center, which, let’s say, is located in a safe place.
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Because previously the data centers were located in Kyiv and on the territory of Ukraine,
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but as we saw earlier this year,
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unfortunately, it is not 100% safe,
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and the bank invested in construction of a data center in a safer place.
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Regarding the main purpose of our participation in this project.
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We want to contribute to the support of small business development in Ukraine.
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As we saw this year, small and medium-sized businesses are especially important for the state.
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Specifically, in such times we, unfortunately, are living now.
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We have seen, we have witnessed how at the beginning of the war
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all the logistics chains of large businesses were actually destroyed,
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and the provision of services and goods by large companies and corporations was very complicated.
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And it was during these times that small businesses played such a vital role,
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because they were able to, they are more flexible,
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they were able to adapt
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and, in the shortest possible time, to resume the provision of services to the population.
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Thus, they supported the development of the Ukrainian economy.
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Today we have such a desire
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to support the development of small and medium-sized businesses as much as possible.
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Therefore, we are once again grateful for the opportunity to participate in this project.
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We will help with expertise, we will invite experts,
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we will work in as many parts of Ukraine as possible.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Andrii.
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Next, I will give the floor to Anna Onyshchenko.
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Supporting small and medium-sized businesses is extremely important in the current conditions.
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So please, tell us more about the Mastercard SME Index.
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What insights we got from this research.
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And also what help from MasterCard and partners to support business will be available in the centers.
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At first, thank you for the opportunity to speak to the audience.
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I thank my colleagues and partners for such splendid cooperation.
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This is already a long-standing cooperation,
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but today, as was mentioned a little earlier,
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SMB are the backbone for Ukraine,
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it is actually an extremely powerful driving force for our further development.
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Therefore, we have a tradition.
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MasterCard keeps a certain chronology of the so-called MasterCard Index surveys that we conduct.
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Currently, just recently, in June this year,
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we conducted such a wave of surveys
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and understood for ourselves the interesting contemporaneity trends,
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which, in fact, lead to the decisions that we're implementing now.
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In other words, we open those centers to meet the needs of enterprises.
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What are the needs of micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs?
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Let's take a look at these data.
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They are like that, somewhat clear to us,
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but, still, we saw a lot of optimism in them.
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Let's now reflect on this topic.
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We have received answers to the questions:
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Are you closed now? Are you working?
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Have you downsized? Are you planning to recover?
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The following responses were received.