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2026

Primer · 7 min Liberalisation at Last Reaches the Payments Layer that Matters to Forex Brokers The National Bank of Ukraine has again loosened its wartime foreign-exchange restrictions, according to an EY alert published on 27 August 2026. The direct consequence for forex and CFD brokers is that Ukrainian residents and businesses now have a broader legal channel to move money across the border — for funding accounts, paying platform fees, and eventually for capital repatriation — which means payment routing, KYC source-of-funds logic and UAH hedging assumptions all need to be updated now, not when the central bank publishes its next communication.