A technical glitch was recorded on the official website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on Monday, September 7, 2026, when publishing data on the official hryvnia exchange rate for the following day — September 8. As reported by RBC-Ukraine citing the regulator, incorrect values were initially displayed on the NBU page; however, within the same day the data were corrected and the current official exchange rate figures were published on the website. Accordingly, the values published after the correction are the ones in force for calculations and operations tied to September 8.
Regulator's Response and Plans to Prevent Glitches
The National Bank of Ukraine stated that the incident is of a technical nature and has already been resolved. The regulator emphasized that it will carry out additional work to prevent similar glitches in the future when publishing key market indicators. According to NBU information, the causes of the incident and further measures to prevent similar situations will be reviewed at a meeting of the Oversight Council for Money and Foreign Exchange Market Indicators. This decision underscores that the publication of the official exchange rate is one of the most sensitive elements of the regulator's work, as its accuracy affects the calculations of banks, businesses, and citizens.
Expectations for the Cash Foreign Exchange Market
Against the backdrop of the technical incident, experts assess the state of the cash foreign exchange market as stable. Taras Lesovoi, Director of the Financial Markets and Investment Activities Department of Globus Bank, forecast that there would be no major upheavals in the cash foreign exchange market this week. In his assessment, the spread between the interbank rate and the cash market rate would be around 10–15 kopiykas, which corresponds to the normal level of spread and does not indicate abnormal pressure on the exchange rate. Thus, in the market's view, the glitch on the NBU website should not become a trigger for sharp swings in quotes.
Contradictory Data
The materials provided to the editorial team contain a discrepancy that must be honestly acknowledged. On the one hand, the headlines of several sources (including RBC-Ukraine and news aggregators) frame the news as a disclosure of specific values — "how much the dollar and the euro will cost on September 8" — and the NBU itself states that the correct data have already been published on the official website. On the other hand, the specific numerical values of the official exchange rate (in hryvnias per dollar and per euro) are not provided in the primary materials handed to the editorial team. In this regard, the article deliberately omits exact figures so as not to substitute the regulator's factual data with its own estimates. Readers are advised to verify the current values exclusively on the official NBU website, where the corrected data have been posted following the fix.
The outcome of the incident confirmed that even technical glitches on a central bank's infrastructure can generate information noise in the foreign exchange market. At the same time, according to market participants' assessments, the fundamental picture in the cash and interbank segments remains calm, and the regulator has taken on the commitment to strengthen control over the publication of key indicators.
