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The aim of this paper is to indicate the competitive processes on foreign markets and define the essence and position of the intelligent enterprise. The premises of competitiveness were indicated as the basis of deliberations, while subsequently the significance of knowledge in enterprises was indicated which in terms of their strategies are aimed at the achievement of the status of intelligent enterprises. Furthermore, a statistical analysis of the functioning of enterprises on foreign markets has been carried out in the context of the activities of enterprises in the direction of increasing the level of competitiveness, barriers to activities and the forms of safeguarding against currency rate risk, while also forms of supporting the activities of enterprises on the part of banks. With this aim in mind, elements of mathematical statistics were applied, as well as an analysis of co-dependencies.