Banking and Finance

The Cyprus economy has slowed as businesses and consumers await the full rollout of vaccines which should mean an end to restrictions that are limiting economic activity, according to a ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan again on Wednesday defended former finance minister Berat Albayrak’s policies, despite the fact that Albayrak’s policies brought the country perilously near to a currency ...

Murex, one of the most important financial software producers in Europe, will soon open offices in Cyprus, according to tech industry sources. The company is planning a move to Nicosia. ...

The European Commission has reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer for the supply of four million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Member States in the next two weeks in order ...

Germany hopes that improved relations with the United States under US President Joe Biden will open the door for possible joint sanctions against China and Russia over human rights and ...

On Tuesday, EU Brexit chief Maros Sefcovic announced plans to take legal action against the UK over Northern Ireland measures, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The action is expected ...

For the first time, Cyprus employers must rebrand themselves to attract top talent, notes Katerina Andreou, founder of hrinnovate.org. As the chart shows, there is a fraught global shortage ...

Lex Greensill’s mission to “make finance fairer” has taken him from the sugar cane fields of Bundaberg in Australia to the gold embossed halls of Buckingham Palace. On Monday, ...

“Businesses in Cyprus support each other. It’s a real community,” comments Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO at Tototheo Maritime & President at WISTA International in an interview with the Cyprus ...

Borsa İstanbul General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla announced his official resignation on Monday. He had previously stated that he was taking a six-month leave from his post. Former Halkbank Deputy ...

The dollar held near a one-month high against the British pound, which traded at $1.3819, and a three-month high against the euro, which stood at $1.1904. The dollar hovered near three-month highs ...

Brent crude futures surged above $70 a barrel on Monday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, while U.S. crude touched its highest in more than two years, ...

S&P Global, late on Friday, affirmed its rating for Cyprus at ‘BBB-/A-3’ for long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings for Cyprus. The outlook ...

Britain’s top EU adviser David Frost on Sunday defended Britain’s unilateral move to smooth post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, over which the EU has promised to ...

The first independent digital banking platform in the United Arab Emirates launched on Sunday, a neobank hoping to become a leader in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Dubai-based ...

By deciding to leave production unchanged for another month at its meeting on Thursday, OPEC+ risks causing the oil market to overheat. The expanded group of oil exporters defied expectations ...

The world of foreign exchange is divided into three parts: Majors, minors and exotics. Most traders concentrate on the majors and ignore the rest. But there is ‘gold’ to be ...

The rollercoster ride in bitcoin since the start of the year has not dampened wealth manager Jim Paulsen’s enthusiasm for the cryptocurrency. Yet Paulsen, chief investment officer for Leuthold ...

21CY01 Technical Support for capacity building and methodological support for the effective preparation and implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan 130,000 21CY06 Preparation and implementation of green taxation reform in ...

FC Barcelona, along with fellow Spanish LaLiga football teams Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna have been ordered to repay millions in state aid., The European Court of Justice, the ...

Payments firm Square Inc agreed on Thursday to buy a majority stake in rapper Jay-Z’s Tidal music streaming service for $297 million in a deal that could popularize blockchain or ...

The United States on Thursday agreed to a four-month suspension of retaliatory tariffs imposed on British goods such as Scotch whisky over a long-running aircraft subsidy row, with both sides ...

Will the EastMed pipeline bypass Cyprus? by Dr. Charles Ellinas The Greek and Cypriot press abounds with news and denials that a new plan has emerged for the much-talked about ...

European Investment Bank survey has shown that 51 per cent of Cypriot firms have cut investment during the Covid-19 pandemic, well below the EU average of 45 per cent. The survey, which ...