Banking and Finance

By George Christou Comment The increase in bank charges has become a big public issue in the last few weeks, the political parties, consumers associations and interest groups mounting a ...

Its stability has been assured after weathering two major crises By Maria Demertzis Anniversaries are always a good time to reflect. The euro celebrates the 20th anniversary of its introduction ...

Piraeus Bank (BOPr.AT) has agreed with investment firm Varde Partners to buy its controlling stake in Trastor Real Estate Investment Company for about 98 million euros ($111.04 million), the bank said ...

Britain-based digital banking app Revolut launched commission-free stock trading in the United States on Wednesday, a move that will see it compete with online brokerages such as Robinhood Markets Inc ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) announced on Thursday that it has signed a new collective bargaining agreement with the Cyprus Union of Bank Employees (Etyk). “Today’s agreement is ...

Innovation is finally weakening the market grip of Britain’s “Big Four” banks, but “challenger” lenders are finding it slow and expensive to build up market share, the Financial Conduct ...

By George M. Georgiou Debates about central bank independence have traditionally focused on monetary policy, specifically the setting of interest rates. A central bank, it is argued, should be free ...

The Recovery and Resilience Plan will facilitate the path towards improved productivity and significantly affect GDP growth, the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus (CypERC) has said in ...

Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) has taken a small stake in Britain’s Monzo as part of a fundraising, the digital bank said on Friday, ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) has offered its staff the option of working from home for the first two weeks of 2022, with a caveat that all employees are expected ...

For global financial markets, the second year of the COVID pandemic has been nearly as dramatic as the first. The stocks bulls have stayed firmly in charge, surging energy and ...

UK’s FTSE 100 ended 2021 with its best annual performance in five years on the back of gains in commodity-linked and industrial stocks although the index fell in Friday’s holiday-thinned ...

Emerging market stocks broke a two-year winning run, but were set to end the last day of 2021 on a positive note on Friday boosted by China shares, while Turkey’s ...

Sterling hit its highest level against the euro since the end of February 2020 as easing concerns about the economic impact of the pandemic boosted risk-on currencies, while analysts expect more ...

The current account balance of Cyprus and its international investment position improved in the third quarter of 2021, according to provisional data released by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank ...

Eurobank announced this week the acquisition of an additional 2.7 per cent stake in Hellenic Bank, raising its total share in the Cypriot bank to 12.6 per cent. Eurobank acquired approximately 11.19 million ...

The Ministry of Finance on Wednesday responded to the criticism of the last few days about the increase in bank charges and calls for its intervention, making it clear that ...

The Turkish lira weakened for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, tumbling 5 per cent and eating further into the huge gains made the previous week, as worries persisted over soaring ...

In May, San Diego-based Emily was feeling flush from a year of double-digit gains earned from trading stocks. Equity options, which some fellow stay-at-home investors were dabbling in, would juice ...

The decision of Cypriot commercial banks to impose new charges on clients has sparked a fierce reaction from customers, trade unions, some political parties and interest groups. In the case ...

Workers at BNL, the Italian arm of French banking group BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), went on strike for the first time since the 1990s on Monday in protest at back ...

The Bank of Cyprus Borrowers Association (Syprodat) on Monday called for an immediate reaction from the central bank and from parliament over plans by the commercial banks to hike their ...

Loan restructurings in the Cypriot banking system edged close to €2 billion in the first ten months of 2021, marking the highest figure according to Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) records which ...

Turkey’s Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) imposed an 8 million lira ($751,314) fine on the local unit of cryptocurrency exchange Binance over violations found during liability inspections, the Anadolu news agency ...