Banking and Finance

Turkish organised crime boss Sedat Peker on Sunday released his seventh video in a scandalous series about government and organised crime that has garnered 70 million viewers, according to Social Blade. ...

HSBC has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk or offer the digital coins as an investment to customers, because they are too volatile and lack transparency, its Chief ...

The Group of Seven top advanced economies are close to an accord on the corporate taxation of multinationals, paving the way for a global deal later in the year creating ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that in a battle between fiat and cryptocurrencies, his support is with crypto. Two days ago, Musk assured ...

“I’ve never seen an economy that feels as good as the US today,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told CNN Business. “The economy is booming. It’...

France, with the support of the EU Commission, is preparing sanctions against Lebanese politicians, intended to target their unwillingness to form a government despite the country’s nearly complete collapse. ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a proposal to “end the pandemic” with $50 billion in financing for vaccinations, the organisation said in an note on Friday. The proposal’s ...

The Bank of England set out plans on Friday to make its 20 billion pounds ($28.4 billion) of holdings of sterling corporate bonds better aligned with government goals to achieve net zero ...

The government should begin gradually withdrawing the support schemes it has promulgated during the pandemic crisis, the Central Bank of Cyprus said in its Annual Report and Financial Stability Report. ...

Germany’s top-flight soccer league has scrapped plans to sell a 25 per cent stake in its overseas broadcasting rights after resistance from Bundesliga clubs concerned about private equity firms meddling ...

By Pavlos Loizou, managing director, WiRE The Cyprus market for office space is expected to decline 10 per cent to 15 per cent as companies adopt the remote working model, Pavlos Loizou, ...

Hellenic Bank has been ranked by Global Finance magazine among the top banks in the world because they managed to rapidly and effectively adapt to the new circumstances created by ...

Some examples of funding €40 million will go to SMEs and councils and communities €20.5 million for energy efficiency for homes and renewables €78.4 million for improvement business competitiveness €96 million for improvement of ...

Bitcoin’s smaller rivals are eroding its share of the $2 trillion digital currency market. Of the dozens snapping at its heels, most have little use beyond financial trading – but few ...

Cyprus has one of the lowest percentages of workers who usually work from home in the European Union a report from the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) has revealed. Cyprus vs ...

The City of London’s ‘Golden Age’ as Europe’s financial capital is over following Brexit, but it will remain a major and profitable centre, NatWest bank chairman Howard Davies ...

The European Commission wants to propose in 2023 a more unified way of taxing companies in the European Union, hoping that such rules, which have failed to win support in the ...

The Cyprus business and professional climate, which had deteriorated in March 2021, has strengthened significantly in April of this year, according to a report by the University of Cyprus Economic Research ...

“Our business has survived many wars, but this crisis is different,” says Hani Bohsali. Businesses that have been operating in Lebanon for more than 100 years, are today struggling to survive, ...

An unexpected rise in inflation in the US has pundits yapping across the globe about the dangers of inflation. Consumer prices in the US rose 4 per cent on an annualised ...

The classic ransom is a suitcase full of unmarked U.S. dollar bills. Bitcoin’s role in the Colonial Pipeline hack shows the global currency of crime has a rival. ...

Global ratings agency S&P on Friday affirmed its long-term sovereign credit rating on Israel at “AA-/A-1+” and maintained its outlook at “stable”. Despite security and political risks ...

The EU Commission’s attempt to harmonise tax rules and to limit advantages enjoyed by large companies in low-tax jurisdictions has suffered severe setbacks. On Wednesday, the General Court by ...

Paris has said it will delay a European Union financial services deal with Britain until Prime Minister Boris Johnson grants European fishermen fair access to UK waters, a source familiar ...