Banking and Finance

By Andrey Afanasiev A digital euro will be one of the innovations that could change our daily life in the very near future. The purpose of the introduction of a ...

When much of the global economy locked down last year, insurers, facing estimated losses of more than $100 billion globally, reached straight for their red pens to strike pandemic cover from ...

Dogecoin lost more than a third of its price on Sunday, after Tesla chief and cryptocurrency supporter Elon Musk called it a ‘hustle’ during his guest-host spot on the “Saturday ...

The decisions by the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee on Thursday to hold rates, and to reduce the speed of its asset purchase programme suggest that the pound will ...

Europe’s consumers will feel the hit from price rises this year as companies seek to recoup revenues and cover pandemic-related costs. But for now, this is inflation the European ...

“Residential for rent is where I see a lot of capital chasing product, given the affordability constraints of buying vs. renting. The investment in this sector is typically supported by (1) ...

US employers likely hired nearly a million workers in April as they rushed to meet a surge in demand, unleashed by the reopening of the economy amid rapidly improving public ...

As part of measures to support companies facing liquidity problems due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Finance announced plans to allow partial monthly payments of VAT. “It is ...

In a major shift on intellectual property rights, the US administration has backed lifting patents of Covid-19 vaccines in order to speed up vaccination of those in need worldwide. The ...

Turkey’s central bank announced in a press release on Thursday that it chose to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 19 per cent, in a move widely anticipated by ...

The Cyprus National Recovery and Resilience Plan is expected to create about 15,000 jobs, according to a preliminary review by the University of Cyprus. The plan, which allocates EU funds of €1.25 ...

A survey released on Thursday by Citibank Hong Kong showed that the number of multi-millionaires in Hong Kong has reached 515,000, up 2.18 per cent compared with the previous survey released in ...

Limassol Marina General Manager Nikiforos Pampakas talks about how the wharf is faring and evolving. Q:How has the Limassol Marina been affected by the pandemic? A:We are now ...

CME Group, a Chicago-based derivatives marketplace, has launched Micro Bitcoin futures, further expanding its suite of crypto derivatives offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday. “At one-tenth ...

China has surpassed the United States to became the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020, according to a report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade ...

For Bank of Cyprus Deputy CEO Dr. Charis Pouangare, the royal road to profit passes through enhanced service for the customer. “This enables us to overcome many challenges. First, the ...

Consumer inflation (CPI) in Turkey rose 1.68 per cent monthly in April and annual inflation rose to 17.14 per cent, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced on Monday. Annual inflation has now ...

A new company, based in Brussels, is creating a pan-European payments service that can be used to pay online as well as in stores, settle bills between individual consumers and ...

Cryptocurrency ether broke past $3,000 on Monday to set a new record high in a dazzling rally that has outshone the bigger bitcoin, as investors bet that ether will be of ...

The German economy contracted by a greater than expected 1.7 per cent in the first quarter as a lockdown in place since November to contain the coronavirus stifled private consumption in ...

Lebanon’s public prosecutor has launched an investigation into central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had been ...

British trade minister Liz Truss expects the trade dispute over Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) to be resolved by July when a freeze on tit-for-tat tariffs expires, she ...

Bitcoin rose 6.54 per cent to $57,098.08 on Friday, adding $3,504.11 to its previous close, and analysts credited increasing interest by major investors as the driver. An expert panel at an online conference ...

The pound, enjoying a period of calm after 4-1/2 years of Brexit-linked chaos, may suffer some turmoil if an election next week raises the chances of Scottish nationalists calling — and ...