Banking and Finance

“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 ...

Bitcoin fell more than 10 per cent after Tesla Inc will no longer accept bitcoin for car purchases, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday, citing long-brewing environmental concerns for a ...

By CITR Cyprus, part of the Impetum Group The Italian model, with a ‘bad bank,’ has seen success in managing NPLs. Business shutdowns, deferrals, job losses, credit default, and many ...

Amazon on Wednesday won its fight against an EU order to pay about €250 million ($303 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg as Europe’s second highest court dealt a blow to ...

The way in which post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland are operating may not be sustainable for long, Britain said on Tuesday, as firms count the cost of disruption and ...

For economist George Syrichas, former executive director and board member of the Central Bank of Cyprus, currently advisor to the Economic Research Centre, University of Cyprus, the Cyprus economy will ...

The loans on the books of EU banks that remain under long-running moratoria are more likely to underperform, with credit quality particularly uncertain in Cyprus, Italy, Portugal and Hungary, Moody’...

Ethereum’s ether climbed to a new peak for a third straight day on Monday on continued optimism about further growth in decentralised finance or “DeFi”, although some analysts said ...

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 ...