Banking and Finance

Having started in financial services in London in the early 1990s, Mark Nowell has worked with high-net-worth clients across Europe and the Middle East. He is a registered European Financial ...

Born in Cyprus, Constantinides studied law in England, and took a Masters degree in international commercial law there. He then qualified in England for the Bar, and after some initial ...

Emilios Tannousis is the Manager Wealth Management at Bank of Cyprus. With an experience of almost 20 years in the Wealth and Asset management industry he is covering the Private Banking ...

Biography Richard Thomas is the Head of EFG International’s UK Region and member of the Global Business Committee since 02 January 2019. In addition, he is CEO of EFG Private Bank ...

Britain said on Friday it would offer a fast-track visa scheme for jobs at high-growth companies after a government-backed review warned that financial technology firms will struggle with Brexit and ...

Russia has issued a clarification regarding some of the key terms in the protocol that amended the Treaty for Avoidance of Double Taxation Cyprus-Russia – the same clarification has been applied ...

Digital vaccination certificates enabling people to travel in Europe despite the coronavirus pandemic will probably be available before the summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a virtual EU summit. “...

A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City, researchers said on ...

Larnaca-based energy producer Petrolina is partnering with the London-based Lion Alternative Energy (LAE) to establish a major producer of renewable energy in Cyprus. Petrolina Solar will invest in LAE’s ...

Staggering inflation, government inaction and decaying consumer sentiment have combined to force the Turkish lira lower against the dollar and the euro. The lira is at €9.05 to the euro, and ...

In 2020, private banking group EFG International significantly grew its business with a marked acceleration in profitability, especially in the second half of the year, and demonstrated its operational and financial ...

Bank of Cyprus on Wednesday announced a loss of €171 million for 2020, but showed a promising outlook for the coming year as fourth quarter results saw total income rise to €142 million ...

Inflation returned to the euro area in January at 0.9 per cent due to a number of temporary factors, although in Cyprus it remained at a low -0.8 per cent. Cyprus ...

“We’re involved in damage control,” Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides told the Cyprus Mail in an interview. Fortunately, the government has the means to keep the damage to a minimum ...

Breakingviews Calling the bottom on Greek banks has been a triumph of optimism over experience. Still, there is reason to believe that €1.2 billion euro Alpha Bank, in which US investor ...

The Cyprus fund industry is maintaining steady growth right through lockdowns and the pandemic, and is seeking changes to its legal framework to harmonise with competitive jurisdictions. “We continue to ...

Members of Northern Ireland’s two largest pro-British parties are set to take part in legal action challenging part of Britain’s divorce deal with the European Union, the parties ...

Financial services firms have become the primary target of cyber criminals during the pandemic, according to a report in The Banker. The surge in homeworking during the pandemic has increased ...

Baillie Gifford is an investment management firm based in Edinburgh with more than £200 billion in assets under management. This fund is having an annus mirabilis. According to Morningstar’s latest ...

Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and daily volume, hit a record $2,040.62, for a weekly gain of about 12 per cent. It has currently fallen back to about $2004. It is ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’), the financial regulatory Authority of Cyprus, has launched a dedicated section on its website to serve as a Brexit Information Hub (accessible here), ...

Turkey risks being added to the 12 nations on the EU tax blacklist in May if it does not reform its practice. The latest ruling by the Council of European Ministers ...

Bitcoin touched a market capitalisation of $1 trillion as it hit yet another record high on Friday, countering analyst warnings that it is an “economic side show” and a poor hedge ...

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at “their own pace” and will ...