Cyprus Business News

UK travellers to the European Union, and others from outside the union, will need a €7 electronic visa waiver by the end of next year, TTG reported on Wednesday. Rules to ...

“Despite Brexit, despite the pandemic, the export of business services from Cyprus to the UK seem to have continued at a normal rate,” says Marios Klitou, CEO of Baker Tilly ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus has released its Quarterly Financial Accounts (QFA) publication, providing aggregated data on the financial assets and liabilities in the financial sector. The latest results, which ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday its board of governors approved a $650 billion allocation of IMF Special Drawing Rights and said its largest-ever distribution of monetary reserves would ...

Pfizer raised the price of its Covid-19 vaccine by more than a quarter and Moderna by more than a tenth in the latest EU supply contracts, the Financial Times reported ...

A data centre is storage for bits and bytes, but it is also a store of value In the General Theory, John Maynard Keynes defined that concept: “Why should anyone ...

“Many data centres in Europe have taken advantage of the stability and clarity of GDPR to make compliance with it a selling point,” writes a researcher. “This may involve helping ...

“The culture for business in Cyprus is gradually changing becoming more accepting to Private clouds and collocation options, and gradually to public clouds as well. This mentality has been changing ...

Hellenic Bank, RCB Bank and the Bank of Cyprus emerged with good performance on the European Central Bank’s 2021 stress tests, according to the statistics released by the central bank ...

By Antoniou Markos, economist Acquiring real estate has always been one of the most stable investments the average person could make in their life. This is confirmed by George S. ...

As Cyprus boldly steps into the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, data centres are multiplying in order to meet the growing demand of businesses that recognise the island’s potential as a ...

“For Cyprus to grow as a data centre destination, the government needs to provide incentives such as subsidy schemes for private investment (nothing exists today for data centres like for ...

“Secondary locations in Europe are set for growth as the continued trajectory of Europe’s five main markets – doubling in size in under five years – is unsustainable. Demand for lower ...

“Many may feel that the cloud will take away a certain level of traditional controls, whilst the contribution of the previous IT generation may decline or their value will decrease. ...

Bringing Cyprus farming out of what is almost a 19th century mindset is a huge challenge with a raft of cultural and economic obstacles to overcome. There is a fantastic ...

There are millions of euros ready to deploy from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) to modernise the energy sector. But parliament may not be ready to make the ...

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, is about to undergo a technical adjustment that will significantly alter the way transactions are processed, as well as reduce the supply of the ether ...

“The problem in Cyprus is that businesses don’t trust proven technologies like ours. They have a superstitious fear of letting an external company manage their data. It doesn’t ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has confirmed that the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority has approved the EAC’s new fuel rates and basic prices for energy produced from renewable ...

“Overseas companies, for example, show great interest in Cyprus data centres, because Cyprus is part of the European Union, and thus is under the regime of the General Data Protection ...

The Ministry of Finance has released the provisional results of its Estia housing loan subsidy scheme. From the 4,374 completed applications received, the ministry has approved 802, roughly 18 per cent of the ...

The Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry has released a statement on companies in Cyprus and the energy efficiency regulations affecting them. The ministry specifies that companies that do not ...

Turkey’s central bank raised its year-end inflation forecast to 14.1 per cent on Thursday. In a report released by the Turkish central bank, the bank’s governor predicted inflation, which ...

Canada’s e-commerce giant Shopify announced record second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as consumers continue to spend big online. The company’s revenue rose 57 per cent to $1.12 billion for the quarter ...