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A London court on Wednesday approved a £10 billion-plus ($14 billion-plus) class action against global payments processor Mastercard (MA.N) that claimants said could entitle 46 million British adults to roughly £300 each if ...

The Bank of Cyprus has chosen TeamMate+ Audit as its solution for a number of challenges to internal audit, according to a case study published on Wednesday. TeamMate+ Audit, produced ...

Cyprus’ €1.2 billion Resilience and Recovery Plan (RRP) was approved by the EU on July 8, and there are already today a number of projects close to completion, and others in full ...

The total assets of investment funds increased by 11 per cent in June 2021 from March 2021, according to data released Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus. Total assets of the investment ...

Huawei Technologies’ chairman said while US sanctions have choked its smartphone business, it will not give up and plans to eventually return to the industry’s “throne”. In 2019 former US ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham announced on Tuesday that they have developed a new Covid-19 test capable of providing reliable results in less than 10 minutes,. The test was first ...

The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is seen largely as a defeat for US influence – thus eventually affecting US markets and the dollar, and a grand opportunity for China. “...

Cyprus was among the smallest producer of potatoes in the European area, according to a recent report from EuroStat. Our island produced 80.3 thousand tonnes in 2020, the report showed, placing Cyprus ...

A white-colored, feminine-looking android was standing imperturbably inside a lab of Cairo’s Ain Shams University, with members of her development team and reports via a touch screen on her ...

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday informed the public that, at its meeting held on the 5th April 2021, CySEC decided to impose an administrative ...

Germany plans to sell up to a quarter of its 20 per cent stake in Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) over the coming weeks, the German finance agency said on Monday, citing positive ...

Gold prices were steady on Tuesday, hovering near an over one-week peak, as support from safe haven demand amid rising Delta variant cases offset pressure from a firmer dollar. Markets ...

GlaxoSmithKline and its partner CureVac have seen promising test results for its “second-generation” vaccine which targets Covid-19 and variants in one shot. GSK and CureVac teamed up in February in ...

British employers plan to increase staff numbers by the most in more than eight years over the coming months and few intend to make staff redundant when government furlough support ...

Sterling steadied against the dollar on Friday as the greenback weakened following a weak reading of consumer sentiment, but the British currency was still on track for a second week ...

Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has breached new highs, building on the record-breaking dealmaking streak from the beginning of the year that has been aided by low ...

Former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier last week called for a five-year moratorium on all immigration into the EU — a move that would effectively ban British settlement and all others, ...

Protesters have marched in cities across France for a fifth consecutive weekend against rules compelling them to show a Covid-19 health pass for daily activities, but in lesser numbers than ...

As cryptocurrency prices rally across the board, pushing the combined crypto market firmly over $2 trillion for the first time since May, some bitcoin and crypto investors are feeling confident the ...

Holiday company TUI Group (TUIGn.DE) said on Thursday a surge in bookings from Germany had driven a recovery from the pandemic slump and an easing of travel restrictions in ...

‘Nobody’s running the country’ said Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh complained on Saturday decrying the chaos and violence that are spreading right across the nation. At the ...

Recent developments have seen one major manufacturer’s high-end graphics cards becoming easier to find, with the increased availability being reflected in a gradual drop and stabilisation in terms of ...

Oil prices dipped on Friday and ended the week little changed after weathering concerns from banks and the International Energy Agency that the spread of coronavirus variants is slowing oil ...

A former official has accused the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) of manipulating inflation data, Ahval reported on Wednesday. Turkey’s last inflation report in July was at 18.95 per cent. This ...