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The Cyprus IT Community on Thursday announced its formal partnership with the Lebanese IT Syndicate, as an increasing number of Lebanese tech companies consider relocation to the island. The Lebanese ...

Germany’s financial watchdog has filed a criminal complaint against Greensill Bank’s management for suspected balance sheet manipulation, according to people briefed on the matter, the Financial Times reported ...

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will open its first-ever physical store outside the United States on Thursday. It is a first step in a global plan for expansion that is ...

The future for Cyprus professional services is to use its vast know-how and experience in international markets, and to do this, planning is needed, Marios Klitou, CEO of Baker Tilly ...

Just because cars are going electric, is not to say they are getting boring. Rather the opposite: the move towards electrification is producing some of the hottest automotive propositions in ...

Indigenous people from Brazil and Colombia sued retailer Casino in a French court on Wednesday over the selling of beef linked to land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon, campaigners ...

Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday launched a new state-backed loan scheme for businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, replacing existing programmes that have seen struggling businesses borrow ...

Cyprus on January 4 activated the beneficial owners register, thus completing the transposition of the 4th AML Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on ...

Germany’s financial watchdog has taken direct oversight of day-to-day operations at Greensill Bank, as the lender’s ailing parent company warned that its loss of $4.6 billion of credit insurance ...

Britain’s big four banks amassed more than £200 billion ($277.52 billion) of new deposits last year as customers reined in spending through pandemic lockdowns, far outstripping extra lending to struggling businesses ...

The market for Cyprus office real estate is forecast to fall 10 per cent to 15 per cent in aggregate office demand this year, reports Wire-FS, an independent real estate asset management ...

Volvo’s entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of automakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the ...

A film called Nobody is to be released on Friday – it tells the story of an innocent person who inadvertently becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord. Know who’...

Turkish Airlines posted a net loss of $836 million for 2020, according to a report on financial results released on Monday. The Turkish national airline, which is 49.12 per cent owned by the ...

A revamped Alitalia, renamed ITA will start with 45 planes, have around 4,500 workers and get just over €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in state support, less than half of what was previously envisaged, newspaper ...

The world’s biggest central banks will happily live with higher inflation and investors now aggressively betting on a quicker end to monetary stimulus are all but certain to be ...

Bitcoin is forecast to become an important instrument in international trade, as well as a means to protect businesses from forex risk, according to a report released by Citigroup’s ...

AstraZeneca sold its stake in rival COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna for roughly $1 billion over the course of last year as the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker cashed in on the meteoric rise in ...

By Andrew Rosenbaum and Karim Arnous As an architect Yiannis Armeftis has done much to beautify Limassol. Now, as a leader of the newly established initiative in Limassol, he has ...

In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million. The ...

Britain’s government plans to launch the world’s first sovereign green bonds for retail investors as part of its push to create a net-zero-carbon economy by 2050. The savings bonds ...

China’s rare earths are underpriced due to vicious competition and face low resource utilisation, which would lead to a race to the bottom, the country’s industry minister said ...

“Househusband”, popular on manga apps and in print, plays with gender stereotypes at a time of social change in Japan. The strip has been made into a TV drama, with ...

Much like an abandoned mansion that is falling apart from negligence, the Lebanese economy is decaying day-by-day as the ruling political parties stand by and watch. Unable to produce a ...