Business

The Bank of England is reluctantly pressing on with work to create a form of digital money accessible to the general public, as commercial banks risk failing to keep up ...

Boeing on Monday launched a stock offering that could raise up to $22 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances squeezed by an over month-long strike by its workers ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said taxes needed to rise to rebuild public services and fix the foundations of the economy, and he challenged his critics to spell out how ...

If I ask you to say the first thing that comes to mind when I say “short-term rentals”, what would that be? Short-term rentals, or STRs for short, have become ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk stunned investors and analysts with plans to grow vehicle sales by 30 per cent next year, buoyed by a new, cheaper model and enthusiasm for ...

The United Kingdom’s foreign office updated its threat of “regional escalation” in its official travel advisory for Cyprus. The ministry stated that “hostilities in the region and between Israel ...

When it comes to the crypto scene, it is full of speculation and hype, especially with the notion of identifying the next big altcoin that has the potential to return ...

Financial support and advisory services are essential for Cyprus’ small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enhance resource efficiency, according to a Eurobarometer survey. The survey, published by the European Commission, ...

Cyprus has made significant progress in attracting established tech companies to relocate their headquarters to the island, but there’s a critical aspect that needs improvement – the nurturing of early-stage ...

Cyprus recorded a 9.83 per cent enterprise birth rate and a 5.8 per cent business closure rate, positioning it moderately among EU countries for business growth and stability, according to a Eurostat ...

Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has issued a stark warning that Europe’s competitiveness is slipping amid intensifying economic challenges. In a recent report, Draghi called for urgent ...

The assignment agreement is increasingly being offered as a means of securing lending instead of a mortgage and is now being adopted more by banks for customer lending. The borrower ...

Growth in pay awards by British employers stagnated during the three months to September and firms expect average wage rises to cool over the coming 12 months, according to a survey ...

The European Union said this week it had joined forces with leading venture capital firms from the region to boost investment in tech innovation in Europe, amid concerns that Europe’...

Britain’s commercial property market is returning to life after its post-pandemic freeze, albeit largely at much lower prices. Some big-ticket office properties now on sale will show just where ...

By Waylon Cunningham Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccol has his work cut out for him. Tasked with reassuring investors that the company’s coffee shops are still hugely popular in ...

Lloyds Banking Group shrugged off fears of a bank tax hike in the UK budget next week, with CFO William Chalmers saying Britain’s biggest mortgage lender would play its ...

Video game platform Roblox (RBLX.N) has said that it plans to open an office in Turkey in line with local laws if access is restored to the platform, which ...

It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back. In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting October 21: A significant share of Cypriot wealth continues to languish in low-interest bank deposits, despite alternative investment options, ...

Shares in SAP (SAPG.DE) were up 5 per cent at market open on Tuesday, hitting an all-time high of 221 euros ($239.21) after the German software company raised its full-year targets on ...

Qualcomm (QCOM.O) has announced it is teaming up with Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google to offer a combination of chips and software that will let automakers develop their own ...

Anthropic, a startup backed by Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O), released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models this week, along with a new capability to autonomously ...

Dutch brewer Heineken’s (HEIN.AS) third-quarter sales figures beat forecasts earlier this week, buoyed by higher priced and non-alcoholic beers, but full-year guidance was left unchanged. The world’s ...