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Paramedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and city workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction – but the concepts are part of a advanced air mobility (AAM) ...

British supermarket group Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) has postponed all Christmas parties until the new year, fearing the emergence of the coronavirus Omicron variant could lead to higher staff absence ...

Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to cut income tax by 2 pence to the pound or to slash rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) before the next election, ...

Bitcoin shed a fifth of its value on Saturday as a combination of profit-taking and macro-economic concerns triggered nearly a billion dollars worth of selling across cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was 12 per ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he hoped that volatile foreign-exchange and inflation rates would stabilise shortly and he again promised low interest rates, after a historic plunge in ...

British airline easyJet confirmed earlier this week that it will retain its Holiday Protection Promise until 2022 in a bid to provide additional certainty during customers’ booking process. “We know this ...

The Bank of Cyprus has become the first bank in Cyprus to set up a dedicated management unit for technology companies that relocate to the island. The new technology hub ...

Company executives are beginning to consider different permanent work models for their employees as the coronavirus pandemic, and the spread of the Omicron variant, destabilize their latest return-to-office plans. With ...

Total new loans granted by Cyprus’ banks decreased by € 72.6 million in October 2021, compared to the previous month, mainly due to the significant reduction of new loans to non-financial corporations for ...

Oil prices climbed on Friday after the producer group OPEC+ said it could review its production hike policy at short notice if oil demand collapsed due to a rising number ...

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said on Thursday it had scrapped plans to develop the Cambo oilfield in the British North Sea, which became a lightning rod for climate activists ...

Sterling edged lower on Friday as the potential for earlier Federal Reserve interest rate hikes strengthened the dollar overnight, although pandemic uncertainties continued to weigh on the broader forex market. ...

Turkey’s annual inflation jumped more than expected to a three-year high of 21.31 per cent in November, data showed on Friday, further exposing the risks of recent aggressive rate cuts ...

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The modernisation of internal procedures and the adoption of a more open approach were highlighted as urgent necessities in a report by the Cyprus Ports Authority released this week. The ...

According to a report released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) this week, Cyprus’ GDP growth rate in real terms during the third quarter of 2021 is positive and estimated at 5.5 ...

The growth of online virtual worlds will help advance the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies for payment transactions but it won’t be a game-changer, according to Frédéric Chesnais, ...

Britain’s markets watchdog said it will introduce new rules on Friday to boost London’s role as a global centre for listing companies to help catch up with New ...

Turkey on Thursday accused Cyprus of violating its continental shelf by awarding an exploration licence in the Mediterranean to Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum, adding it will not allow unauthorised ...

EU antitrust regulators on Thursday fined Barclays (BARC.L), Credit Suisse (CSGN.S), HSBC (HSBA.L) and NatWest (NWG.L) 344 million euros ($390 million) for rigging the foreign exchange spot trading ...

Facebook (FB.O) could be sued by consumer groups for privacy violations, an adviser to Europe’s top court said on Thursday, in a German online gaming case that could ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed a strong supporter of his low interest rate drive as minister of treasury and finance on Thursday, replacing the last top official seen to favour ...

The cabinet on Thursday awarded natural gas exploration rights for an offshore block to a consortium made up of ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum. Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said ExxonMobil would ...

Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Christodoulos Angastiniotis expressed ‘strong reservations and concerns’ about the potential introduction of the minimum wage in Cyprus on Wednesday, adding that the current system ...