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Lebanon has signed the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) Charter, paving the way for the country to become a full member of the organisation and creating new opportunities for cooperation with ...

Digital Innovation Hub Cyprus (DiGiNN) announced this week that it has supported hundreds of organisations and more than 1,500 professionals across Cyprus as part of efforts to accelerate digital transformation. In ...

Cyprus’ new credit scoring system reached two months of operation today, with 986 individuals and legal entities having accessed their data, according to Artemis Credit Bureau general manager Yiannis Tomasides. The ...

The Middle East’s oil map is being rewritten at sea, as attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea push exporters towards pipelines, alternative ports and longer tanker ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has urged Cypriot businesses in the environmental and sustainability sectors to consider attending an international trade exhibition in Budapest in October, where ...

Financial entities regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) have until today, September 15, to submit a form required to calculate their annual information and communication technology (ICT) fee ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) ​may need to gradually raise interest rates further to curb inflation before an Iran ‌war-driven rise in fuel costs starts seeping through to wages and ...

Cyprus recorded 12,930 job vacancies in the second quarter of 2026, down by 3,123 vacancies, a 19.5 per cent decrease from a year earlier, according to the statistical service (Cystat). The job vacancy rate ...

Total employment in Cyprus’ broad public sector reached 78,433 persons in the second quarter of 2026, rising by 1,119 people, a 1.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to the state statistical ...

The company behind plans for a new cooperative bank in Cyprus has reported an attempted online scam to police, after discovering fake websites and social media accounts claiming to help ...

The share of adults in Cyprus participating in education and training rose to 12 per cent in 2025, up from 7.5 per cent in 2015, according to figures published by Eurostat, highlighting a growing ...

Cypriot MEP Michalis Hadjipantela asked the Association of Cyprus Banks (ACB) to strengthen protection for the main homes of vulnerable borrowers who have already repaid a substantial part of their ...

More than one in 10 consumers could be regularly using AI agents to shop and make purchases online on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report examining the future ...

International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) secretary general Thomas Kazakos has raised the organisation’s push for a toll-free Strait of Hormuz with Kuwait’s ambassador to the UK, as the ...

The Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evel) has paid tribute to businessman Andreas Laos, a long-serving member of the city’s business community and former chamber vice-president for industry, ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) has approved Eurobank Equities Investment Firm Single Member SA as a market maker for Globalwealth Group Plc shares, while also confirming that 20 million additional shares ...

Cypriot entrepreneurs flood RIF with proposals for early-stage funding The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) has received a record 284 proposals for its PRE-SEED programme, highlighting growing interest in creating and ...

Outgoing Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) chairman George Theocharides has singled out three changes which he believes defined his six years at the regulator, as a five-year review shows ...

GAP Vassilopoulos Public Ltd reported an 81.1 per cent increase in profit attributable to shareholders for the first half of 2025, despite only modest growth in revenue, according to its interim management ...

Demetra Holdings Plc repurchased 3,005 of its own shares on September 11, 2026, as part of an ongoing share buyback initiative. All four transactions executed during the trading session were processed through the ...

The Middle East’s oil map is being rewritten at sea, as attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea push exporters towards pipelines, alternative ports and longer tanker ...

Eurobank S.A. repurchased over 1 million of its own shares on Euronext Athens between September 7, 2026 and September 11, 2026, as part of its ongoing share buyback programme. The lender confirmed on Monday ...

Banks clear non-performing loans but private debt remains a problem, CBC analyst says Cyprus has largely cleaned up its banking sector’s non-performing loans (NPLs), but a substantial private debt ...

3.1 million unemployed people aged 15 to 74 in the EU moved into employment between the first and second quarters of 2026, while 7 million remained unemployed, according to Eurostat data. The 3.1 million people who ...