Banking and Finance

Square Inc (SQ.N) will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the payments company confirmed in a tweet on Thursday shortly before US Senator Elizabeth Warren flagged growing risks posed ...

The digital readiness of Cyprus consumers is quite well-developed, a new study shows. Consumers in the pandemic spent more using cards in supermarkets, pharmacies and on insurance, while they bought ...

Financial firms should use their experience in the COVID-19 crisis to consider how flexible working could help create a more diverse workforce but the government will not impose a model, ...

Turkey is considering a fresh capital injection for state banks but they also need a plan to deal with lingering bad debt after the lenders depleted their resources helping Ankara’...

The Cyprus Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry is well and prospering; this became clear at the the Cyprus Computer Society Annual Meeting late on Wednesday. For the Cyprus ICT ...

The European Union will propose a new agency to crack down on money laundering and new transparency rules for transfers of crypto-assets, EU documents showed on Wednesday as the bloc ...

“The global tax scene is changing: international tax developments include areas such as multinational corporations, green growth and the environment, the fight against aggressive tax planning, as well as technology ...

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday he does not expect hurdles to moving ahead with a planned global tax reform at a G20 meeting in Venice this weekend. “...

The European Commission has raised its forecast for Cyprus’ economic growth in 2021 to 4.3 per cent from 3..8 per cent in its previous forecast. This brings Cyprus closer into line with the ...

“Investment in Cyprus tourism will be socially immersive – this means that it will benefit the whole island,” Cyprus Deputy Minister for Tourism Savas Perdios told the Invest Cyprus Tourism and ...

SHIPPING has been left out of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development proposals for a global minimum corporation tax rate of no less than 15 per cent, Lloyds List reported ...

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister pushed back on Sunday against opposition by fellow Gulf producer the United Arab Emirates to a proposed OPEC+ deal and called for “compromise and rationality” ...

The latest buzzword in wealth management these days is ‘decoupling,’ because most of us in the normal world are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic crisis. But the ...

Near-term bets in favour of the dollar should be increased, a majority of analysts in Reuters polls said, who however were split on the duration of the greenback’s bullish ...

A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby’s in an online auction on ...

Almost a third of businesses that trade with the EU have suffered a decline or loss of business since new barriers to trade were introduced on January 1, according to a ...

Britain is set to secure an exemption for financial services from a new global tax system which was agreed by the Group of Seven economies to squeeze more money out ...

Do we still need banks? What role do they play in our society today? The role of banks today has not changed, despite the many changes we have gone through, ...

Europe’s sovereign control over its money is at risk if it does not push ahead with plans for a digital euro and a European payments system, France’s central ...

Onsi Sawiris, the patriarch of a family of billionaire businessmen who launched a group of multinational companies under the Orascom umbrella, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, chairman of ...

Companies making payments from the UK to the EU are seeing sharply higher fees that add up quickly, a report in Finance Monthly shows. Some European companies are also faced ...

Arian Adeli started his first company when he was sixteen. The company has been successful, and so Arian has written a book to go with it. Since then, he and ...

On a rainy day last November, China Baowu Steel Group, the world’s largest steel maker, gathered its finance department for a training session on the outskirts of Shanghai. One ...

By Pavlos Loizou, Managing Director, WiRE FS It is a paradox that currently only a handful of people in Cyprus are still concerned with the matter of NPLs. Maybe they ...