. The Greek Cypriot diaspora organisations are meeting in Nicosia this week for their annual conference, where the local political leadership think they have a captive audience and will preach to the converted, praising the support that Cyprus receives from the overseas community, but promising little, if any, support. The World Conference of Overseas
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. By Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents The casino is here and the location is Zakaki village on the western outskirts of Limassol. This area, together with the adjoining Asomatos and other immediate villages, have been so far considered to be the lowest income
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* 19% of the world’s top 2,500 companies have appointed a Chief Digital Officer * Nearly one in five (19%) of the world’s top 2,500 companies have appointed an executive — commonly known as a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) — to oversee the digital transformation of their business, according to the results of a new
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. * IMF doubts Athens can manage debt mountain * By Costis Stambolis Two weeks ago, Greece made an unexpected move and returned to the capital markets with a 3 bln euro bond sale of which half came from existing investors who swapped their holdings of debt maturing in 2019. Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime
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. * ISO 37001 introduction by CYS in September * By Pambos Kammas, MBA Cypriot society has always been plagued by bribery phenomena of all sort, most of which have not emerged to the surface, resulting serious offences of corruption. In the era of media and information, it is difficult to ignore, unfortunately, some major
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The Harmonised Price Index decreased by 0.1% in July compared to the same month last year, but remained stable when compared to the June Index, the statistical service Cystat reported. For the January to July period, the HICP recorded an increase of 1.0% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. Compared to
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Moody’s rating agency said it expects the volume of new loans in 2017 to be the highest since 2013, suggesting that an increase while maintaining strong underwriting standards and best practices, will be credit positive for local banks. The rating agency cited the quarterly bank lending survey issued last week by the Central Bank
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The state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) is set to implement a new student loan scheme and a scheme for the purchase of building plots by the end of August, taking advantage of recent amendments to its law, that expand its activities beyond the market of primary residence. The HFC also said that in September
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Bank of Cyprus was one of the winners of ‘2017 Business Excellence Awards’, an international recognition granted to some of the world’s most prestigious firms, presented by ‘Corporate Insider’, a leader platform in providing international business news. The award recognises businesses that distinguish themselves in innovation and growth. This year’s winners have shown great
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University of Cyprus academic Marios Polycarpou has recently been awarded the IFAC Fellow Award by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for his contributions to the theory and application of intelligent control and learning systems. IFAC, a worldwide federation of 52 national member organisations, is tasked with promoting the science and technology of
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