Meritkapital Ltd., a Cyprus-based, CySEC licensed investment firm (#77/06) with an FCA licensed company in London, announced three key recruitments in its efforts for growth within the Emerging Markets fixed income space, the firm’s niche area of expertise. A valuable new member of the firm’s Emerging Market Sales and Trading team is Nathalia Ermolitskaya
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. By Antonis Loizou F.R.I.C.S. – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate Valuers & Estate Agents I recently wrote about real estate and celebrities and how their “name” and owning real estate in a certain project can affect property prices. I would like to expand this to include celebrity “locations” and their
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There is growing popularity in Germany of adding stories to existing buildings as a quick and affordable way to create new living space and attractive penthouse condominium units, according to the Immobilien Zeitung. Planning applications for this type of development have surged – the Federal Office of Statistics revealed that 52,300 permits to create
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Frankfurt-based BS PayOne, one of Europe’s leading providers of payment technologies, is entering the local card payments and clearance market, competing head-on with banks-owned JCC Payment Systems. JCC had become a monopoly after it successfully prevented FBME Card Services to deploy in the market, having gradually built up a respectable market share. However, when
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Revenue from tourism saw a significant increase in May this year and the first five months, the statistical service Cystat reported. On the basis of the results of the Passenger Survey, revenue from tourism reached EUR 291.5 mln in May 2017 compared to EUR 244.7 mln in the corresponding month of the previous year,
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Seasonally adjusted unemployment declined to 10.8% in June, down from 11% in May and 12.9% in June 2016, according to Eurostat. More specifically the unemployed in Cyprus were 46,000 individuals, down from 54,000 a year ago, 7,000 of which aged under 25 (or 20.3% – unchanged since May and down from 29% or 10,000 individuals
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The Finance Ministry raised EUR 100 mln in a 13-week Treasury bills auction on Monday with a negative yield for the seventh consecutive month. “During today’s 13 Week Treasury Bills Auction, tenders for a total amount of EUR 218 mln were submitted, out of which, EUR 100 mln total nominal value have been accepted
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The total debt of households and non-profit institutions stood at EUR 22 billion in the first quarter of the year, remaining at the same level as in the previous quarter, according to quarterly financial accounts published by the Central Bank of Cyprus. At the end of March, households’ cash and deposits were EUR 29.02
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* 19 countries apply to host medicine’s agency; 8 chase EBA * Two EU agencies employing more than 1,000 people in London will move to the continent, with 19 members states vying for the European Medicines Agency, eight for the European Banking Authority, and of these six countries are bidding for both. On
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. When the 2012-13 crisis broke, the catch-phrase so adored by politicians at the time was the “real economy”, saying it was the true source of national output and that it was also the biggest group to suffer, because this segment of the economy represented the private sector. The least affected at the time
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