Students and professional management assistants met during the annual workshop organized by the European Management Assistants (EUMA) of Cyprus and sponsored by Cyprus College, where they discussed the best ways to maximize one’s potential at work or while seeking a career. In all, 65 students from the Cyprus College Office Administration Club and ten experienced

— Historic milestone as BOC secures license for Russia operations   Bank of Cyprus has approved Russian loans worth USD 100 mln with over USD 250 mln under review as it races to strengthen its presence in Russia after securing the relevant permit from the Central Bank of Russia to commence operations there. Bank of

US 10-year yields hit the 5.3% mark, highest level since 2002 forcing equity markets lower and the dollar higher. Asian equity bourses are also in the red this morning, but with the Chinese market in the positive, carry trade currency pairs rebounded. Today sees the release of US import prices and retail sales and bond

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that the EU’s decision to resume talks regarding the potential integration of the Republic of Serbia (BB-/Positive/B) into the EU, after a year’s delay, is supportive of the sovereign rating. The rating remains constrained, however, by political risks stemming from the pending decision of the UN Security Council on

The CSE Council announced that it has accepted the listing of 28,469,830 ordinary shares of CLR Capital Public Ltd, which will be granted gratis to the shareholders registered as at June 4, 2007. It is noted that the above shares will be incorporated in the already listed share capital of the Company, which will rise

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a managed services contract to run Finnish AinaCom’s mobile core and service platforms, enabling the ICT and media group to launch new end-user services more rapidly and reliably with less risk. The service, which is scheduled to begin in June, includes 24-hour network monitoring. Aina Group, a media group that

PandaLabs has detected a wave of spam containing the Pirabbean.A trojan. This junk mail tries to attract users’ attention with references to the latest episode of the Pirates of the Caribbean saga. The email includes an image that looks like promotional material for the film and claims to contain a trailer. The message subject simply

Finland is the first to experience optimized mobile TV with the Nokia N77 multimedia computer. Later this month also Vietnam and India will start shipments of the N77 as consumers will now be able to keep up to date with news and sports and enjoy their favorite TV shows live on the move. The affordable