CYPRUS: NPLs down €944 mln in 3Q

Non-performing loans, the scourge of the island’s banking system with troubled mortgages accounting form just under half of all loans, fell EUR 944 mln or 4.2% in aggregate in the third quarter

CYPRUS: Unemployment at 11%

The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 8.7% in November, down from 8.8% in October and from 9.8% in November 2016, the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since January

CYPRUS: New CFAs receive Charter Award

The CFA Society of Cyprus welcomed its eleven new charterholders at a special ceremony in Nicosia, in the presence of Transport, Communications and Works Minister Marios Demetriades. The eleven new charterholders acquired