Alexis Tsielepis, Managing Director of Limassol-based Chelco VAT Ltd., has earned the coveted Expert in European Value Added Tax (VAT) diploma after achieving the highest grade ever awarded in the history of the degree. After a year and half of classes in Belgium and Barcelona, a verbal and written examination and a 105-page thesis, Tsielepis
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Stefanos Athanasiou, owner of the Madame Bar in Limassol, is in Mexico this month to take part in the finals of the Dons of Tequila cocktail competition. Stefanos was one of 17 chosen in national competitions by the local distributors of Jose Cuervo tequila who won a trip to the 250-year old distillery in La
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By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst, FXTM The lingering effect of Thursday’s dovish FOMC meeting minutes continued to punish the value of the USD in Friday’s European session. A general lack of clarity on when the US central bank will raise rates has translated to investor anxiety which has resulted in the USD being exposed to
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. In the light of the growing official ties between Iran and Cyprus, a number of non-political emissaries from Tehran are regularly meeting senior government officials on matters of mutual trade interest. Cyprus is keen to establish some kind of favoured status relationship in the oil and gas area and, no doubt, get something out
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. Marcuard’s Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics After a tough summer with little to cheer about, investors finally got some good news on Monday. After five years of negotiations, culminating in six days of round-the-clock talks in Atlanta, the US, Japan and ten other Pacific Rim economies finally struck a deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Yiorgos Christodoulides, former Head of the Bank of Cyprus Group HR Division, join Baker Tilly Cyprus on October 21 from where he will be responsible for the audit and advisory firm’s human resources in Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldavia. The recent start of operations in Greece opens new challenges for the Baker Tilly network and
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Τhe EU General Court (Fourth chamber) dismissed Cyprus’ appeals against the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (for trade marks and designs) decisions in 2013 not to accept the trade names HALLOUMI and XAΛΛOYMI as “community trade marks.” A Trade Ministry official said on Thursday that the government, in collaboration with the Law Service,
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The Eurosystem resumed buying Cyprus government bonds in the secondary markets on Wednesday within the context of the ECB quantitative easing programme, with the debt bought so far totalling EUR 98 mln with an average maturity of 5.32 years. Central Bank of Cyprus spokeswoman Aliki Stylianou said that the Cypriot bond purchases are expected to
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Global & Banking Finance magazine has named Bank of Cyprus the Best Bank for Private Banking in Cyprus, confirming the bank’s successful strategy in offering bespoke solutions and integrated products and services in the area of wealth management, through the provision of banking services, investment services and discretionary asset management services. “This recognition by Global
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By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst, FXTM The dovish FOMC meeting minutes dealt a sharp blow to the already vulnerable Dollar on Thursday. September’s meeting minutes continued to lack any real direction on when the US central bank will begin raising interest rates. While most members of the Federal Reserve are giving indications that the conditions
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