SAP Cyprus and Partners is organising the SAP Forum on Wednesday, October 15, at the Hilton Cyprus in Nicosia that looks at “Innovation through Simplification” with presentation by key SAP associates from Cyprus, Europe and the region. The full-day forum, that is free for participation, will focus on the “perfect storm” of breakthrough technology innovations
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The government of the Republic of Cyprus is taking all necessary measures to deal with the Turkish provocative actions in Cyprus` Exclusive Economic Zone following Turkey`s most recent violation of Cyprus` sovereign rights in its EEZ and its decision to carry out a seismic survey in specific blocks, assigned to international companies within the Republic
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The European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), which comprises the national shipowners’ associations of the European Union organised a Board of Directors meeting on 10 October, in Copenhagen. Capt. Dirk Fry, Board of Directors Member of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, represented the Cyprus Shipping Industry at this important meeting. During the course of this high level
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Cyprus trade deficit has recorded an increase of €184,16 million in the first eight months of 2014 compared with the corresponding period of 2013 mainly due to the increase in imports from the EU Member States, according to the preliminary data released Friday by the statistical Service. The trade deficit rose in the period January
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* Energy future, privatisations very promising * New business and mobile banking * Decisions on overseas footprint * Must exit ELA as soon as possible Wilbur L Ross Jr, the self-made billionaire specialising in leveraged buyouts who is pumping 400 mln euros into Bank of Cyprus, is confident that the island’s economy will get a
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. The Risk Watch Column By Dr Alan Waring In Cyprus, we live in a democracy characterised by government by the people and/or their elected representatives: constitutional guarantees, free and fair elections, a parliament of elected members, separation of legislature and the executive, an independent judiciary, and so on. Nevertheless, neither the functionality of its
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. By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management Cypriots are angry and you can’t blame them. They have been through one of the worst economic rip-offs in history. Their bank accounts have been raided. Their major industry has been destroyed. Unemployment is at record levels. Cyprus is essentially governed by foreign technocrats. For
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the EU’s merchant bank for investments in troubled and emerging economies, is lifting its exposure to the Cyprus market to about €1 bln, having said this week it will up its funding facility to €800 mln, up from the initial €600-700 mln pledged until the end of the
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Alpha Bank, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility program and its sensitivity towards human values and needs, participated in the Special Olympics Cyprus’ Program, “Adopt an athlete”. As of this, the Bank “adopted” four swimmers who took part in the European Special Olympics 2014, held from 9 to 21 September 2014, in Antwerp, Belgium.
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CEOs rely on their intuition and experience when making business-defining decisions, as concluded by the ‘Gut & gigabytes: Capitalising on the art & science in decision making’, a new survey report by the Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by PwC. According to the new survey report, the great majority of executives around the world – 94%
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