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541. Budget 2019 goes to parliament

542. EU Commission approves ESTIA scheme

543. Bloomberg reports on J&P Overseas downfall

544. Greece's Eurobank to acquire Grivalia Properties

545. DBRS upgrades Cyprus to investment grade

546. Finance Minister: CCB the weakest link of the banking system

547. Four busted in Limassol co-op bank fraud

Four people have been arrested in connection with financial irregularities at a Limassol credit union of the Cyprus Cooperative Bank...

548. Hellenic Bank’s Economic Review

549. Shell companies ''This is over, its finished''

550. Former Cyprus Cooperative Bank boss under criminal investigation

551. Interview with Isfandyar Zaman Khan, lead specialist for finance and innovation at the World Bank

552. Dijsselbloem: Cyprus is still in search of a new economic paradigm

553. Suspected loan-shark arrested in Limassol

The Limassol District Court has remanded a 70-year-old local moneylender for seven days on multiple charges including money extortion, blackmail, and illegal loan-sharking...

554. Fitch Ratings upgrades Cyprus to investment grade

555. Bad loans in Cyprus decline by €3.28 billion since March 2018

556. Alpha Bank Cyprus unloads NPLs worth €400 million

557. IMF: The Cypriot economy continues its rapid recovery from the 2012–13 financial crisis

558. Bank share plunge fuels fears about Greece's vulnerability

559. Astrobank in talks to buy National Bank of Greece Cyprus unit

560. Fitch Ratings upgrades Bank of Cyprus

561. Cyprus back into investment grade

Cyprus got its investment worthiness stripes back on Friday as Standard & Poor’s raised the country’s credit grade from BB+ to BBB- with a stable outlook, five years following a devastating financial collapse...

562. EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager visits Cyprus

563. Hellenic mulls over selling delinquent loans

Hellenic Bank posted a €35 million net profit for the first half of 2018, with the bank’s CEO Ioannis Matsis stating that the bank is ready to launch a tender for the sale of a portfolio of non-performing exposures within the next six months...

564. Hellenic takes on 400,000 new customers

Hellenic Bank is taking on 400,000 new customers, leaving bad debt behind in the acquisition of healthy parts of state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank...

565. Moody’s thumbs up to Bank of Cyprus bad loans sale

Moody’s credit rating agency says the recent sale of Non-Performing Loans by the Bank of Cyprus worth €2.8 billion is a positive step...

566. Former trustee says Credit Unions were in chaos

Another former trustee of the defunct Cyprus Cooperative Bank speaks out, describing a world of chaos at the financial institution where lack of expertise, political pressure, and wrongdoing ruled the day ...

567. Bank of Cyprus gets rid of small business bad loans

The Bank of Cyprus says it has sold a portfolio of non-performing loans worth €2.8 billion to Apollo Global Management, a transaction that will reduce its stock of NPLs to €5.2 billion...

568. Bank of Cyprus CEO stays put through 2020

Bank of Cyprus CEO John Patrick Hourican will stay in his current position through the end of 2020, following a decision by the executive board at the largest lending institution in Cyprus...

569. Over a thousand employees choose Co-Op buyout

Over a thousand employees at Cyprus Cooperative Bank signed up for a voluntary severance package, well above the target of 900 set by the bank ahead of a takeover by Hellenic Bank...

570. Shadows loom over government’s ‘clean exit’ scenario

Greece’s bailout exit has been eliciting condescending and bitter commentary on the country’s beaches and in its near-deserted cities, as few Greeks believes their lives are going to improve or that the country’s prospects will be akin to those of other bailed-out eurozone states. Greece’s “return to normalcy” and “clean exit,” much touted by the government, appear to be happening somewhere else....