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Xoom Launches Service to Austria, Belgium, Greece, and Portugal
July 8th, 2015
Consumers save time and money sending money with Xoom Vs. bank wires Xoom Corporation (NASDAQ:XOOM), a leading digital money transfer provider, has expanded its service to include Austria, Belgium, Greece and Portugal. Xoom offers fast deposits and can deposit money in as little as 24 hours when customers ...
Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) Warning: UK Options
June 11th, 2015
The FMA warns investors against the conclusion of investment services requiring a licence with this provider The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) may, pursuant to the first sentence of Article 92 para. 11 of the 2007 Securities Supervision Act ...
Financial transaction tax unlikely before 2017-Austria finmin
May 12th, 2015
Europe is unlikely to impose a financial transaction tax before 2017, not in 2016 as earlier planned, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling told Reuters. The tax, first proposed in the 1970s to penalise currency speculators, was seized on ...
Austria Announces Substantial Income Tax Reforms
March 19th, 2015
Austria has announced proposals to provide personal income tax cuts worth EUR5bn (USD5.3bn) to lower income earners. The new tax package, which aims to boost economic growth by reducing the lowest income tax rate from 36.5 to 25 percent, ...
Ex-U.S. Envoy Khalilzad Money-Laundering Probe Leads to Austria
September 8th, 2014
A U.S. probe into alleged money laundering by Zalmay Khalilzad has led Austrian authorities to freeze a Vienna bank account linked to the former presidential envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, allegedly ...
Increase in online education in the EU in 2023
January 26th, 2024
In 2023, 30% of EU internet users aged 16 to 74 reported that they had done an online course or used online learning material in the three months prior to the survey. This is a 2 percentage point (pp) ...
Tourism: €572 billion gross value added in the EU. The countries with the highest shares of tourism
April 21st, 2023
In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic heavily hit the tourism sector, the gross value added directly generated by tourism amounted to an estimated €572 billion, or 5% of the total gross value added in the EU ...
Rents and house prices in the EU have continued their steady increase
October 12th, 2022
Rents and house prices in the EU have continued their steady increase in the second quarter of 2022, going up by 1.7% and 9.9%, respectively, compared with the second quarter of 2021. This information comes from data on rents ...
Commission starts legal action against 23 EU countries over copyright rules
August 4th, 2021
France, Spain, Italy and 20 other EU countries may be taken to court for their tardiness in enacting landmark EU copyright rules into national law, the European Commission said on Monday as it asked the group to explain the ...
Inflation, asset and consumer prices
June 25th, 2021
“The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar collapses.” There has been occasional speculation ...
