2 Drug Chains Disable Apple Pay, as a Rival Makes Plans
October 27th, 2014
A consortium of merchants plans to introduce a payment system next year that will supplant the use of credit and debit cards. Apple Pay, the Silicon Valley giant’s highly anticipated mobile wallet, has been available for only one week ...
Russia Brain Drain Saps Talent as Sanctions Hit Financing
October 27th, 2014
Artem Kulizhnikov, founder of a startup designed to help musicians annotate music, is packing his bags to leave Moscow in December. His destination: Dubai or Singapore, where he sees a better chance of securing funding for his second company. ...
Laiki and the European Central Bank in the New York Times
October 27th, 2014
The bankruptcy and accumulated debts of the Laiki Bank were a key element of the Cyprus financial crisis. A recent article (“To Restore Confidence in Economy, A Test of Europe’s Bank’s”, October 17) in The New York Times discusses ...
Dr. George Theocharides
October 23rd, 2014
George Theocharides is an Associate Professor of Finance at Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) in Nicosia, Cyprus. He is also the Programme Director of the MSc in Financial Services and Certificate in Financial Services. He joined the school ...
The TPP’s Missing Ingredient
October 23rd, 2014
Looking for ways to stimulate economic growth and create jobs, US President Barack Obama’s administration is seeking to press ahead with the mega-regional free-trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). But is the US going about it the ...
Citi architect criticises its retreat
October 22nd, 2014
John Reed, one of the architects of the modern-day Citigroup, has criticised his successors’ decision to shut down its consumer operations in 11 international markets, painting the move as shortsighted. “They’re looking at the business differently, they seem to ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
October 22nd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP): Amicorp (Cyprus ) Limited O.T.A Orphanides Trust Agency ...
Facebook sues over ‘fraudulent lawsuit’
October 21st, 2014
Facebook is suing US law firms alleging they knowingly represented a fraudster who claimed to be owed Facebook shares, in a warning to other law firms representing anyone attempting to get a slice of Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune. The Silicon ...
IBM to pay Globalfoundries to take chip unit
October 20th, 2014
IBM Corp (IBM.N) said it would hive off its loss-making semiconductor unit to contract-chipmaker Globalfoundries Inc to focus on cloud computing, mobile and big data analytics. IBM will pay Globalfoundries $1.5 billion in cash over the next three years ...
European stocks open higher
October 16th, 2014
European stocks are opening higher and Bund yields are moving up from record lows as investors bet the latest risk asset sell-off is overdone. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 equity gauge fell 2.2 per cent after Asia inherited news of a ...
