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Beware of unauthorized companies offering investment and financial services
June 12th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Italy (National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange – Consob), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Luxembourg (Commission ...
Spain to introduce the first “Real” Digital Tax in the EU
June 1st, 2018
The Treasury will impose a 5% tax on foreign and Spanish companies’ digital services. This new tax will be on the intermediary services and the publicity and sale of digital data up to 5% of the turnover of all ...
One in ten Europeans in arrears with payments
May 31st, 2018
In 2016, 10.4% of the population in the European Union (EU) were in arrears with their mortgage, rent or other items, such as utility bills or hire purchase payments, which are typically paid as monthly installments. In other words, ...
Shares of luggage giant Samsonite suspended over governance and accounting claims
May 25th, 2018
Luggage giant accused of ‘questionable accounting practices’ and ‘poor corporate governance’ as shares are suspended in Hong Kong. Shares in Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International plummeted by more than 11 per cent in early trading in Hong Kong ...
Strategic partnership between Worldline and SIX consolidating European payments
May 24th, 2018
Worldline’s $2.75 billion deal to buy the payments unit of Swiss exchange operator SIX Group, announced on Tuesday, could herald more consolidation in the industry, SIX’s chairman told Reuters. France’s Worldline beat competition from U.S. bidders to land the ...
How much does your country invest?
May 14th, 2018
Last year, total investment (both from the public and the private sectors) by European Union (EU) Member States amounted to almost €3 100 billion. Construction accounted for about half of these investments, with machinery, equipment & weapons systems (31%) ...
Workers in OECD countries pay one quarter of wages in taxes
May 4th, 2018
Workers in OECD countries paid just over a quarter of their gross wages in tax on average in 2017, with just over half of countries seeing small increases in the personal average tax rate, according to a new OECD ...
Beware of companies offering investments without the required authorisations
May 2nd, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Italy (Consob), Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – CSSF), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC) ...
How much do households save and invest?
April 30th, 2018
For the first time, Eurostat is publishing annual key indicators relating to households’ accounts for most of the EU Member States. This new publication complements the existing set of annual key indicators, which combine households and non-profit institutions serving ...
Hourly labour costs ranged from €4.9 to €42.5 across the EU Member States in 2017
April 12th, 2018
In 2017, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €26.8 in the European Union (EU) and €30.3 in the euro area. However, this average masks significant gaps between EU ...
