Search Results for: Switzerland
The housing cost in Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Germany and other EU members; an excessive burden
March 9th, 2017
Housing costs – an excessive burden for 11 % of Europeans Costs relating to housing are the main items of expenditure for many European households. In the European context, these expenses include rental or mortgage interest payments but also ...
A beginner’s guide to Bitcoin; What it is, How it works, Where you can buy it?
March 6th, 2017
The Bitcoin is getting more and more publicity the last years as the controversial computer currency is used by many people and business in nowadays. As the bitcoin is getting “famous”, governments are increasingly looking about the its taxation ...
Venezuela running out of cash
March 4th, 2017
The Central Bank of Venezuela says the country is down to just $10.5 billion in foreign reserves. At the same time, Caracas has to meet debt obligations of $7.2 billion this year. The country had nearly $30 billion in ...
Why All Exchange Rates Are Bad
March 2nd, 2017
The economics of exchange rates can be tough sledding. Every now and then, I post on the bulletin board beside my office a quotation from Kenneth Kasa back in 1995: “If you asked a random sample of economists to ...
Israel Tax Authority probing 30,000 more Israelis’ US accounts
February 28th, 2017
Information from the IRS will be cross-checked with reports by Israelis about their overseas assets. The Israel Tax Authority today announced that in recent days, it had obtained additional information about 30,000 accounts at US financial concerns belonging to ...
Visa to Launch First Everywhere Initiative in Europe
February 28th, 2017
Today, Visa announced that the Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the “next big thing” in payments, will expand into Europe. Entrants in Visa’s first-ever European Everywhere Initiative will have the opportunity to compete ...
Unusual: The goverment of this country complains that it is collecting too much tax
February 23rd, 2017
Sweden’s government has an unusual complaint — it is collecting too much tax. Negative rates of interest have made a number of the world’s highest taxes lots much less painful as companies and people race at hand money to ...
Unauthorised financial services companies around the world are reported
February 23rd, 2017
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – ...
Swiss canton to launch its own cryptocurrency
February 21st, 2017
Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, is planning to issue its own local digital currency for everyday use. Its circulation may be confined to Ticino territory. The future cryptocurrency called ticinocoin (TIC) is a brainchild of computer scientists Claudio ...
Accenture Announces Intent to Acquire Digital Agency SinnerSchrader AG to Drive Expansion of Accenture Interactive in Germany
February 20th, 2017
Accenture agrees to purchase 62% majority of shares in SinnerSchrader AG from the co-founder/CEO, CFO and other shareholders Public tender offer to remaining shareholders at EUR 9.00 per share, representing an attractive premium of 58% over the 12-month volume-weighted ...