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KYC is an acronym for "Know your Customer", a term used for customer identification process.

As the second phase of the pandemic started to affect our country and the implementation of additional measures by the Cypriot Government to end it...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published two significant sets of Guidelines on internal policies, procedures, and controls for the implementation of Union and national restrictive measures.

On 29 May 2025, the House of Representatives passed the Investment Funds Administrators Law, L.101(I)/2025, marking a pivotal advancement in Cyprus's financial regulatory regime.

Under Cyprus Law, a pledgee, in the event of default of the pledgor, may:...

A bill under the name "Lawregulating the activities of portfolio investor companies of 2015", has been drafted by the Central Bank of Cyprus and is set for approval by the Parliament by the end of September 2015.

On 11 February 2016 Cyprus enacted the first of three proposed new laws to align its legislative framework with the EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive 2014/59/EU...

A new bill proposing the introduction of recovery measures in respect of Social Insurance obligations that has been engineered by the Ministry of Labour, has attracted particular interest as to the financial and ...

The concept of the "Societas Europea", a European corporate form transcending national boundaries and common to all member states, was first proposed in the late 1960s. More than 30 years later, on 8 October 2001 the Council of the European Communities adopted Council Regulation No 2157/2001 on the statute for a European company and the supplementary Council Directive 2001/86/EC with regard to employee involvement.

In a unanimous judgment given on the 12th of June 2025, the Supreme Court of Cyprus reaffirmed that a mortgage creates an autonomous primary obligation, independent of the lender's ability to prove a debt against the mortgagor personally.

On 1 December 2021 the Cyprus Minister of Finance issued an Announcement saying that the late submission of certain direct tax returns will not carry any administrative penalties if these direct tax returns are submitted by the end of Monday 6 December 2021.

In the last few years, the European Union ("EU") has been creating a package of measures to enable and support the potential of digital finance. More recently, as part of the European Digital...

In June 2019, the Council of Ministers of Cyprus, approved the National Strategy for Decentralized Technologies-Blockchain.

AGP Law can offer a range of legal services to shipping companies and ship management companies, including: Formation and Registration of Shipping Companies: We can assist with the formation...

On 9 September 2014 a new law amending the Liberalisation of the Interest Rate and Related Matters Law of 1999 ("the LOIRL") was published in the official gazette and took effect.

At the end of January 2015 a number of detailed amendments were made to Cyprus laws regulating the financial and investment sector to align them with EU legislation.

The EU Regulation No. 655/2014 establishes a European Account Preservation procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters...

The need to protect creditors in cross-border private disputes has led the EU to establish specialised procedures for the effective recovery of debts, in particular...