It also announced that it will end its balance sheet runoff in September this year.

Some buy gold as a luxury good, in the form of jewellery, and some use it for investment, or both.

Last year in September the Cypriot cabinet has approved a new filming scheme, which was created with the aim to attract overseas filming companies to shoot their films in Cyprus.

During the first quarter of 2018, the economy of Cyprus rose by 0,8%, compared with Q1 of the previous year. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development readjusted its forecast for the economic growth of Cyprus in 2018 from 2,5% to 3,2%, while the European Commission estimates 3,6%.

Despite the global and regional economic challenges Lebanon has maintained its financial stability over the past quarter century. The financial sector, especially the banking sector has grown rapidly over the past years.

Lebanon has a fast-growing Information Technology sector. It's market size was USD 436.2 million in 2016 and it is expected to further grow at a compounded annual interest rate of 9.7% and reach USD 543.5 million by 2019.

When the risk appetite of investors is tapered due to changing market sentiment, they choose ‘flight to quality' investments such as safe-haven-assets, such as Gold, to protect their investment portfolio against further losses.

Wealthy individuals in Islam have often been shying away from investing in gold and other precious metals in order to safeguard their investment portfolio against risks (and not for the purpose of speculation), ...

More and more wealthy individuals and funds prefer to invest in precious metals, mainly gold, relying on its physical and sustainable value in times where monetary currencies are exposed...

Iran's rating in the country risk classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits (CRE), has upgraded from 6 to 5 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

According to the recent report of the Central Bank of Iran, Iran's economy grew 12.5% during April 2016 - March 2017 in comparison to the previous year, under an OPEC deal with the aim of eroding global inventories and lifting crude prices.

The Central Bank of Iran published a "service report" which outlined measures undertaken by CBI during the first term of President Hassan Rouhani in office and also after implementation of the JCPOA.

In relation to the supply chain, purchase of required components was difficult for manufacturers. Consequently, they had to pay higher amounts with longer production process time which eventually resulted in higher production costs.

Following Iran's nuclear deal, many foreign insurance companies specially from Italy, Germany and from the UK announced their willingness to invest in Iran's insurance industry.

The Cypriot cabinet has approved the so-called Cyprus Startup Visa scheme on the 15th of February 2017 with the aim to attract foreign investments from non-EU countries (third countries) to Cyprus in the fields of innovation and research and development (R&D).

Are we doing something wrong in this world when it comes to fighting tax evasion? Obviously, yes!

During the course of 2018, the Ministry of Industry (MOI) issued a total of 476 industrial permits during the first half year only.

The FinTech also called, Financial Technology or Financial Services Technology sector became a very dominant sector all over the world.

Ukraine has been struggling tremendously for two decades with corruption, outlaws, raiders, unjustified enrichment, and political instability. However, effective reforms of the current government are...

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