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EBRD joins SWIFT’s Know Your Customer Registry
May 9th, 2017
In a move to facilitate global and local financial flows and ensure their transparency, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has signed up to use SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry and is encouraging partner banks in countries ...
EBRD supports international trade in Greece through National Bank of Greece
March 2nd, 2016
Facility will help National Bank of Greece scale up trade finance The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the expansion of international trade with a facility to National Bank of Greece under the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP). The facility ...
Armenia passes a new package of laws regulating the local financial markets
October 31st, 2016
The Armenian parliament has passed a package of laws regulating the local financial markets and amendments to the law on the securities market, following close cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The EBRD welcomed the ...
German Deutsche Bank faced threat of bankruptcy
July 11th, 2016
Three years ago, there were reports about bankruptcy of Deutsche Bank, which is managing SOFAZ assets. This is caused by too much unsecured derivatives in the balance of the bank. Now, International Bank of Azerbaijan has started to speak ...
US Presses Europe to Take Steps to Reduce Greece’s Debt: Investors need confidence
November 5th, 2015
Investors need confidence Greece’s debt is sustainable Servicing obligations are only part of the equation, U.S. says The U.S. is pressing euro-area countries to agree to an overhaul of Greece’s debt to give private-sector investors confidence that the nation’s ...
Investment Plan for Europe goes global: China announces its contribution to #investEU
September 29th, 2015
At the High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue in Beijing today, China announced its intention to contribute to the Investment Plan, as well as closer cooperation with the EU on investment issues in general. Today during the High Level ...
Tax: MEPs advocate country-by-country reporting to help developing countries
July 9th, 2015
The EU and its member states should make multinationals report their financial performance, tax details, assets and employee numbers country by country, so as to help fight tax evasion and illicit money flows in developing countries, says Parliament in ...
Hungary To Lower Bank Tax
May 11th, 2015
The Hungarian Government is to submit a legislative amendment to Parliament for its approval that would lower the bank tax. The amendment was drafted based on discussions between Hungary and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in ...
What type of liquidity does Cyprus need?
December 9th, 2014
There has been a lot of discussion recently, especially after the successful outcome from the stress tests of our main banks, that it’s time for the banks to start offering liquidity to the market to fund growth in our ...
Bank of Cyprus collects €1bn through shares selling
July 29th, 2014
A 1 billion euro ($1.34 billion) capital increase was held by Bank of Cyprus by selling shares, including investors such as the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and US investor Wilbur Ross, the bank cited on Monday. ...
