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What drives the yield of government bonds?

June 12th, 2015 (0)
Due to the current weak economic circumstances that we are experiencing here in Cyprus (as well as other countries in Europe), we are constantly bombarded with various economic and financial terms from the media, most of them unknown to ...

The Role of Securitization in Dealing with the Banking Problems

March 20th, 2015 (0)
One of the main problems that our banking sector is facing is obviously the incredibly excessive amount of non-performing loans (NPLs) on our banks’ balance sheets that reached almost 50% (about €28 billion) of their total loan portfolio! A ...

Internal and External Risks to the Cyprus Economy

February 20th, 2015 (0)
Despite the tragic events of March 2013, Cyprus economy has showed resilience and the country was able to return back to stability and regain some of the lost confidence from international markets and investors rather quickly, which is necessary ...

Will Draghi’s QE programme work?

February 13th, 2015 (0)
The recent announcement by Mario Draghi for the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme in Europe was welcomed by an expected euphoria from the financial markets. Stock markets around the globe produced positive and significant returns, while yields on the sovereign ...

Can there be contagion with the Greek crisis?

February 13th, 2015 (1)
One question that has hovered around the global media recently, but has remained I believe unanswered, is what will be the likely outcome of a “Grexit” to the rest of the Eurozone countries as well as the rest of ...

How to deal with Europe’s ailing economy?

December 15th, 2014 (0)
There has been a lot of discussion lately in Europe and especially at the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters for the need (or not) of non-conventional monetary tools to revive Europe’s ailing economy, such as Quantitative Easing (QE). On ...

What type of liquidity does Cyprus need?

December 9th, 2014 (0)
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 ...

Skill set needed to make Cyprus a Strong Fund Jurisdiction

October 23rd, 2014 (0)
Despite the current financial crisis and recession that we are experiencing, one industry that stands out, is resilient, and is growing is the Financial Services. Despite the reputational damage that we suffered following the events of March 2013, many ...
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