The Estonian bank LHV is opening a branch in London. The UK Financial Conduct Authority has granted the bank approval and the financial institution will now register an...
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Emerging Europe’s biggest airline Wizz Air announced on January 31 that it had posted record third-quarter profits in the three months to December 31. The airline...
In just a few months since its launch, COBCOE Connects has linked around a dozen businesses across Europe.
Polish Bank Pekao, which returned to majority Polish ownership in 2016 and currently operates only in its home country, has announced its intentions to expand...
The Warsaw Stock Exchange’s main index, the WIG, peaked at 67,933.05 points on January 23, hitting an all-time high. The previous historic high was achieved before the...
Banca Transilvania, Romania’s second-largest bank, has finalised the purchase of a 39 per cent stake in Moldova’s third-largest lender Victoriabank. It is the first time...
Professional services provider Deloitte has established a Cyber Intelligence Centre (CIC) in Budapest for managing cybersecurity in Central Europe, to counter threats...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, is providing a financing package of over 30 million euro to IMMER Group, a...
P&O Maritime, owned by the world’s largest port operator DP World Group, has officially entered the Ukrainian market, acquiring a controlling stake in the...
HSBC – the world’s seventh largest bank by total assets and the largest in Europe – announced on January 4 that it is to launch a business desk in...
Local innovation has progressed in a spectacular way over the past decade throughout Emerging Europe, although there are still countries – in particular Albania...
Slowly but steadily, Belarus continues to liberalise its regulations to attract more foreign investment. The country’s president, Aleksander Lukashenko, recently signed...