It was one of the biggest media deals ever seen in emerging Europe, but it may now become the subject of a US Treasury investigation. Last October, Central European...
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Bulgaria’s finance ministry has announced plans to launch the first regulatory technology (regtech) sandbox in the Balkans. Vladislav Goranov, the country’s...
In order to stimulate small business financing in the Baltic States, non-bank business lender Noviti Finance and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have signed a...
Urban tech is a relatively new sector of industry that seeks to improve living conditions by making cities more connected, livable, and efficient. For start-ups in...
The European Commission has found that rail freight operator CFR Marfa received at least 570 million euros of incompatible state aid from Romania through a debt write...
By any standards of measurement, Polish bus manufacturer Solaris had an outstanding 2019. The firm, based in Bolechowo-Osiedle, near Poznań, secured orders worth...
Since its conception in 2015, Georgian sneaker brand Crosty has been making waves in the fashion industry. Created by two brothers, George and Shota Mikaia, Crosty’s...
In 2011 Daniel Kunin became the only American in an executive position at the predominantly Kazakh Kusto Group. Now managing director, he spoke to Emerging...
Venture capital fund OTB Ventures has launched an early growth technology fund worth 100 million US dollars with the intention of investing in early stage, post-product...
While Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky courts more foreign investment, he faces scrutiny over how a corrupt official is disrupting the country’s largest agro...
One of the more unlikely business success stories of the past two decades in emerging Europe has been that of Romanian carmaker Dacia, which has gone from being the...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of small towns and cities across Europe were transformed by industrialisation. While most developed ad hoc, with...