The Finance Ministry has submitted a bill seeking to lift a ban on the sale of loans to foreign banks and funds that parliament had passed in January 2015.

Cyprus expects to fully lift capital controls imposed two years ago before the end of Q1 2015, Central Bank Governor Chrystalla Georghadji said recently.

The details of the ECB's programme were unveiled recently by its President Mario Draghi, in Nicosia, after the Governing Council of the ECB concluded its meeting there.

With the arrival of Spring and the magic of the Cypriot landscape, the Cyprus Hotel Association is reminding locals of the attractive prices being offered for domestic tourism (November 2014 to March 2015).

Cyprus hopes to borrow on financial markets this year, the Finance Minister told Reuters recently, saying the island’s economy had more in common with bailout turnaround Ireland than Greece.

Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis recently held meetings in Berlin with representatives of major air carriers and tour operators of Germany, on the sidelines of the international tourist fair ITB Berlin 2015.

Unemployment in Cyprus dropped 5.6% in February 2015 according to the Statistical Service.

Hellenic Bank aims to build up its market share through organic growth, and not necessarily through buyouts of Greek or other smaller lenders, its chief executive told an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, prior to a recent media briefing.

The government generated a €74.5m primary surplus in January 2015 on a cash basis, which accounts for 0.4% of the economy and is almost half of the primary surplus generated a year before, the finance ministry said.

Promoting the island’s tourist product must be intensified and the tourism organisation (CTO) must be given more advertising money, CTO vice chairman Costas Koumis said recently.