News Estonia Finance: Estonia warns of risks in wake of money laundering scandal
Banks in Estonia have not yet plugged all the gaps in their money laundering controls, the Baltic state's regulator told Reuters, pledging to maintain a clampdown in the country at the center of one of Europe's biggest financial scandals. Estonia's efforts to tighten money laundering controls
News Estonia Finance: The Latest: Greece’s left-wing leader concedes election
8:25 p.m. Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos says the conservative ... to qualify for the rescue loans. TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Tens of thousands of Estonians joined in singing folk songs Sunday ...
News Estonia Finance: Curious new theory links Bitcoin’s inventor to Estonia
Is it a coincidence that an Estonian startup began testing blockchain in 2008—the same year that the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published his pioneering Bitcoin white paper? A new theory ...
News Estonia Finance: Adam Rang: E-Residency helping Estonia combat criminality
Is it contradictory for Estonia to both welcome e-residence as well as deter nonresident criminals? Adam Rang, an Estonian entrepreneur who formerly worked at Estonia's e-Residency program, argues that one is not possible without the other.
News Estonia Finance: Danske Bank to sell Estonian private loans unit to LHV in $458 million deal
Danske Bank, which is trying to recover from a major money laundering scandal, has agreed to sell its portfolio of Estonian private loans to LHV Pank in a deal worth 410 million euros (£324.1 million), Estonia's LHV said on Monday. Danske Bank has already said it will pull out of the Baltic states
News Estonia Finance: Finance ministry and LHV differ on e-residency money laundering risk
Measures aimed at combating money laundering in Estonia in the wake of the Danske and Swedbank cases will not impinge on the e-residency program, and vice versa, according to the Ministry of Finance. However, a spokesperson from high street bank LHV did point to such a tension.
News Estonia Finance: Estonian Consulting Firm Claims It’s Harder to Get a Crypto License Following Regulation
Estonian consulting firm Eesti Consulting OÜ has claimed that it is getting harder to get a cryptocurrency license in Estonia in a press release published on May 16. The new regulations adds a numbered formal obligation, extends the processing time from 30 to 90 day and establishes the requirement for
News Estonia Finance: LHV intends to acquire the unit of Danske Bank involved with Estonian private loans Tallinn Stock Exchange:LHV1T
In the short term, LHV Pank will finance the added volume of loans with deposits taken from Estonia and foreign markets. The deposits of Estonian clients have grown faster than planned. ...
News Estonia Finance: Opinion: Estonia's border and the price of voters' trust
The Estonian government set a price on the trust of its citizens, slapping a price tag on it of less than half a million euros. This is the savings they hope to achieve by not buying land along the border from its owners, but rather using it via easement, said Mirjam Nutov in a comment on Vikerraadio.
News Estonia Finance: Incap Corporation: The Director of Business Development at Incap Electronics Estonia, Greg Grace, joins the management board of the company
The Director of Business Development at Incap Electronics Estonia, Greg Grace, joins the management board of the company The Director of Business Development at Incap Electronics Estonia ...
News Estonia Finance: Racism, sexism, Nazi economics: Estonia's far right in power
An activist protests against a meeting of Jaak Madison of Estonia’s far-right EKRE party and Marine ... took the key posts of interior and finance minister respectively and celebrated by flashing a ...
News Estonia Finance: White Nationalists in Estonia Have Learned Some Big, Ugly Lessons From Trump
Party leader Martin Helme, now the finance minister, flashed it with both hands at his swearing in. The U.S. Embassy in Estonia, which is currently without an ambassador, would not confirm any ...
