As of July 2025, Cyprus has officially opened applications for the EU Blue Card, aligning with EU Directive 2021/1883 to attract highly skilled non-EU professionals. The scheme targets key sectors such as ICT, pharmaceuticals, and shipping, offering competitive benefits including EU mobility, family reunification, equal employment rights, and potential pathways to long-term residency and citizenship.

With a minimum salary threshold of €43,632, the initiative strengthens Cyprus’ position as a strategic hub for international talent, while also offering tax incentives such as a 50% income tax exemption for eligible individuals. The Blue Card enhances both short-term and long-term mobility within the EU, making it a powerful tool for global professionals seeking flexibility and career growth.

The role of the director would be to promote and grow the brand to businesses (not to service providers). This will require the director to be creative, find cost effective avenues to promote the brand to businesses so that in the end everyone in Cyprus who needs legal, accounting or immigration assistance would do it via Finhub. Challenging? Yes. Rewarding? Double Yes as partnership / equity stake will be given to the right candidate.

Grant Thornton’s Women in Business 2026 report shows that gender equality initiatives are becoming a key factor in attracting talent. 91.9% of mid-market leaders say they consider a company’s gender equality policies when applying for roles, and many candidates now ask about the gender balance of senior leadership teams during recruitment.

The findings also reveal that mid-market firms are increasingly attracting experienced female talent from larger organisations, demonstrating the competitive advantage of inclusive leadership cultures.

However, progress remains fragile. With the global share of women in senior management slightly declining to 32.9%, and some organisations relaxing diversity initiatives, the report stresses that maintaining visible commitments to gender equality is essential for attracting talent, strengthening leadership pipelines and supporting sustainable business growth.

Cyprus has taken a bold step forward in cementing its position as a credible fund jurisdiction with the adoption of the new Investment Fund Administrators (IFA) Law. Passed quietly in July 2024, this new framework may not have made international headlines, but it closes a longstanding gap in the country’s financial services ecosystem and signals a more mature, forward-looking approach to fund regulation.

In this article, we unpack what the law does, why it matters, and how it completes a puzzle that’s been slowly coming together over the past decade.

On 9 September 2025, the EU General Court delivered its first major judgment on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) in Case T-553/23 (Latombe v Commission), rejecting an action seeking the annulment of the European Commission’s 2022 adequacy decision. The ruling marks a significant milestone for transatlantic data transfers, distinguishing the DPF from its predecessors, Safe Harbor (invalidated in 2015) and Privacy Shield (invalidated in 2020).

The applicant challenged the adequacy decision on several grounds, including concerns over U.S. surveillance practices, large-scale data collection, access to an independent tribunal, and safeguards against automated decision-making. The Court dismissed these claims, finding that U.S. law provides sufficient limitations and safeguards, including targeted intelligence collection under FISA, and that the newly established Data Protection Review Court satisfies the requirements of independence and effective judicial redress under Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 45 GDPR.

Importantly, the Court reaffirmed that an adequacy framework does not need to mirror GDPR identically but must ensure an “essentially equivalent” level of protection. The decision provides increased legal certainty for businesses relying on the DPF for EU–US data transfers and signals judicial recognition of U.S. reforms aimed at strengthening oversight and redress mechanisms.

While a potential appeal remains possible, the judgment offers cautious optimism that the DPF may provide greater stability for cross-border data flows within the EU–US economic relationship.