Newsletter: Vienna International News
Vienna Receives Slovakian President: Deepening Relations and Discussion on Sanctions
Slovakian President Peter Pellegrini visited Austria as part of his official inaugural visit. It was his fourth bilateral trip to one of Slovakia's neighboring countries, having previously visited the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary.
Vienna to Become a Center for Financial Technology: AFT 2024 International Conference
Vienna will once again become the international hub for innovative financial technologies in September 2024. From September 23 to 25, 2024, the sixth edition of the Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT) conference will take place at the Austrian National Bank (OeNB).
Foreign Currency Loans in Austria Fall to New Low in Q2 2024
The market for foreign currency loans in Austria continues to decline sharply. The Financial Market Authority (FMA) published a new survey for the second quarter of 2024, which shows a further significant decline in the outstanding volume of such loans.
Whistleblower System to Help Clarify the Signa Bankruptcy
The investigation into the insolvency of the Signa real estate empire is progressing. A new whistleblower system is now intended to help bring transparency to complex corporate structures through information from employees and creditors and to reveal previously undiscovered information.
