**Fortina’s Contract U-Turn: Hotel Says It Would Pay Less Under Today’s Rules, Sparks Fresh Debate Over Sliema’s Changing Skyline** Sliema’s seafront has always been a stage where past and future wrestle for space: limestone town-houses stare up at glass towers, pensioners feed pigeons beneath cranes, and the scent of pastizzi mingles with chlorine from infinity…
Alliance Real Estate opens Gżira hub, betting on the town’s next chapter By Hot Malta Staff | Wednesday, 14 June 2023 The crane-dotted skyline of Gżira welcomed a different kind of addition this morning: a sleek, glass-fronted branch of Alliance Real Estate, the 11th office for the Maltese-owned agency since it set up shop in…
# Renault and Dacia Open Week: When Maltese Streets Become Showrooms Under the Mediterranean Sun The unmistakable scent of new car leather mixed with ħobż biż-żejt from the nearby kiosk as families flocked to the Renault and Dacia Open Week last weekend, transforming Malta’s typically car-clogged streets into an impromptu celebration of automotive culture. From…
Xjenza Malta and Malta Enterprise ink landmark deal to turn island’s brainpower into business Valletta – In a sun-lit ceremony that felt part science-fair, part village festa, the national research fund Xjenza Malta and economic development agency Malta Enterprise signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at converting Malta’s test-tube ideas into euro-earning products. The pact,…
**Bridging Stone and Policy: How Malta’s Top Build Seminar is Rewriting the Rules of the Islands’ Skyline** Valletta’s 17th-century bastions have survived sieges, sunstroke, and selfie sticks, but they’ve never faced a challenger quite like Malta’s 2024 construction boom. On Friday, inside the vaulted halls of the Mediterranean Conference Centre—once a hospital for the Knights…
Survey vessel deployed for second Malta – Italy undersea cable: A new lifeline beneath the waves The azure channel between Malta and Sicily is more than a picturesque backdrop for sunset selfies; it is Malta’s umbilical cord to Europe. This week, the 85-metre survey vessel Ievoli Ivory dropped anchor off Marsaxlokk, her hull bristling with…
# Controlling mergers and acquisitions to foster growth, protect competition **Valletta** – When a family-run Sliema bakery that has supplied ftira to the same street since 1957 is suddenly swallowed by a pan-European frozen-food giant, the ripples are felt far beyond the shop-front. Grandmothers whisper about the change in texture of their morning bread; teenagers…
**Financial services in the age of AI: How Malta’s banks are quietly revolutionising the way we save, spend and scam-proof our euros** By 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in St Julian’s, the queue at the BOV branch used to snake past the pastizzi kiosk. Today, the kiosk still does brisk trade, but the bank doors…
A dream deal for CrediaBank By our Business Desk Valletta’s morning espresso had barely cooled on Wednesday when word swept through Republic Street that CrediaBank – the violet-branched lender born in a converted Sliema townhouse only eight years ago – is being snapped up by Scandinavian giant NordKredit for €1.3 billion. In Malta, where the…
**Trump’s $100k Visa Price Tag: Maltese Tech Talent Forced to Rethink the American Dream** Valletta – For two decades the ritual has been the same: finish top of your class at MCAST or the University of Malta, land a summer internship at a Santa Monica gaming studio or a Manhattan fintech, file the paperwork for…
European airports hit by cyber-related disruption, causing delays – Maltese travellers stranded as IT chaos ripples across the continent ———————————————————————————————————————————— Valletta – When 23-year-old Gżira gamer-turned-digital-nomad Luke Pace rocked up at Malta International Airport (MIA) at 04:00 on Tuesday, he expected the usual 30-minute hop to Rome, a quick espresso, and a morning meeting in…
# MSE Wraps Week with €2.9m Turnover as Maltese Families Check Their ‘Sant’Anna’ Nest-Eggs **Valletta, Friday 19 September 2025 – 17:45** – The bronze bells of the Jesuit church had barely finished tolling when the last trade of the week flickered across the Malta Stock Exchange screen: 1,000 Bank of Valletta shares at €2.63, nudging…
