How to build a future-ready organisation – Maltese style By Hot Malta staff Valletta – While the rest of Europe debates “digital transformation” in glass-walled conference centres, Maltese business leaders are hashing it out over ħobż biż-żejt in sunny courtyards. The question on everyone’s lips is the same: how do we build organisations that can…
**How Much Debt is Too Much? A Maltese Guide to Reading a Company’s Leverage Before You Invest, Work, or Buy Local** Valletta – When Jean Paul Borg told his Ħamrun barber that the family-run pastizzeria chain he works for had just “leveraged up” to open three new outlets in Gozo, the reply was swift: “Leverage?…
Farsons names new CEO and announces strong results ================================================= The island that gave the world Cisk has a fresh captain at the helm. Simonds Farsons Cisk plc yesterday unveiled Norman Aquilina as its new Chief Executive Officer while posting record-breaking figures for the year ended 31 January 2024 – a double shot of news that…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour was still yawning itself awake on Tuesday when the news broke: Goldman Sachs Asset Management is buying a “significant” stake in Melita Limited, the island’s home-grown telecoms group that has wired (and unwired) Maltese homes since 1992. By the time the kiosks outside Castille had swapped the morning’s ħobż biż-żejt for pastizzi,…
Microsoft’s decision to pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates in October 2025 has landed like a late-summer sirocco on the Maltese islands: hot, dusty, and impossible to ignore. From the family-run accounting office in Birkirkara to the gaming cafés of Paceville, an estimated 78 % of Malta’s 550 000 active PCs still run…
**Global Trade is Winning Donald Trump’s War on It – And Malta’s Feeling the Ripple** Valletta’s Grand Harbour, usually buzzing with cargo chatter and the clatter of containers, has become an unlikely barometer for Donald Trump’s global trade wars. While the former US President promised to “make America great again” by slapping tariffs on Chinese…
From Valletta’s limestone balconies to Manila’s neon skyline, the global appetite for online gaming is booming—and Filipinos are spinning the reels with a fervour that would make even the most seasoned Maltese punter blink. As Malta cements its status as the EU’s iGaming capital, curiosity naturally turns eastward: what are the hottest online casinos in…
Transfer pricing (TP) in Malta: what businesses need to know By Hot Malta Business Desk Walk into any café on Strait Street at 9 a.m. and you’ll hear three languages at once: Maltese, English and Excel. Between sips of ħelwa tat-Tork, CFOs of gaming start-ups whisper about “arm’s length” and “benchmarking” the way fishermen once…
