**Valletta Court Slaps Record €530,000 Fine on Former Gaming Executive in Dazzling Fraud Case** A 38-year-old Sliema woman has been ordered to cough up more than half a million euros to her former employer after a Valletta court found she had siphoned company funds into personal crypto wallets and luxury property investments in what magistrate…
Valletta shop-owner Maria Spiteri still remembers the day her 72-year-old father agreed to put the family’s 50-year-old ironmongery online. “He watched me scan a €3 packet of screws into the new web-shop and whispered, ‘Nistgħu naraw jekk jixtru minn Għawdex ukoll?’” Two months later, 18 % of the store’s sales were coming from Gozo, and…
# Inside the compliance-first AI engine publishing 500 slot comparisons a day **How a Sliema start-up quietly became the iGaming world’s fastest reviewer—while staying on the right side of Malta’s watchdog** By 9 a.m. the cappuccinos are already cooling on the balconies of Tower Road, but inside a converted sea-front townhouse a cluster of GPUs…
# Trump’s €14 Billion NYT Grudge Reaches Malta’s Shores: What a U.S. Lawsuit Means to a Island Nation That Lives on Reputation Valletta’s early-morning pastizzerias were still wrapping ricotta pastries when the news pinged across Maltese phones: Donald Trump is suing *The New York Times* for a staggering 15 billion U.S. dollars—about €14 billion, roughly…
**Half-priced luxury? How Malta’s flash-sale culture is rewriting the island’s love affair with the high-end** Sliema’s once-quiet Bisazza Street has become a nightly catwalk of brown paper bags. Not the greasy sort from pastizzi, but the matte-laminated kind that used to be reserved for Paris or Milan. Walk past the new pop-up “premium outlet” that…
AI and Malta’s future – how the islands can surf the silicon wave without wiping out By [Hot Malta Staff] Smart traffic lights that speak Maltese, ferry timetables that rewrite themselves when the sirocco whips up the waves, a digital twin of Valletta that lets planners test pedestrian schemes before a single limestone block is…
Valletta’s iGaming corridors have a new name on everyone’s lips: FIRST.com. The UK-licensed sportsbook, which soft-launched in February and went full-throttle for the Champions League final, is already being sized up by St Julian’s analysts as the fastest British brand to hit seven-figure active users since the 2020 lockdown boom. But what has Malta buzzing…
It’s 7 a.m. on a humid July morning and the line outside the BNF branch in Paola is already curling round the corner. Pensioners clutching numbered tickets, Deliveroo riders check phones between shifts, and a young couple push a stroller while debating whether the “€5,000 quick loan” flyer they were handed at the ferry terminal…
Maltese most likely to believe their country would benefit from EU enlargement – and they’re not shy about saying it Walk past any kazin in Birkirkara at sunset and you’ll hear the same spirited debate that’s been echoing across the islands since 2004: “Kemm se jkun ahjar Malta b’aktar pajjiżi fil-UE?” According to the latest…
Alex Agius Saliba Asks EU to Probe Austrian Gaming Judgments: A Red-and-White Warning Flag for Malta’s Digital Crown Jewel Malta woke up this week to the sound of its most prominent MEP banging on the doors of Brussels. Alex Agius Saliba, Labour’s firebrand in the European Parliament, has formally requested an EU-wide investigation into recent…
