Technology
Economy

FinTech Company Moneta International Finds a Home in Lithuania

FinTech company Moneta International, which provides payment services predominantly for the e-commerce sector through an online platform, has set up its global headquarters in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and is now gearing up for substantial expansion in the near future. Total investment is expected to exceed €1 million, including the Moneta platform and other products under development. […]

At the Kaunas Airport
Economy

Lithuanian airlines to provide all passenger data to police from January

Airlines will have to register information about all individuals traveling to and from Lithuania by air transport starting January and provide it to the law-enforcement. […]

Vilnius Tech Park
Economy

Boosting local startups globally at Vilnius Tech Park

Startup Lithuania, a team of Enterprise Lithuania, a government agency to assist startups in Lithuania, relocates to the biggest startup hub in the Baltics and Nordics, soon to be launched in Vilnius. The decision to move part of the government agency closer to startups themselves clearly represents Lithuania’s aim to emerge as the leading startup-friendly ecosystem in the Baltic region. […]

Rasa Budbergytė
Economy

Finmin calls on new Govt not to make draft 2017 budget worse

After the European Commission has asked for clarification from Lithuania over its draft 2017 budget, Finance Minister Rasa Budbergytė says that the EU’s executive body wants additional information regarding the government’s request for a higher deficit due to the so-called social model. The Finance Ministry says, meanwhile, that the Commission does not request additional explanations and does not comment on the draft budget sent to it on October 17, but only reminds the country that its new government, once formed, will have to submit an updated daft budget. […]

New tourism brand of Lithuania
Economy

Lithuania unveils new tourism brand

Lithuania will until 2020 use a new tourism brand to market itself to foreign tourists. […]

Giedrius Korsakas
Economy

Corporate communications specialist Karsokas joins Go Vilnius

Corporate communications specialist Giedrius Karsokas has joined Go Vilnius – the Lithuanian capital’s official international business and tourism development agency – as head of the new agency’s business department. […]

Beverage at a shopping centre in Lithuania
Economy

President signs into law alcohol control amendments

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday signed into law amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control that require retailers to ask alcohol buyers to show identification documents only if there is doubt that they are of the legal drinking age. […]