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The Greek Financial Crime Unit (SDOE), along with several tax inspectors, have been investigating the case of the Lagarde List, a list of names of Greek people with Swiss bank accounts. After the investigation, SDOE is expected to announce...

Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis talked to Bloomberg TV’s Guy Johnson on Friday and stated that Greece is likely to resort to emergency loans in 2015 and 2016 in order to exit from the terms of its bailout. "The IMF doesn’t want to lend alone;...

National Bank of Greece (NBG) has hired other banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp to work as advisers on the sale of 40% of Turkish Finansbank, reported Bloomberg. NBG is planning on selling its shares...

Greek Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou has sent an official request for additional information from Christine Lagarde regarding the nature of the death threats she claimed to have received in her recent interview with the Financial Times. In a wide-ranging interview, the International Monetary...

During an interview with the Financial Times, IMF chief Christine Lagarde talked about all major financial and political issues in China, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. However, when asked about Greece, she appeared hasty to move to other subjects. Lagarde only commented on taxation...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue with Greece's program even after the completion of its European partners' participation in it, IMF deputy spokesman William Murray said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters, the Fund’s spokesman said that no meeting to...

“Our people are suffering,” said the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias to the Prime Minister of Portugal Pedro Passos Coelho. “Greek people cannot take any more,” stressed the Greek President during the meeting with Coelho at the Presidential Mansion in...

A meeting on the settlement of the Greek debt will take place in Washington on November 14 and 15, according to government sources. Troika representatives, the Greek side and possibly other interested parties will participate in the meeting, which is...

Government officials are traveling to Paris today, to hold talks with Greece's international creditors that will last until Thursday. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis...

Greek government officials are ready to begin the next round of negotiations with the Troika of international lenders in Paris tomorrow. The Greek delegation, led by Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis, has three main points in its negotiation strategy. The key...