- April 17, 2026
“I consider the academic environment to be one of the key factors in shaping a strong personality, because a person with a higher education – provided they actually studied and [..]
By Valters Smiltāns, Signet Bank investment analyst. In 2025, the Lithuanian parliament reformed the country’s second-pillar pension system, which came into effect in 2026. The reform significantly increases the flexibility [..]
Companies are losing strong candidates not only due to talent shortages, but increasingly because their hiring processes fail to meet market expectations. This was the key conclusion from an expert [..]
By Viesturs Deksnis. The warning from the International Energy Agency has been unusually stark. In an interview with El País, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol described the conflict involving Iran [..]
“My goal is to be a tree under whose shade young people can grow,” says Mykolas Kulikauskas, a graduate of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), who now works at the Kaunas [..]
By Viesturs Deksnis, Editor-in-Chief of Balticnews.com. Independent decision-making is becoming a critical challenge for fast-growing companies, says Alena Padalnitskaya, Head of the League of Analysts at Zubr Capital. Working closely [..]
By Vadzim Smatrayeu, VP Fintech Services at IBA Group. For decades, card acquiring was inseparably linked to specialized hardware. Accepting card payments meant purchasing certified POS terminals and managing logistics, [..]
Dainis Gašpuitis, Economist at SEB Banka Latvia, has shared brief reflections on LinkedIn regarding the current situation in the Middle East and its potential implications for the global economy, financial [..]
Latvia’s household waste management system is already facing serious challenges. Although sorting infrastructure has improved in recent years and part of the society is actively sorting waste, 118 thousand tonnes [..]
As the global labor market undergoes rapid transformation, educators and policymakers are increasingly questioning whether traditional approaches to education are sufficient to prepare young people for the future. In Latvia, [..]
By Edmunds Antufjevs, Kristiāna Janvare, Signet Bank Investment Banking Management. Bond issuance activity in the Baltic market surged in 2025, reaching record levels in both issuance volume and number of [..]
SOFTSWISS, an international tech brand with its partner’s development centres in Warsaw and Poznań, has strengthened its long-term technology strategy by appointing Denis Romanovskiy as its first Chief Artificial Intelligence [..]
By Mārtiņš Rozenbaums, Investment Banking Project Manager, Signet Bank. The real estate bond market has experienced rapid fluctuations over the past three years, from a decline in activity and uncertainty [..]
By Kārlis Mārtiņš Gulbis, Investment Analyst at Signet Bank. 2025 turned out to be a paradoxical pseudo “roller coaster” ride that was more frightening than shocking. We were prepared for [..]
Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University The White House has released its national security strategy, a document put out by every US presidential administration in order to spell out its foreign policy [..]
Foreign Ministry Secretary General Jonatan Vseviov said on “Ukraina stuudio” that the message delivered by every past U.S. president — that Europe must start taking responsibility for its own affairs [..]
The first cohort of The League of Analysts, an international educational program by investment company Zubr Capital, has completed its course in Poland. The final defense of graduation projects took [..]
By Vera Rayevskaya, Customer Success Director, IBA Lithuania. Artificial intelligence has evolved from an experimental innovation to a strategic necessity. Across industries, enterprises are integrating AI into operations, customer engagement, [..]
By Viesturs Deksnis. As the European Commission moves forward with the implementation of the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation, new methodologies for the certification of carbon farming removals [..]
By Viesturs Deksnis. As Europe races to fulfill its climate ambitions and reshape the transport sector, powerful new trends are emerging at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and regulation. Recently, [..]
By Siarhei Fedarovich, Program/Project Manager at IBA Group, PMI-ACP and Julia Kanaikina, Head of Delivery, Cybersecurity services at IBA Group, PMP certified. As cyber threats grow in complexity, AI is [..]
By Jonas Deveikis, LRT.lt. In an interview with LRT.lt, the chief architect of Vilnius, Laura Kairienė, discusses what should be done with residential districts and why the urbanisation of the [..]
By journalist Ain Alvela, an editor at TööstusEST. The European Union plans a major overhaul of the current corporate sustainability reporting system (ESG – Environmental, Social, Governance), expanding the range [..]
Taking into account the growing risks of fraud, Latvia’s existing regulation should be improved to allow mobile operators to play a more active role in protecting residents against fraudulent text [..]
By journalist Ain Alvela. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has recently become an integral part of our daily lives. Initially used mainly for entertainment, AI is now increasingly making its way [..]
By Viesturs Deksnis. For the first time, Riga hosted the international Drone Summit 2025, a landmark event uniting global leaders in unmanned aerial systems to explore the future of drone [..]
The Latvian information technology (IT) industry should place greater emphasis on exporting services and engaging with global markets, as many companies remain overly reliant on domestic public contracts, Ivo Almanis, [..]
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