Today, Mr Paschal Donohoe, President of the Eurogroup (EG) and Minister of Finance of Ireland, who is currently on a visit to Vilnius, first met with Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania Gintarė Skaistė. During the bilateral meeting, the ministers discussed the economic outlook ...

The Magazine The Banker, a member of the Financial Times publication group, announced Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė to be the winner of the  Finance Minister of the Year in global and European context. Each year, the Magazine compiles the list of the best finance ministers of the year, ...

Today the Seimas adopted a package of amendments to the Law on Markets in Financial Instruments prepared by the Ministry of Finance, which transposes the European Union directives and regulations thus providing more opportunities for crowdfunding companies and creating conditions for better risk ...

The Lithuanian Ministry of Finance and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have announced substantial new support for Lithuanian SMEs in the context of the Pan-European Guarantee Fund (EGF). Guarantee agreements with five Lithuanian financial intermediaries will make available up to an additional €364 million in new ...

State institutions and market participants will continue to work together to strengthen Lithuania’s position as a regional financial innovation hub. Future vision, maturity and other issues relevant to FinTech companies were discussed at event organised by the Bank of Lithuania. ...

Today Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė met with Mr. Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The focus of the meeting was the deepening of cooperation between Lithuania and the IMF. During the meeting Minister G. Skaistė and Deputy Managing Director of the IMF B. Li ...

The hybrid annual meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) will take place on 14-17 October. This year’s meetings focus on discussions on further steps to contain the pandemic, including acceleration of ...

After Lithuania achieved a breakthrough in the financial technology (Fintech) sector over the last few years− it is natural that the volume of risks increases, therefore, according to Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė, it is very important for market participants and ...

More than 200 international and Lithuanian experts and decision makers in finance and economics gathered in Vilnius today to take part in the 8th International Financial Markets Conference “Developing Capital Markets in the Baltics”, which was organized by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of ...

Today Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė had a meeting with Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann. The meeting focused on the international process on the review of corporate income tax ...

On Monday for the first time Lithuanian investors were offered to tap in an auction a Eurobond that was previously issued in the international markets. The auction was the first step in ensuring the investors have an option to buy more liquid Government securities, whereas Lithuania borrowed at better terms.

In Slovenia Minister of Finance Gintarė Skaistė during the meeting with the Euro Commissioner for Financial Markets Policy Mairead McGuinness noted that Lithuania has the ambition to become the AML competence centre in Europe. According to the Minister, Lithuania supports the European Commission’s proposal to ...