Poverty reduction, ensuring of national security, promotion of entrepreneurship and productive investments as well as increasing financial self-sufficiency of municipal budgets – ways forward for the growing country viewed by both the Government and the Seimas. Today, 84 members of the Seimas voted for the Law on the Approval of Financial Indicators of the State Budget and ...

An independent Payments Council, which is to help develop Lithuania’s payments market, commenced work on 21 November this year. During their first meeting, representatives of payment service providers, enterprises and residents, state authorities and the academic community, ...

Lithuania reopened two Eurobonds issues of 10 years and 30 years, both issued initially on May, 2017, and issued EUR 350 million and EUR 200 million tranches respectively in the international capital markets today. „This transaction completes our borrowing programme in the international capital markets. We ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to create a pan-Baltic capital market to strengthen their economies and stimulate investment to create jobs with support of the European Commission (EC) and the EBRD. The Ministers of Finance – Toomas Tõniste for Estonia, Dana Reizniece-Ozola for Latvia and Vilius Šapoka for Lithuania – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)[RA1]  ...

Today, the Minister of Finance had a meeting with recently appointed Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Alexander Stubb responsible, among other tasks, for the EIB activities in the Baltic States. During the meeting they discussed the implementation of the Multi-Apartment Building ...

20 Lithuanian companies of financial technologies merged into the association “Fintech Lietuva”, the establishment of which has been encouraged and supported by the Ministry of Finance, Bank of Lithuania and other public authorities. “In my opinion, it is the most important to have not only an idea and direction, but also a plan ...

In Raudondvaris manor the most relevant and attractive projects of the European Union (EU) Funds’ investments in Lithuania were granted “Europos burės 2017 (“European Sails 2017”) awards. Almost 10 thousand people voted for the projects implemented by the EU funds and determined which ones deserve to win – those with the highest value added ...

In order to improve financial literacy of the population, five public authorities have agreed on implementing together the Financial Education Plan for the Public by 2021. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Bank of Lithuania, the State tax Inspectorate and Sodra acting together will aim at improving the skills of ...

Lithuania successfully issued two Eurobonds in the international capital markets today – EUR 750 million 10-year and EUR 550 million 30-year bonds. „Lithuania has borrowed a large amount for a long duration by issuing a dual tranche Eurobond. The decision to borrow for such duration was made taking into ...

On 18 May 2017 the Ministry of Finance together with the Lithuanian Financial Markets Institute (LFMI) will host the Fifth Annual International Financial Markets Conference in Vilnius. According to Minister of Finance Vilius Šapoka, it is gratifying to know that so many top-level experts are coming to Lithuania to share their ...

Lithuania creates the most favourable across the European Union (EU) tax regime for investments in research, commercialisation of inventions, new technologies. Today the tax proposals opening the way for it have been presented by Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Minister of Finance Vilius Šapoka. “I believe that these decisions together with other measures may contribute to ...