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The Turkish Competition Board has initiated an investigation into global payment giants Mastercard and Visa over allegations of anti-competitive practices in Türkiye.

A notable number of American citizens dissatisfied with Donald Trump's recent election victory are considering relocation to Europe through Golden Visa programs, with Greece emerging as one of the preferred destinations.

Hello, we’ve just come out of a satisfying long weekend for the October 28th holiday with a lot of traffic on the national highways as well as the Attiki Odos, which now inevitably needs to be expanded in the coming years because, simply put, it can’t hold us all anymore.

Thousands of empty and decaying ground-floor shops, mainly in the center of Athens and of Thessaloniki, now have the opportunity to be transformed. According to property market executives, the new Golden Visa provisions have already begun to mobilize investment interest in the acquisition of such properties, which can be converted into apartments.

The increase in investment by British, Americans and Israelis in the domestic real estate market, through the Golden Visa program, has been steep over the last year. This stems from the official figures of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum, showing very large increases in the granting of initial permanent investor permits.

A program initiated for Turkish businesspeople will expedite U.S. visa procedures for companies selected based on criteria favored by Washington, daily Milliyet has reported.

The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched thorough investigations into the opaque world of the Golden Visa program following information from Chinese authorities, delivered to the head of the Authority and honorary Supreme Court prosecutor, Charalambos Vourliotis, about illegal syndicates surrounding property purchases in Greece.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Sept. 24, alleging the company illegally maintains a monopoly over the use of debit cards in the United States.

Credit card spending increased by 94 percent in July compared with the same month last year to hit 1.2 trillion Turkish Liras ($35.5 billion), according to data from the Interbank Card Center (BKM).

The annual increase in card spending slowed from 105 percent in June and 111 percent in May.

Owners of neglected properties, half-finished buildings, old houses, and other owners with two- or three-story buildings who want to take them off the rental market due to their age are doing whatever they can to pass them on to individual brokers (both Greek and foreign) or developers while the low limit of €250,000 under the Golden Visa program is still in effect.