By PR Newswire MONTRÉAL, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Hapbee Technologies, Inc. (TSXV: HAPB) (OTCQB: HAPBF) (FSE: HA1) (“Hapbee” or the “Company”), the Canadian-based wearable, wellness technology company and creator of the Hapbee headband is pleased to provide the following shareholder letter from Hapbee CEO Yona Shtern. Dear shareholders, Why are we here? When I was first approached about the opportunity to become CEO of Hapbee, I was highly skeptical (as I have discovered most people are) and I almost missed out on the most important journey of my professional life. It didn’t take long for …
By Michael Holden and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has been ordered by the High Court in London to provide a British record of more than 554 million pounds ($733 million) to settle a custody battle with his ex-wife over their two children. The bulk of the massive award to Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, half-sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah, and the couple’s two children, is to ensure their lifetime security, not least to address the “grave risk” posed to them by the sheikh himself, the judge, Philip Moor, said. The judge said: “She i…
By Michael Holden and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – From buying racehorses on a whim to owning a roomful of jewellery, the London custody battle between Dubai’s ruler and his ex-wife has shone a light on the opulent lifestyle of ultra rich Middle Eastern royalty. A ruling published on Tuesday by a judge at the High Court detailed an order to Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum to provide more than 554 million pounds ($733 million) to settle a long-running custody battle with his ex-wife, Jordan’s Princess Haya, over their two children. Here are details of some of the evid…
Early in the morning, 20-something Istabraq Mohammad starts her working day at a waste-sorting station in Irbid province in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, where she hands out general safety equipment to staff to protect them from risk of infection. Istabraq’s job is feeding all the plastic waste into a machine which crushes it ready to be converted into new plastic products. She then switches focus to the cardboard waste – this needs to be inserted into a giant press which folds and packs it so that it can be sold to carton factories. Though she has a degree in early child education w…
تكريم عمليات تنفيذ الحلول المبتكرة لدى Tata Mutual Fund وMurabaha Marena وAlkhaleej Bank وQuara Finance وEmkan Finance
سنغافورة في21كانون الأول/ديسمبر2021 – يسرّ شركة Azentio Software، الشركة الرائدة في توفير حلول البرمجيات مقرها سنغافورة والمملوكة بالكاملمن قبل صناديق إستثمارية تديرها Apax Partners، أن تعلن عن فوزها بخمس جوائز خلال حفل توزيع جوائز الإبتكار العالمي في مجال التكنولوجيا الماليّة لعام 2021 من موقع IBS Intelligence. ويسعى برنامج الجوائز المرموقة هذا إلى تكريم المصارف والمؤسسات المالية والرّواد في مجال التكنولوجيا لتميزهم في إحداث تأثيرات إجابية من خلال تنفيذ ابتكارات التكنولوجيا في الخدمات المصرفية.
برزت IBSi كشركةً عالميةً رائدةً في مجال الأخبار المستقلة والمتعمقة والأبحاث والتحليلات والاستشارات في سوق التقنيات المالية، حيث أطلقت جوائز الابتكار في مجال التكنولوجيا الماليّة للاحتفاء بأفضل مزودي الخدمات المصرفية والتكنولوجيا المالية عالميًا، إذ تقدم هذا العام 199 طلباً من 48 دولة للتنافس على المراكز الأولى عن 30 فئة مختلفة.
علّق مدير التحرير في موقع IBS Intelligence، روبن أملوت، مهنئًا: “يسرني أن أشيد بأداء Azentio المثالي في حفل الجوائز هذا بنسخته الثالثة، فقد حققت على مدار السنين نموًا استثنائيًا تُوّج بنيلها 5 جوائز عن فئات مختلفة، ما عجز عنه الكثيرون في ظل هكذا منافسة محتدمة”.
ونوّه الرئيس التنفيذي لـAzentio، طوني كينيير، قائلاً: “نحن نعتزّ بهذه الجوائز المرموقة، لاسيما أننا وضعنا أهدافًا عالية السقف لعام 2021، فبرزنا كشريكًا استراتيجيًا لكثير من عمليات التنفيذ الرئيسية لدى مؤسسات مالية بارزة. وأثنى هذا الانجاز على التزامنا في تعزيز الابتكار وإصرارنا على دفع عملائنا نحو التحول الرقمي في عملياتهم المصرفية”.
وكانت الجوائز التكريمية كالتالي:
· جائزة أفضل عملية تنفيذ لإدارة الصناديق والاستثمار تكريمًا لتطبيق MFund Plus™ لإدارة الثروات والأصول الأكثر تأثيراً لدى Tata Mutual Fund في الهند.
· جائزة أفضل عملية تنفيذ للخدمات المصرفيّة الإسلامية تكريمًا لتطبيقKastle™لحل الإقراض الشامل الأكثر تأثيراً لدىFinance Murabaha Marena في المملكة العربية السعودية.
· جائزة أفضل عملية تنفيذ للخدمات المصرفيّة الإسلامية تكريمًا لأفضل تطبيق لمنصة iMAL للخدمات المصرفية الإسلامية الأساسية لدى Alkhaleej Bank في السودان.
· جائزة المبادرة الفعالة للمعاملات الرقمية واللاورقيةتكريمًا لتطبيقKastle™لحل الإقراض الشامل الأكثر تأثيراً لدى Quara Finance في المملكة العربية السعودية.
· جائزة النموذج الأكثر ابتكارًا لواجهة برمجة التطبيقات والخدمات المصرفية المفتوحة تكريمًا لتطبيقKastle™لحل الإقراض الشامل الأكثر إبداعاً لدى Emkan Finance في المملكة العربية السعودية.
لمحة عن Azentio
تࣳوفر Azentio Software حلولاً برمجيةً تتصف بالمهام الحرجة الخاصة بالقطاع المصرفي، كما تقدم خدمات مالية وتأمين متنوعة. لدى Azentio أكثر من 800 عميل في أكثر من 60 دولة مع فريق عمل يضم أكثر من2,000 موظف ولها مكاتب في 9 دول حول العالم.
IBS Intelligence (IBSi) هي المصدر الموثوق للأخبار المستقلة والمتعمقة والأبحاث والتحليلات والاستشارات في سوق التقنيات المالية، إذ اتسعت قاعدة عملائها حول العالم على مدى 30 عامًا مع سجل حافل بالإنجازات. وتفخر الشركة بأن تكون في طليعة شركات التحليلات والمعيار الأهم لأداء مبيعات مزوّدي التكنولوجيا المصرفية، إذ تغطي أكثر من 400 مزوّد للتكنولوجيا المصرفية والمالية حول العالم.
Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., Dec. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blue California, the producer of natural science-based ingredients, provides FineCap™ a comprehensive microencapsulation technology platform, equipped with 20 microencapsulation technologies, to deliver active ingredients and satisfy our clients’ needs.
Microencapsulation is the process in which tiny particles of solid, liquid, or gas are packaged within a matrix to form a capsule. The capsule is coated with a protective layer to avoid degradation from exposure to environmental factors such as water, oxygen, heat, and light.
“Brands that seek to expand their products’ qualities and boost their product portfolios will find many benefits to the FineCap platform,” said Dr. Cuie Yan, vice president of encapsulation. “FineCap takes microencapsulation a step further by offering a variety of technologies and targeting customers’ specific needs in tackling active ingredients with unique characteristics, such as strong odor, taste or stability problems that challenge formulators.”
Microencapsulation systems have been widely used across multiple industries, including the pharmaceutical, food, supplement, personal care, and fragrance industries, for active ingredients like medicines, nicotine, flavors/fragrances, polyunsaturated fatty acids, probiotics, natural pigments, vitamins, antioxidants, etc. Space agency NASA also uses encapsulation technologies for spacecraft. The pharmaceutical industry uses microencapsulation often to control the release of active pharma ingredients (API).
Blue California has created the FineCap platform to serve customers’ growing demands for better performance of API, functional ingredients, dietary supplements, flavors, fragrances, cosmetics, and personal care products.
For example, FineCap protects API from degradation, unpleasant tastes or aroma, and maintains its efficacy, by controlling its release. FineCap enables flavors to thrive in food and beverages with integrity, intensity, and extended shelf-life.
In fragrances, FineCap guarantees brands to control the precise fragrance release rate, location, and duration. Personal care products benefit from FineCap by protecting the delicate top-notes and cosmetic actives from oxygen, moisture, temperature, and light deterioration. A more comprehensive look into the benefits that FineCap delivers in these product segments can be found here.
“Our comprehensive FineCap platform has been serving and supporting formulators looking to launch market-winning products with better qualities and shelf-life that consumers are seeking,” said Dr. Yan. “We’re enabling brands to quickly create products from innovative concepts, benchtop development, to pilot and full commercial manufacturing, with improved efficacy, taste, color, texture, and shelf life, along with vegan, organic, Kosher, or Halal certificate.”
The FineCap platform investment builds on Blue California’s 25-year legacy of producing botanical extracts and now natural flavors and fragrances and focuses on developing sustainable ingredients made through bioconversion or fermentation.
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About Blue California
Blue California is an entrepreneurial, science-based solutions provider and manufacturer of clean, natural, and sustainable ingredients used in food, beverage, flavor, fragrance, dietary supplements, personal care, and cosmetic products. For more than 25 years, Blue California has built a strong reputation for creating value in these diverse natural products and nature-inspired industries.
MAPUTO, Mozambique, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Globeleq, the leading independent power company in Africa and its project partners, Source Energia, a Lusophone Africa energy developer and Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), the Mozambican national power utility, have reached financial close on the 19MWp (15MWac) Cuamba Solar PV plant with a 2MW (7MWh) energy storage system.
The US$36 million project located in the Cuamba district, Niassa province (about 550 km west of the coastal town of Nacala) will supply electricity through a 25-year power purchase agreement with EDM. The project is the first IPP in Mozambique to integrate a utility scale energy storage system and includes an upgrade to the existing Cuamba substation.
Once operational, the Cuamba Solar plant will supply enough power for 21,800 consumers, and over the life of the project is expected to avoid the equivalent of more than 172,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. First power is expected to flow in the second half of 2022.
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (“EAIF”), a member of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (“PIDG”) provided US$19 million in debt funding, with PIDG’s Viability Gap Funding (VGF) grant facility providing US$7million to enable an affordable tariff, fund essential grid upgrades and an energy storage system for EDM. CDC Plus, the technical assistance facility of CDC Group, has contributed a US$1million grant towards the battery energy storage system.
Olivia Carballo, a Director at Ninety One Ltd, the managers of EAIF, commented: “This is a pioneering project for EAIF and PIDG. We congratulate Globeleq, Source Energia, EDM and Mozambique on reaching a key milestone in deploying more solar technology to the northern grid, and on installing Mozambique’s first grid-scale battery energy storage system.”
Sarah Marchand, CDC Director, CDC Plus, said: “We are delighted to support one of sub-Saharan Africa’s first grid-scale battery energy storage systems through this grant for the battery storage system. In line with CDC’s ambition to catalyse more storage solutions across the continent, CDC Plus will also offer support to capture and disseminate learnings around the battery component’s operational, economic, and development impact.”
“With the ongoing challenges due to the pandemic, I am proud our team has achieved financial close, and we can begin building the first solar and energy storage facility in the country. We fully support the Mozambican Government in their initiatives to support the Paris Agreement and provide its citizens with reliable and clean alternative energy options,” added Mike Scholey, Globeleq’s CEO.
EDM’s Chairman, Marcelino Gildo Alberto said: “This project is a demonstration of EDM’s commitment to provide sustainable solutions to speed up energy access to Mozambicans. In compliance with the Government’s Five-Year Plan to introduce 200MW of renewable energy, EDM is at the forefront of the energy transition in line with the Paris Agreement.”
“We are very pleased to make another contribution to the Mozambique Energy sector and look forward to supporting the future growth of the industry in the country. Our thanks go to our project partners and funders for their unparalleled patience and commitment during the development phase,” said Pedro Coutinho, CEO of Source Energia
The project will require approximately 100 workers during construction, many of whom will be hired from the local community. The Spanish company Grupo TSK has been appointed as the project EPC contractor and will immediately commence mobilisation of its construction team. E22, part of the Spanish Gransolar Group, will supply the complete battery energy storage system. Globeleq will oversee the construction and operations of the power plant, supported by Source Energia.
MOSCOW, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Investae received the World Finance 100 Award in 2021 and has been praised for both its accomplishments and outstanding innovation by the British financial magazine ‘World Finance’.
Investae is a fintech, which prides itself on serving clients in over 30 countries. The company provides solutions for investment firms, bond issuers, wealth managers, private bankers, as well as alternative investment fund managers, and is designed to simplify the often-complex capital-raising process.
“We are truly honored to be featured in the World Finance 100 list. In the world of finance, simplicity and investors knowledge are the key issues. We are dedicated to achieving the highest performance in the industry” – Managing Director of Investae, Gerald Autier.
The financial world is changing rapidly and undergoing a digital revolution. Undoubtedly, it is becoming increasingly difficult for anyone looking to raise capital to stand out in such an overcrowded marketplace. Nowadays, approaching investors requires a soft-skilled and informative approach, instead of simply soliciting. Similarly, financial professionals need an effortless, smooth-running, and time-saving sales process. We strongly believe that raising capital from investors requires a more sophisticated marketing approach, which utilizes all the benefits that our diverse digital tools bring to the field. The sell-side of the investment industry has been left behind by asset managers, who often use approaches that are very similar to one another but are lacking in efficiency.
Our aim is to simplify the distribution of financial instruments; We innovate by striving to simplify each step of the capital-raising process as much as physically possible, allowing investment managers to focus on what they do best: managing money. We offer a unique solution in the market, providing our clients with guidance, sales and marketing tools, ongoing support, and a continual improvement of results.
The World Finance 100 celebrates those who have reached the pinnacle of achievement across a wide variety of expert fields, as well as those organizations and individuals that lead the way in driving their industries forward. Each year, World Finance compiles the list of 100 individuals and companies – not according to capitalization figures or growth – but purely based on excellence in their field.
SAN FRANCISCO — With Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins in the league’s COVID protocols and unable to play, the Warriors were looking for someone to help Steph Curry carry the offensive load Monday against the Sacramento Kings. But many hands make light work. Or, as the Warriors would say — there’s strength in numbers. The Warriors had six players score double-digit points, the Golden State bench combined for 47 points, and Draymond Green had his first triple-double of the season to back up Curry, who scored 30 points — 15 in the fourth quarter — in Golden State’s 113-98 win. Those many Golden St…
HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Uniview held its 3rd Global Partner Summit “Transform. Evolve.” in the form of live streaming during its 10th Anniversary. The invitation-only virtual event featured discussions on how surveillance industry can tackle the challenges after COVID-19 – forcing the transition to a new normal, post-pandemic future. CEO of Univew, Hermit Zhang, gave a strong opening for the Summit and Ximen Yan, the President of the International Business Department, delivered his quick take on what transformation Uniview is going to take, to evolve into the future. Over 1,500 partners attended the meeting.
Key findings from the presentations include:
Uniview launched video conference lines
Uniview SMB intelligent monitoring scheme enables all industries to reorganize order, improve efficiency and achieve growth
Uniview increased the digital marketing activity to empower partners and received considerable results
Sitting in the front line of the stage: new service, new product
Uniview launched a full series of heat-tracking equipment, “to help coping with the sudden shift of life and business”, Product Marketing Director Liu said. New video conference line is designed to adapt users to new lifestyles, realizing qualitative non-contact communication. He demonstrated the company’s approach to reorganize and transform product category so to cover smart security, smart home and smart business.
Offstage: industrial reformation for surveillance solutions
SMB intelligent monitoring scheme enables all industries to reorganize order, improve efficiency and achieve growth. While product lines at Uniview are being expanded, the according smart solutions include algorithms like, People Counting, People Flow Control, Smart Intrusion Prevention, etc., optimize business management. Joyce, Product Director, explained its take to effectively reinforce small to medium business dealing with industrial transformation via its need and technology based customizable solution approach.
What does the backstage looks like?
Product director, Jason, described the company’s approach on intelligent algorithms, Tri-Guard and ColorHunter technologies. He mentioned, from traditional cameras to deep learning cameras, Uniview will continue to upgrade technology in image performance, video analysis, AI, big data, etc., and to improve innovation capabilities.
The Summit ended with significant accomplishments, including launches on online conferencing tools, as well as smart home gadgets, completed the product transition from traditional surveillance to smart home/ smart business. The summit also rewarded royal and dedicated partners for outstanding performances, and encourage to return in 2022 with stronger pledges to continuous dedication.
