Uphold, Heleum, Acre first to build applications using Cred’s API Platform

SAN FRANCISCO-Tuesday 11 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cred, the leading provider of crypto-backed lending with over $300 million in credit facilities, today announced the launch of CredX, Cred’s developer platform, enabling any company or developer to turn their products into powerful financial applications for their customers. Crypto exchanges, crypto wallets, miner service providers, even traditional financial institutions have the ability to access Crypto Lending as a Service (CLaaS™) and create a rich set of customer experiences for their customers.

“Lending and Earning Crypto are hard businesses to get right, particularly in a bear market,” said Dan Schatt, Co-Founder of Cred and the Universal Protocol Alliance. “A crypto custodian, wallet, merchant or exchange business can now offer their customers compelling credit and ... Read more »

LONDON-Sunday 16 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Residence- and citizenship-by-investment programs have firmly established themselves over the past few years as the new frontier in terms of freedom, flexibility, and future-readiness, both for the countries issuing these programs and for the individual investors participating in them.

The societal and economic value these programs generate is undisputed. The investment migration industry as a whole is currently grossing roughly USD 18 billion per year, with an expectation that it will hit the USD 20 billion mark very soon.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is now considered the lifeblood of economic growth for many developing and recovering smaller countries around the world. As such, the number of investment migration programs has been increasing rapidly, from just a handful of programs in the 1980s and 1990s to over 100 countries that now have investment migration provisions in their laws. Ther ... Read more »

 Agreement with Ioniqa Reflects Investment in Promising New Recycling Technologies

ATLANTA-Friday 14 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Coca-Cola Company today announced a new agreement extending a loan to Ioniqa Technologies (The Netherlands) to facilitate the development of Ioniqa’s proprietary technology to produce high-grade, recycled PET content from hard-to-recycle PET waste. The agreement is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of high-grade recycled content PET for use in bottles used by The Coca-Cola Company.

This investment supports the company’s global vision to work toward a World Without Waste, which includes a goal to create packaging made of at least 50% recycled material by 2030. The new technology supports the circular economy for plastics by allowing packages such as colored PET bottles that may have been excluded from certain recycling streams to be recycled into food-grade qu ... Read more »

• 20.4% of board seats of the largest companies globally are now held by women, up from 18.5% in 2016.

• With the rate of progress towards parity decelerating, and with nearly three quarters of all new appointments still going to men, fully balanced boards will never be achieved without a significant increase in the hiring of female directors.

• Egon Zehnder calls on business to appoint at least three women per board in order to reach a “critical mass” and reap the benefits of gender diversity.

LONDON & NEW YORK & ZURICH-Tuesday 11 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Egon Zehnder, the world's leadership advisory firm, today released the results of its 2018 Global Board Diversity Tracker. The study shows the accelerating growth seen in female directors in Western Europe is now levelling off, and growth elsewhere remains sluggish, suggesting gender parity on boards may never be reached at the curr ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Saturday 15 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

The Spinneys Dubai 92 Cycle Challenge will take place this weekend,with Junior Ridesfor young cyclists from 5 pm to 9 pmon December 13thanda 92km ride between 6 am and 11 am on December 14th. The Cycle Challenge’s Official Rehabilitation and Performance Partner isnanoM, a state-of-the-art sports and human performance facility that provides amateur and professional athletes with comprehensive health and fitness analyses.

Thursday’s timed Junior Rides at the Dubai Autodrome were designed for 6 to 15 year olds, and the title ride on Friday will start and finish at Dubai Autodrome. The organisers are expecting an impressive turnout; more than the 2,000 cyclists from around the world that participated in the hugely successful 2017 Cycle Challenge.

Karan Rekhi, Vice President – Operations of nanoM, said, “nanoM is delighted to support this year’s Cycle Challenge. We p ... Read more »

Next Generation Neutrino Cores to Enable Measurement, Sensing, Surveillance, Security, and Drone Applications

WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Saturday 15 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced three Neutrino™ midwave infrared (MWIR) camera cores: the small, lightweight FLIR Neutrino LC and two FLIR Neutrino Performance series cores, the SX12 and QX. The latest models expand the FLIR Neutrino cooled camera core family for commercial, industrial, and defense original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators.

The Neutrino LC is FLIR’s first High Operating Temperature (HOT) MWIR camera core and the first model in the SWaP+C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) series. As the smallest, lightest weight, and lowest power consuming Neutrino model available, the LC can be integrated with smaller drones and allow drone operators to fly longer. With HOT technology, Neutrino starts imaging two times faster t ... Read more »

Launching This New CBD-Infused Coffee Line, Company Brings Homes and Offices Nationwide an Enhanced and Chill Coffee Drinking Experience

MIAMI-Saturday 15 December 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Diamond CBD Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: POTN), a leader in hemp extraction and innovative CBD products for the wellness market, enters the Coffee segment, an industry expected to reach revenues of $46 Billion in 2018.

Produced in accordance with a universal K-Cup design, these pods fit in almost all modern single cup coffee makers, making it an easily integrated enhancement to any environment, delivering 25mgs of CBD in a tasty favorite beverage at less than $5 per cup.

This new line of premium Chill Coffee Capsules was recently added to the Company’s broad range of cannabinoid and natural hemp products. Each box comes with 4 individual capsules in original chill coffee, decaf chill coffee, ... Read more »