i2c Appoints Payments Veteran as General Manager for MEA

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Tuesday 3 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- i2c Inc., a leading provider of payment and open banking technology, today announced it is expanding its presence in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) due to high demand in the region for its solutions. i2c partners with financial institutions, fintechs and governments using its unique i2c agile processing technology and APIs to bring innovative credit, debit, prepaid, and multi-currency solutions to market quickly.

To support the growth in MEA, i2c added a General Manager position to its team and is announcing today the appointment of payments industry veteran Aurangzaib Khan to the position. Khan is based in Dubai.

Prior to joining i2c, Khan was VP, Government Business Development for Mastercard in the UAE and Oman where he managed government relationships and engagement in the areas of policy and r ... Read more »

NOIDA, India.-Tuesday 3 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

    Three winning NGOs in categories of Education, Healthcare & Environment felicitated by Mr. Kapil Dev
    Winners received a grant of ₹15 crore (US$ 2.1Mn)

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HCL Foundation (HCLF), the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of HCL Technologies, today announced the recipients of the fifth edition of HCL Grant in the presence of Padma Bhushan, Mr. Kapil Dev, a legend in the global world of cricket and former captain of the Indian Cricket team.

HCL Grant is one of the biggest and most coveted institutionalized CSR grants in India that aims to recognize the rise of the Fifth Estate - the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

The evening was also graced by Mr. Shiv Nadar, Founder & Chairman, HCL, Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Vice Chairperson of HCL Technologies and the Chairperson of its CSR committee, and Mr. Prateek Aggarwal, Chief Financial ... Read more »

 Acquisition brings together top leaders in the email market to power the largest global data network of any delivery analytics provider

BOSTON-Tuesday 3 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Validity, the most trusted name in customer data quality, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire email analytics and deliverability provider 250ok. Since 2011, 250ok has developed email management software and innovative tools used by businesses of every size. With this acquisition, Validity broadens its optimization capabilities across the global ecosystem of email service providers.

Email remains a critical channel for marketers to attract and engage customers. However, keeping messages out of the spam folder and delighting recipients continues to be a challenge. Mailbox providers work hard to protect users from spam and threats, and inboxes are crowded with unoptimized, spray-and-pray approaches to marketin ... Read more »

“Uptake of independent third-party support is increasing year over year,” report finds

LAS VEGAS -Tuesday 3 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that, according to a recent research note from Gartner, the third-party enterprise software support market is expected to grow from $351 million in 2019 to $1.05 billion by 2023 – a 200% increase.1 Rimini Street reported annualized recurring revenue of $274 million in its 2019 Q3 Earnings filed publicly on November 7, 2019.

Key Gartner Research Note Findings

According to the Gartner research note, “Compared with the first nine months of 2018, the first nine months of 2019 show a 50% increase in Gartner client inquiries related to third-party support” ... Read more »

 New Global Health Supply Chain Maturity Model Will Identify Gaps and Implement Solutions in Order to Standardize Supply Chain

CHICAGO-Tuesday 3 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) announced its continued Global Health Initiative (GHI) efforts in Africa to strengthen public health and humanitarian supply chains with upcoming leadership forums in Nigeria (March 19) and Kenya (March 24). These one-day leadership forums will bring together industry executives from multi-national companies and the Ministries of Health in sub-Saharan Africa to foster regional supply chain solutions.

ASCM’s Global Health Initiative is a long-term strategy focused on modernizing supply chain processes around the world. Recent work has focused on workforce development and digital transformation across supply chains in Senegal, Nigeria and Kenya, and have helped improve the delivery of food, me ... Read more »