The offering provides access to a vast ecosystem of real-time basket data powered by years of business intelligence that improves profitability

ATLANTA-Tuesday 30 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- PDI (www.pdisoftware.com), a global provider of ERP, Fuel Pricing, Logistics and Marketing Cloud solutions for the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industries, today announced it has enhanced its Offers and Insights business capabilities with PDI Insights Cloud, formerly SwiftIQ, to include real-time data and analytics that can help support convenience and fuel retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands as they begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Insights Cloud is now available to global convenience retailers and CPG (known internationally as fast-moving consumer goods) brands, giving them the ability to monitor daily and weekly trends as well as access more granular, receipt-level data. The solution also provides CPGs wit ... Read more »

Demonstrates Strong Progress Toward Delivering a Smoke-Free Future; Reaffirms and Broadens 2025 Aspirational Targets

LAUSANNE, Switzerland-Tuesday 30 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) today published its first Integrated Report, a comprehensive overview of the company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and its progress toward delivering a smoke-free future—including the company’s ambition to switch more than 40 million adult smokers to its smoke-free products by 2025, with half of the total to come from non-OECD countries.

PMI’s Integrated Report 2019 demonstrates the role of the organization's strategy, governance, and performance in the creation of value over the short, medium, and long terms. Further, the report shows PMI’s approach and important progress in various ESG areas, while setting new and ambitious targets f ... Read more »

 Within the last six months, the number of those investing in cryptocurrency has risen by 20 percent, due to recent declines in global markets. Narkasa, a recently launched cryptocurrency exchange based in Istanbul, hopes to soon let its clients conduct transactions in 156 national currencies.

ISTANBUL-Wednesday 1 July 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The global cryptocurrency market is currently worth almost $265 billion, with nearly $70 billion in transactions carried out every day. Meanwhile, 314 cryptocurrency exchanges are now in operation worldwide, according to Coinmarketcap. At most of these exchanges, however, cryptocurrencies can only be bought with US dollars or euros.

But this isn’t the case with Narkasa, an Istanbul-based cryptocurrency exchange that allows investors to buy crypto-assets with a number of different currencies. What’s more, the new service is offering a 50-percent fee discount on all transactions carried out w ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan-Tuesday 30 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On June 30, 2020, Panasonic Corporation announced that it has received the highest accolade as Best of Best in the Brand Design category at the Automotive Brand Contest 2020, which is organized by German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung). The award was given in recognition of the concept and design of the Panasonic Automotive business brand. The official award ceremony is planned to take place in autumn 2020.

The Automotive Brand Contest is the only international design competition for automotive brands. The German Design Council, founded in 1953, also runs internationally renowned design awards, such as the German Design Award and the ICONIC Awards.

The Automotive Brand Contest covers all creative aspects in the automotive industry across the world – from vehicle design to corporate publishing. This year's winners also include global brands, such as Audi, BMW, Buick, Byton, Contin ... Read more »

F&G to use FINEOS Claims, a major component of FINEOS AdminSuite, the only modern component-based group and individual core system for Life, Accident and Health on a single technology platform

ATLANTA-Tuesday 30 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FINEOS Corporation (ASX:FCL), the leading core platform for life, accident and health insurance globally, is delighted to announce today it has signed a new license agreement with F&G. They will use FINEOS Claims in their life and annuity claims processes.

FINEOS Claims is the leading customer-centric, web-based claims processing software. Used globally by many leading insurance organizations and a major product component of the FINEOS AdminSuite, FINEOS Claims supports both group and individual claims on the cloud native FINEOS Platform. It has been deployed by carriers of all sizes, from small departmental claims teams to large teams with thousands of users and millions of claims.

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Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 30 June 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

A ground station that will track and communicate with a satellite built by American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) students has opened on the University’s campus.

The ground station is capable of communicating with satellites in orbit by sending commands and receiving telemetry, images and science data back from them.

The satellite project is a collaboration between the UAE Space Agency, AURAK and Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KUST).

Among those present at the opening of the ground station were AURAK’s President, Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, Senior Vice President and Provost, Prof. Stephen Wilhite, Acting Vice President of Operational Excellence and Financial Management, Dr. Mohammed Saqr Al Zaabi, and Interim Dean of the School of Engineering, Dr. Hamed Assaf.

“The ground station was fully built by AURAK engineers and students ... Read more »