Advancing the preparation of a digital euro, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the conclusion of the framework agreements for each of the five digital euro negotiated procurement procedures (also see the notice view in the Official Journal of the EU). A cooperation between Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) partnering with Nexi and Capgemini has now been selected as the first ranked tenderer in the framework agreement to provide an end-to-end solution to make digital euro payments offline avai...
FairPrice Group (FPG), Singapore’s largest retailer, today announced a strategic partnership with Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, to expand international payment acceptance across its outlets and launch the new Cheers Mini App on Alipay, an Alipay+ partner. The new Mini App is a dedicated virtual concierge for Chinese tourists in Singapore, designed to guide and support them throughout their visit from pre-arrival to pre-depa...
NIQ, a leading consumer intelligence company, today announced the launch of its data clean room on Snowflake, designed to enable both data enrichment and outcome measurement for leading marketers worldwide. This marks NIQ’s first data clean room dedicated to supporting these critical use cases for marketers, media owners, retail media networks, and ad tech platforms. Through secure collaboration via the Snowflake clean room, marketers can enrich their proprietary first-party data with NIQ’s p...
The global, 100% employee-owned, integrated design firm DLR Group has announced the appointment of Principal Eric Phillips, AIA, NCARB, as International Director. Phillips is a licensed architect with over 25 years of experience shaping and diversifying international and domestic design practices. In his new role, he will evolve DLR Group’s work in the Middle East and China and guide the integrated practice into new markets, from Canada and Europe to Asia and throughout the Pacific Rim. This p...
Leading financial technology provider payabl. has today announced that it has become one of the first licensed members of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and a direct participant in Wero, EPI’s newly launched pan-European, fast and secure digital wallet, already used by more than 43.5 million Europeans. By integrating as a direct acquirer, payabl. enables merchants, as well as other payment service providers (PSPs), across Europe to offer instant, secure account-to-account (A2A) paymen...
The Ibsen Scope Grants program offers funding for innovative performing arts projects and is now applicable for individual artists, theatre companies, institutions, and organizations worldwide. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251002841977/en/Instinto, Ibsen Scope Grant winner 2022 from Brazil. Photo by Vilmar Carvalho. The program amounts to a total of NOK 2.000.000,-. (Approx. Euro 180.000,- /USD 190.000,-). The pr...
Africa’s fastest-growing but least-served online markets are set to gain more affordable, reliable, and higher-speed internet access through a partnership between Raxio Group, the continent’s most expansive data centre operator, and Laser Light Africa, the regional unit of the U.S.-based operator of one of the world’s most advanced integrated digital networks. The landmark agreement pairs Raxio’s expanding network of world-class Tier III carrier-neutral data centres with Laser Light’s scale a...
This partnership brings together Aprovall’s 20 years of expertise in third-party risk assessment and management with Owlin’s global adverse media monitoring solution for evaluating and monitoring external third-party risk. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251002377785/en/Owlin and Aprovall announce strategic partnership By joining forces, Aprovall’s TPRM platform now incorporates Owlin’s intelligence, enabling its 32,0...
Astria Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATXS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing life-changing therapies for allergic and immunologic diseases, today announced that it has begun opening clinical trial sites in the European Union (EU) and may begin screening participants for the Phase 3 ALPHA-ORBIT trial of navenibart, an investigational monoclonal antibody inhibitor of plasma kallikrein in development for the treatment of hereditary angioedema (HAE) with the potential for dosing every...
Carta, the software platform purpose-built for private capital, today announced it has acquired Accelex, the AI-powered data automation platform focused on alternative investments for institutional limited partners (LPs). The acquisition deepens Carta’s commitment to serving its network of more than 125,000 Limited Partners by offering unprecedented clarity into the drivers of alternative asset portfolio performance. With our new LP Portfolio Analytics suite powered by Accelex, Carta will enabl...