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Kosmowski to lead $3.6B division delivering connected intelligence and AI platforms to financial institutions and enterprises worldwide, at the core of the company’s growth strategy.
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) announced today that, in June, Christina Kosmowski will become Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Analytics. Ms. Kosmowski brings nearly three decades of enterprise technology experience to the role, with a proven track record of accelerating growth at scale, building enduring customer partnerships, and harnessing innovation to drive business outcomes at some of the world’s leading technology companies.
"Christina has spent her career doing something rare: translating cutting-edge technology and analytics into real, scalable business value,” said Rob Fauber, President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Corporation. “That is exactly what Moody's Analytics customers expect from us as they navigate a rapidly changing and complex operating
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(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Invivoscribe®, a global leader in precision diagnostics and measurable residual disease (MRD) testing, today announced the launch of the PrepQuant™ System, a novel sample preparation platform that integrates nucleic acid extraction, concentration, and quantification with a single automated instrument. This innovative system is designed to standardize sample preparation and simplify pre-analytical workflows to reduce costs and eliminate a primary source of inconsistency in molecular testing.
Developed in collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, the PrepQuant System combines Invivoscribe’s expertise in developing standardized molecular assays, providing global clinical testing services, along with Hitachi High-Tech’s proven technological and manufacturing capabilities. Hitachi High-Tech has an extensive global installed base of life science and clinical diagnostic instruments.
The PrepQuant System is assay agnostic, generating highly concentra
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(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hyuga Hirano (United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and collaborative graduate student at the National Museum of Nature and Science (President: Makoto Manabe)); Takashi Kikuchi (Application Laboratories, Global Product Unit, Rigaku Corporation, a group company of Rigaku Holdings); Futa Sakakibara (Technical Advisor, R&D Support Division, Asterism G.K.); Yoshinori Murai (Senior curator, Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science); and colleagues have successfully determined the structures of more than ten phenolic glycosides from a tiny sample of an alpine plant flower by developing a trace analysis method. This achievement is particularly significant because alpine plants are typically small and difficult to collect due to legal, ethical, and environmental considerations, resulting in extremely limited sample availability. Determining the structures of numerous chemical components from su
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The expanded deal between Amazfit and HYROX transforms a successful regional collaboration into a worldwide partnership, supporting the rapid global growth of HYROX and the hybrid training movement
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazfit, a leading global smart wearable brand owned by Zepp Health, today announced a new three-year global partnership with HYROX, the World Series of Fitness Racing, significantly expanding the existing regional collaboration into a worldwide agreement.
This expanded partnership enhances the experience of HYROX athletes and participants across training, racing, and recovery through a broader set of exclusive smart wearable categories — including smart watches, smart rings, smart cameras, smart glasses, and smart straps — together with connected app experiences, HYROX-specific training modes, and selected performance-data integrations. As the partnership evolves, Amazfit and HYROX will also deepen their collaboration across the broader HYROX ecosystem, i
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Cynthia Dwork, Ph.D. in the Field of Electronics, Information, and Communication
Shizuo Akira, Ph.D. and Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D. in the Field of Life Science
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Japan Prize Foundation (President: Ryozo Nagai) held an award ceremony on Tuesday, April 14, at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward to confer the Japan Prize on scientists who have made creative and dramatic achievements in the global scientific and technological fields and who have contributed significantly to realizing peace and prosperity for all humanity.
Cynthia Dwork, Ph.D. (USA), the winner in the field of Electronics, Information, and Communication, and Shizuo Akira, Ph.D. (Japan) and Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D. (USA), the winners in the field of Life Science, were in attendance at the award ceremony, and each field was awarded 100 million Yen together with a certificate and a medal.
The winners of the 2026 Japan Prize were recommended by approximate
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LONDON - Tuesday, 14. April 2026 AETOSWire
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Plasma, the company behind the first stablecoin-native neobank and the infrastructure powering it, has announced the appointment of Zaheer Ebtikar as Chief Strategy Officer. The appointment reinforces Plasma's commitment to making stablecoins practical for everyday use worldwide, beginning with the launch of its stablecoin-native neobank, Plasma One.
Ebtikar brings more than eight years at the centre of crypto markets, combining macroeconomic insight with deep relationships across the institutional, trading, and infrastructure layers of the ecosystem. As Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Split Capital, he built one of crypto's most prominent hedge funds. He has also held senior roles at LedgerPrime, Deribit, and Immutable Capital.
The global stablecoin supply has nearly doubled in the past year. Institutions worldwide are racing to define their strategies, yet no product has bridged the gap bet
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LONDON - Wednesday, 15. April 2026 AETOSWire
Scoot, the Singapore-based low-cost carrier, claimed the top spot in Cirium’s 2025 EmeraldSky Annual Review.
Qatar Airways, Ryanair, and Turkish Airlines recognized as most efficient global airlines when ranked by seat capacity.
Regional leaders include Frontier (Intra-North America), Wizz Air (Europe), Virgin Atlantic (Transatlantic), Air Canada (Transpacific), JetSmart (Latin America), and Vietjet (Asia).
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Singapore-based Scoot has been named the world’s most emissions-efficient airline in Cirium’s 2025 EmeraldSky Annual Review, taking the top position from last year’s leader, Wizz Air. Qatar Airways, Ryanair, and Turkish Airlines were each recognized as the top three most efficient global airlines, ranked by available seat kilometres (ASK).
Cirium’s industry leading ranking is based on CO₂ per available ASK across the world’s 100 largest airlines. The methodology is independently a
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Six years of ecosystem observation. A new lens for understanding and communicating additive manufacturing's real value.
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Following its 2026 Annual Member Summit, AMGTA today released Additive Manufacturing in Resource-Efficient Manufacturing Systems, an independent report establishing how additive manufacturing should be evaluated, communicated, and deployed across part, system, and enterprise levels.
The report establishes a structural argument for how additive manufacturing should be evaluated — not at the part level alone, but across part, system, and enterprise levels where AM's most significant advantages in resource efficiency, supply chain resilience, and capital allocation actually materialize. It draws on six years of sustained observation across both sides of the AM ecosystem — technology developers and manufacturing users — producing findings that neither side could reach from its own position. It is designed for use in investor presentations, policy d
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