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LONDON -Tuesday 3 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Thailand’s bespoke residence-by-investment offering, the Thailand Elite Residence Program, is celebrating a year of record-breaking growth, as applicant numbers for the highly sought-after program continue to swell.

After Henley & Partners was appointed exclusive global concessionaire for the program in April last year, registration numbers grew from an average of 300 per year to over 900 for the April–December 2017 period. This upward trend has continued in 2018, with 161 new residents on-boarded in March alone.

According to Dominic Volek, Managing Partner of Henley & Partners Singapore and Head of Southeast Asia, “interest in the program among Chinese nationals is picking up significantly, while citizens of the UK, Germany, Australia, the US, and Japan make up the bulk of the existing client base”.

Volek explains that Henley & Partners serves clients eit ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 3 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

Pearl Insulation Materials Industries LLC, is part of DRFCO Group of Companies formed in 1978. As one of the leading manufacturers of chemical resins for coating and polyurethane industries in the United Arab Emirates, Pearl Insulation Materials is contributing to the market with quality products and service.

Nitrogen in the chemical production

In many processes in the chemical industry, it is necessary to eliminate undesired reactions and keep moisture away from products. For this purpose, inert-gas blanking with nitrogen is normally used to hold down the level of oxygen and prevent oxygen and/or moisture from coming into contact with reactive or adsorptive products.

At the factory of Pearl Insulation Materials located in Dubai Investment Park, nitrogen is used for blanketing of reactors, to avoid oxidation in the process which causes discoloration of the end product. In the past, Pearl I ... Read more »

This Crowdfunding Campaign Uses Augmented Reality to Let You See Just How Striking the Product Will Look in Your Own Home

MIAMI -Thursday 28 June 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- After a record-breaking success on crowdfunding platforms with $8M raised in 2017 for a sister product, smart home brand Deconnect is about to hit Kickstarter again to launch Gloo – a sleek wireless charging station that doubles as an ambient light source. Underlining the Deconnect team’s commitment to designing stylish products, Gloo is the first crowdfunding project that enables you to preview exactly how different versions of the product will look in your own home, via a unique Augmented Reality feature within the companion Deconnect app.1

Unlike existing wireless charging stations, Gloo - available in two sizes, Mini and Regular and with five finishings - seamlessly blends into any number of spaces thanks to its sleek bottle-shape, cable-free design and pr ... Read more »

World First – Tokenized US Dollars and Bitcoin Held at Independent Custodian on OTCXN Blockchains Exchanged in Live Trades

SAN FRANCISCO-Thursday 28 June 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- OTC Exchange Network, Inc. ("OTCXN"), a blockchain-powered capital markets infrastructure company, today announced that it completed its first live test trades, which it believes to be the world’s first exchange of tokenized US Dollars and tokenized Bitcoin between two separate trading accounts over an electronic trading platform with assets held in safekeeping at a neutral custodian and digitized on blockchain.

Today, institutional traders conduct block trades of fiat currency and cryptocurrency over e-mail and chat, relying on the reputation and credibility of their counterparties to honor their part of the trades, often taking hours to confirm and settle. The OTCXN platform removes trading counterparty and settlement risk with an atomic exchange ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan-Monday 2 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

    Takeda holds the grand opening of Takeda Global Headquarters in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.
    With Takeda Global Headquarters as a base, and a symbol of the company’s values, Takeda will further accelerate its transition into a global, values-based R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader that brings better health and a brighter future to people worldwide.
    The “life force” of human beings forms the basis of Creative Director Kashiwa Sato's design concept;
        The refined modern Japanese design, employing kanji characters as a motif, produces a space that speaks of Takeda's unchanging values and of its future

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, (“Takeda”) (TOKYO:4502) today held the grand opening of Takeda Global Headquarters. The building, completed in March 2018, will serve as Takeda ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany & INDIANAPOLIS-Monday 2 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

European labels for Jardiance®, Synjardy® and Glyxambi® expanded to include positive effects on cardiovascular and renal endpoints from landmark EMPA-REG OUTCOME® trial1
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion to update the labels of Jardiance®(empagliflozin), Synjardy® (empagliflozin and metformin) and Glyxambi® (empagliflozin and linagliptin) to include additional important data from the landmark EMPA-REG OUTCOME® trial on heart failure and kidney endpoints.1,2,3,4

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The labels now include additional results from the EMPA-REG OUTCOME® trial, specifi ... Read more »

Business-to-Business Attendance Surges 14 Per Cent over 2017 Event; Nearly 8,800 Additional Consumer Attendees Participated at Migu Health and Fitness Festival

HONG KONG-Monday 2 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The GSMA today reported that more than 60,000 unique visitors1 from 112 countries and territories attended the 2018 GSMA Mobile World Congress Shanghai, held 27-29 June in Shanghai. The three-day event attracted executives from the largest and most influential organisations across the mobile ecosystem, as well from companies in a range of vertical industry sectors. In addition to this business-to-business audience, nearly 8,800 consumers from the greater Shanghai metropolitan area attended the Migu Health and Fitness Festival, which was held in the Mobile World Congress Shanghai halls at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC).

“We are extremely pleased with the results for the 2018 Mobile World Congress Shangh ... Read more »

 - Innovative Bank Utility Model Helps Secure the Future for 11 Danish Banks -

PARIS-Monday 2 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bankdata, an IT service provider to the Danish banking industry, has recently gone live with another stage of its transformation program. Bankdata recently migrated interest rate and cross-currency swaps from its legacy systems to Murex’s MX.3 platform, the leading solution for trading, risk management and processing for the capital markets.

Simplification of system landscape with Murex’s platform, MX.3

Bankdata is currently implementing MX.3 for Jyske Bank and Sydbank and will soon extend to the rest of the member banks. This gives the banks the benefit of economies of scale in terms of support and daily operations. One of the major advantages of the Murex platform is that it allows the two banks to improve operational efficiency by retiring several legacy systems and manual work processes an ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Sunday 1 July 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

National Advisor Bureau Limited announced the launch of the official UAE-Iceberg Project website: http://www.icebergs.world/ to highlight the most significant stages of the project, and its intended benefits in relation to the environment and the economy.

The Launch of the website coincides with the Year of Zayed, as the project aims to support the response to water calamities such as drought worldwide, and support other water projects aimed to promote the humanitarian work.

It is worth mentioning that the National Advisor Bureau Limited put forward the project of towing icebergs from Antarctica to the coasts of the UAE to leverage them as new sources of water in the region. The project was met with wide international media coverage, and commendations from different international competent bodies.

A scientific committee is now being set up consisting of scientists, experts, and speciali ... Read more »

SHANGHAI-Wednesday 27 June 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

SD Express integrates PCIe® and NVMe™ for up to 985 MB/sec transfer rate, while keeping compatibility with existing billions SD hosts in the market

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mobile World Congress Booth N2.C40 — The SD Association announced today SD Express which adds the popular PCI Express® and NVMe™ interfaces to the legacy SD interface. The PCIe interface delivering a 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) maximum data transfer rate and the NVMe upper layer protocol enables advanced memory access mechanism, enabling a new world of opportunities for the popular SD memory card. In addition, the maximum storage capacity in SD memory cards grows from 2TB with SDXC to 128 TB with the new SD Ultra Capacity (SDUC) card. These innovations maintain the SDA’s commitment to backward compatibility and are part of the new SD 7.0 specification.

 “SD Express’ use of popular PCIe and NVMe in ... Read more »