Monday, April 10, 2017

DIAMOND REALTY MANAGEMENT VOTED AS "REAL ESTATE DEBT FUND MANAGER OF YEAR, ASIA-PACIFIC" IN PRIVATE DEBT INVESTOR AWARDS 2016

TOKYO, April 7 (Bernama-AsiaNet) -- Diamond Realty Management Inc. participated in the Private Debt Investor Awards 2016, and was voted as the Real Estate Debt Fund Manager of the Year, Asia-Pacific by readers.

This is the second time for Diamond Realty Management to win this award since 2013.
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NASDAQ SMARTS WINS THREE SELL-SIDE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS - FURTHER SOLIDIFYING LEADERSHIP IN SURVEILLANCE

SMARTS Surveillance named 'Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product,' 'Best Alliance or Partnership' and 'Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year'

NEW YORK, April 7 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ), the world's leading provider of market technology, was awarded three major awards in Waters Technology's 2017 Sell-Side Technology Awards. Nasdaq received the awards for its SMARTS Trade Surveillance technology, which enables customers to proactively address evolving compliance challenges, as well as for strategic alliance with cognitive computing leader, Digital Reasoning, to offer next generation surveillance technology.

Nasdaq was honored with three major awards:
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Saturday, April 8, 2017

​XM WINS AWARD AS BEST FOREX SERVICE PROVIDER 2017




LONDON, April 6 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XM Group (Trading Point Group), a leading Forex and CFD broker and the official trading partner of the Fastest Man in the World “Usain Bolt”, has been recognized as Best Forex Service Provider for 2017 during the City of London Wealth and Management Awards which were hosted on the 30th of March at The Guildhall in the City of London.

The City of London Wealth and Management Awards are hosted once a year and the winners of each category are determined by an online public vote.

During the event Stephen Pinner, MD of Goodacre UK the company managing the Awards said, “The Wealth Management sector is working hard to meet a wide range of challenges and it is very re-assuring to see the increasing interest from the investing public. In addition to ensuring that they meet a significant amount of new regulatory requirements, many firms strive to deliver services of the highest quality and these Awards acknowledge and reward the very best companies in the market.”

Notes for Editors

The purpose of the City of London Wealth and Management Awards is to recognize and promote quality of service from Wealth Management companies and individuals. Winners are determined by a public online vote which took place over a two-week period. The poll was reviewed by an independent panel of judges.

About XM Group 

XM the official trading partner of the Fastest Man in the World “Usain Bolt” is an award-winning Forex and CFD Broker serving over 1,00,000 clients.

XM is a brand name of Trading Point Holdings Ltd which wholly owns Trading Point of Financial Instruments UK Ltd (XM UK), Trading Point of Financial Instruments Pty Ltd (XM Australia) and Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd (XM Cyprus).

XM UK is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Reference number: 705428), XM Australia is licensed by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Reference number: 443670) and XM Cyprus is regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (Reference number: 120/10). 

Friday, April 7, 2017

RADWARE HELPS MAKE IT EASY TO MIGRATE FROM DATA CENTER TO MICROSOFT AZURE





MAHWAH, N.J., April 5 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radware® (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, announced that its Alteon NG Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Virtual Appliance (VA) is available on Microsoft Azure to enterprises that need to incorporate an application delivery solutions in their cloud deployment. It now comes with integrated migration tools that make cloud migration simple and easy to execute.

Radware's Alteon NG VA for Azure enables organizations to run applications across private and public cloud infrastructures, while improving overall quality of experience (QoE) for users accessing business applications through its load balancing and traffic management capabilities.

Radware’s Alteon VA provides outstanding agility, a superior footprint-to-performance ratio, and next-generation ADC functionality, which allows IT administrators to fully use their application deployment on Azure. Alteon NG VA for Azure supports the complex functional requirements of enterprise applications, from Layer 7 rewrites to SSL offloading to web application security.

Organizations can now move ADC services back and forth between their private data center and  the cloud in a few clicks. Using Radware’s vDirect automation suite, IT administrators can automate transition calls, regardless of where the ADC resides—their private data center, Azure, or another cloud solution—and easily transfer them back and forth from one environment to another.

“The integrated migration tool adds to the value of cloud based ADC,” said Daniel Lakier, vice president of ADC at Radware. “Alteon NG VA for Microsoft Azure supplements the enterprise application lifecycle, enabling organizations to grow and shrink their application infrastructure capacity on demand. Working under a pay-as-you-go structure helps organizations optimize their initial investment and their ongoing operational costs.”

In addition, Alteon NG VA for Azure monitors the application performance and user experience, enabling full control over application delivery service level assurances (SLAs) that cloud deployments provide. Its embedded web application firewall (WAF) and state-of-the-art application acceleration ensure that the application remains fast and secure on Azure.

“We’re pleased to make Radware’s Alteon NG Virtual Appliance available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to help customers improve performance for business applications,” said Andrea Carl, director, Commercial Communications at Microsoft Corp.  “The ability to easily transfer ADC services between datacenter and the cloud makes it easier than ever for organizations to outfit their cloud environment with solutions that meet their business needs.”

Radware’s solution maintains agility across private data centers and different cloud environments by combining functional parity across all of its ADC form factors together with automation tools. Through automation, organizations gain instant ADC service portability across environments and can simplify all ADC lifecycle management tasks down to the click of a button.

TRYB CAPITAL ANNOUNCES US$4M STRATEGIC INVESTMENT INTO CHINSAY AB, THE LEADING INDEPENDENT PLATFORM FOR COMMODITY AND FREIGHT CONTRACTS




Singapore-based investor tryb Capital invests to enhance Stockholm-based Chinsay’s risk and analytics platform and expand Asian presence via Singapore

Chinsay’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is a vital part in the ongoing digitisation of trade and trade finance which will connect traders, brokers, shipping companies, ports and financial institutions
 
SINGAPORE & STOCKHOLM, April 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Chinsay AB, the leading cloud based platform for end-to-end administration of global commodity and freight contracts, has secured strategic investment of US$4 million from tryb Capital, a Singapore-based growth stage technology investor. The investment will be used to fund the continued development of Chinsay’s next-generation product and expansion into Asian markets.

Chinsay’s platform offers a comprehensive suite of front-end tools and the opportunity to apply back-end APIs to enable clear productivity benefits to not only global traders, shipping companies and brokers but also ports, marketplaces and financial institutions involved in trade and trade finance. Chinsay sees a strong acceleration in growth in Asia alongside its major clients, which include the likes of ADM, Cargill, K Line, Noble Group, NYK, Rio Tinto, South32 and Unipec.

Magnus Böcker, Chairman and Co-Founder of tryb Capital stated, “Singapore’s position as a key shipping and trading hub made it more attractive for tryb Capital to invest into Chinsay. This is a great example of how innovative technologies from anywhere, in this case Sweden, can leverage Singapore as a growth platform into Asia.”

Dag Sundén-Cullberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chinsay commented: “Chinsay’s board and team see this as a great opportunity for the company to take in additional capital for the current expansion phase while staying fully independent and at the same time getting a strategically important shareholder with an active agenda in the technology industry. The tryb team’s experience and network within technology will benefit Chinsay greatly as we continue influencing and driving usage of new technology in the freight and commodities markets.”

tryb and Chinsay’s partnership is part of the growing interest in the digitisation of trade and trade finance and Singapore’s plans to become a leading Smart Financial Centre. Chinsay provides the opportunity to integrate into local trade ecosystems in Asia and optimise trading processes and workflows while providing enhanced big data analytics capabilities. 

HERBALIFE NUTRITION STUDY REVEALS ALARMING LACK OF NUTRITION, HYDRATION AND EXERCISE AMONG ADULTS

HONG KONG, April 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Herbalife, a global nutrition company, has released the findings from its Asia Pacific Balanced Nutrition Survey1, which focuses on shedding light on nutrition and health habits, behaviors and attitudes of consumers aged 18 and above. The survey is an element of the seventh Herbalife Asia Pacific Wellness Tour, seeking to inspire consumers to adopt balanced nutrition habits and reinforce its impact to long-term health and wellbeing. According to survey findings, 71 percent of consumers are eating less than half of the recommended serving of fruits and vegetables, more than half do not drink enough water, and more than half do not get enough exercise.

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While 55 percent of consumers believe that ensuring their body gets the sufficient nutrients to function optimally was the greatest motivator to adopting a balanced diet, modern, fast-paced lifestyles, make it increasingly challenging to incorporate healthy nutrition habits into daily lives.
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NRI AUTOMATES POST-TRADE OPERATIONS WITH NEW ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY

- Japan’s first utility service for investment banks to adopt UiPath technology -
NEW YORK, April 6 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI, TOKYO:4307) today announced NRI’s Prime Settlement Service (PSS), Japan’s first utility service for investment banks, will incorporate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate manual processes for post-trade operations starting April 2017. RPA will be applied to the payment record processing phase of post-trade operations, where the input and reconciliation of data are typically still performed manually. Without RPA, each data file must be received through email and manually uploaded to the back-office systems before being reconciled separately in the process. Overall, the entire process requires a significant amount of double-checking to prevent operational mistakes, and financial institutions have long sought measures to improve service quality.

Through the use of RPA, the process will be automated with no room for human mistakes. The implementation increases both the quality of the process as well as the volume of the transaction it can handle. “The automation of post-trade operations is one of most consistently in-demand upgrades that we receive from our customers,” said Michiko Matsubara, PSS Group Manager of NRI. “Investment banks are looking to create the most efficient environments possible, and freeing up their teams from grating and time-consuming tasks through innovative technology solutions is the first step towards upgrading a workforce. We’re excited to be working with our banking partners to implement such solutions.”

NRI will use the RPA technology provided by UiPath, a leading RPA solution provider based in the UK. UiPath’s automation product has a strong reputation among financial institutions in the US and Europe and is known for its high usability and agility.

This new RPA-enabled function will be available as an option for PSS users.

NRI is continuously exploring more ways to incorporate RPA and utilize new technologies to increase overall operational efficiency.

About UiPath

UiPath is a leading Robotic Process Automation vendor providing a complete software platform to help organizations to efficiently automate business processes. A software robot aims to manipulate the presentation layer of application software in the same manner a human does.

For more information, visit https://www.uipath.com/

About NRI

Founded in 1965, NRI is a leading global provider of system solutions and consulting services with annual sales above $3.7 billion.

NRI offers clients holistic support of all aspects of operations from back- to front-office, with NRI’s research expertise and innovative solutions as well as understanding of operational challenges faced by financial services firms. The clients include broker-dealers, asset managers, banks and insurance providers. NRI has 38 offices globally including New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, and over 10,000 employees.

For more information, visit http://fis.nri.co.jp/en
Contacts
Media Inquiries
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Suirei Ban / Yukako Seto, +81-3-5877-7100
Corporate Communications Department
kouhou@nri.co.jp
or
Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
Sayaka Takeda, +1 212-636-0539
sayaka.takeda@nria.com
Source: Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
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