TOKYO, Feb 15, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu and EintrachtTech GmbH’s digital center “Arena of IoT” have partnered to increase sustainability in stadium management at Deutsche Bank Park as part of a joint project. EintrachtTech is the dedicated subsidiary of Eintracht Frankfurt responsible for all of Eintracht’s strategic digital projects. The digital […]
A picture shows a general view of the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Feb 3, 2023. Egypt has stepped up mediation between Israel and the Palestinians in a bid to tamp down violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank and to prevent […]
TOKYO & HO CHI MINH, Feb 6, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – JCB International Co. Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s only international payment brand, and Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank), a major commercial bank in Vietnam, announced the launch of VPBank JCB Credit Card in […]
TOKYO, Jan 26, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu) and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (Mizuho Bank) today announced a collaboration focused on the development of services for corporate customers to manage ESG and SDG related data including greenhouse gas emissions. Figure: Image of the joint project The joint effort will combine Mizuho […]
HONG KONG, Jan 17, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – On 16 January 2023, Fosun High Technology, the domestic operating entity of Fosun International Limited (“Fosun International”, HKEX: 00656), and eight domestic banks held a syndicated loan signing ceremony at the Bund Finance Center, Shanghai. According to the agreement, Industrial and Commercial Bank of […]
SINGAPORE, January 17, 2023 – (SEAPRWire) – Newly launched Filipino digital bank GoTyme Bank has partnered with global cloud banking platform Mambu to deliver an innovative digital banking solution that is aiming to improve access to high-quality financial services for Filipinos. Singapore-based Tyme Group, which has partnered with Gokongwei Group to launch GoTyme Bank in the Philippines, has had […]
Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as security forces operate, outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan 8, 2023. (ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS) BRASILIA — With a Brazil flag draped around his neck and his feet propped up on a dark wooden table, Samuel Faria […]
An atrium is seen at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, US, Oct 14, 2017. (YURI GRIPAS / REUTERS) WASHINGTON – The World Bank is seeking to vastly expand its lending capacity to address climate change and other global crises and will negotiate with shareholders ahead of April meetings on proposals that include a capital […]
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters on May 20, 2021 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestine on Sunday slammed the US move to pressure the United Nations not to update its list of companies operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied […]
TOKYO, Nov 29, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Pie Systems Japan Co., Ltd., a leading Travel Tech which provides the VAT refund solution PIE VAT and a subsidiary of Pie Systems Inc, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with JAPAN POST BANK Co., Ltd., a bank in the Japan Post Group which provides […]
A Ukrainian female soldier poses for a photo against a Kherson sign in the background, in Kherson, Ukraine, Nov 11, 2022. (DAGAZ / AP) MOSCOW/KYIV – Ukraine has taken control of the southern city of Kherson after Russia transferred all its armed forces to the left (eastern) bank of the Dnieper River on Friday. "In […]
A school security guard measures the temperature of the pupils at the entrance of Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – Uganda is grappling with double-digit inflation as spillover effects of the global economic decline filter through the domestic economy, the country's central bank, Bank of […]
A school security guard measures the temperature of the pupils at the entrance of Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA – Uganda is grappling with double-digit inflation as spillover effects of the global economic decline filter through the domestic economy, the country's central bank, Bank of […]
HONG KONG, Sep 21, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The second industry forum (the “Forum”) under the SME ESG Best Practices Recognition Programme (“the Programme”) took place today under the joint auspices of Dah Sing Bank, Limited (“Dah Sing Bank”) and Friends of the Earth (HK) (“FoE HK”). It gathered business and industry […]
A combine harvesting picks up the wheat on a field near the Krasne village, in the Chernihiv area, 120 km to the north from Kyiv, on July 5, 2019. (ANATOLII STEPANOV / FAO / AFP) SARAJEVO – The World Bank is willing to provide up to US$30 billion to combat global food shortages aggravated by […]
HONG KONG, Aug 26, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Bank of Qingdao Co., Ltd. (“Bank of Qingdao” or the “Bank”), the largest City Commercial Bank in Shandong Province, China, announced its interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2022 (the “Reporting Period”). In the first half of 2022, problems such as […]
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire set by demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Aug 22, 2022. (ODELYN JOSEPH / AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) poses with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before a meeting at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 19, 2021, on the sidelines of the Arctic Council Ministerial summit. (SAUL LOEB / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) MOSCOW/ UNITED NATIONS / KYIV – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei […]
SINGAPORE, Jul 27, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – SESAMi has successfully launched a collaboration with its 5 banking partners including OCBC, CIMB and Linklogis to enable suppliers using its platform to get paid immediately on their outstanding invoices and purchase orders. Simplified Onboarding SESAMi will be reaching out to the supplier community to […]
A man counts a wad of the new Zimbabwean ten-dollar notes received from an ATM outside a bank in Harare on May 20, 2020. (JEKESAI NJIKIZANA / AFP) HARARE – Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened […]