HANGZHOU, China, Apr. 29, 2019 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--
The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou is known as China's "Love Capital", where many fascinating oriental stories have occurred, such as the story of "Liang Zhu", which has been regarded as "the Oriental Romeo and Juliet". Meanwhile, Hangzhou has the most developed internet and digital economy industries in China. Encouraged by the rich cultural cultivations and story elements, coupled with the most avant-garde digital technologies, a large number of young artists and technology entrepreneurs have made Hangzhou into a "capital of cartoon & animation" with its unique style. As a result of the development of cartoon and animation, this famous oriental city has demonstrated its urban vitality with more diversity.
Staring from 2005, Hangzhou holds an annual city-wide party in the name of "cartoon & animation" every May. Over the past 14 years, a total of 16.2 million people around the world have participated in the event. As scheduled, from April 30 through May 5 this year, the 15th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival will be held in Hangzhou. Disney, Sony Entertainment from the US, Webtoon, South Korea's largest comics platform, and cartoon and animation companies, organizations and guests from 86 countries and regions around the world are coming to Hangzhou to participate in the event, which is, for now, the only national professional cartoon and animation exhibition in China, as well as the largest, most popular and influential cartoon and animation festival in the world.
The encounter between Hangzhou and cartoon & animation is no accident.
"The White Snake Enchantress", the first long colorful animation movie in the history of Japanese Cinema, was released in 1958. It came in pairs that 60 years later a team of Chinese filmmakers launched the original animation movie "White Snake", both of which were based on the legend known to everyone in China. With its setting in Hangzhou, most of the scenes and landmarks in the story have been existing in local people's lives for thousands of years.
As an encounter across more than half a century, both of the movies have harvested unanimous praise in different times through aesthetic expressions of oriental elements and sophisticated productions. This ancient oriental love story has been given a new life by the animations of different times, telling the world about the beauty and charm of the Chinese version of "the Little Mermaid" that took place in Hangzhou.
In recent years, the cartoon and animation industry is considered as one of the most promising emerging industries in China.
In 2005, Hangzhou held the first China International Cartoon & Animation Festival and has kept Hangzhou as the permanent venue for the only national professional cartoon and animation exhibition of China ever since, turning on the "Hangzhou model" for China's cartoon and animation industry. Over more than 10 years, with a series of supporting policies for the cartoon and animation industry, Hangzhou have attracted many excellent domestic and foreign cartoon and animation companies and creators to operate in the city. Thereby, Chinese cartoonists and animators have taken on the mission to create Chinese cartoon and animation stories and brands.
Liu Jian, a Chinese cartoonist, came to fame at the 2018 Academy Awards, where he was selected to be one of the Oscar judges as a Chinese animation director.
"In my point of view, good movies must be creative and must express a good worldview with good stories." Last December, Liu Jian's team with teachers and students created the animation work "Liangzhu", telling about the origin and evolution of Liangzhu culture with elements from 5,000 years of Liangzhu civilization, such as dams, walls, jade and Taotie designs.
Obviously, the creators, bred in this ancient cultural city, have been committed to demonstrating deep cultural genes with cartoons and animations and depicting oriental aesthetics. With the rise of China's cartoon and animation market, many filmmakers from overseas are seeking to cooperate with China, exploring Chinese culture, seizing the opportunities to tell Chinese stories.
Mark Handler, the managing director of Disney, China, shared the creation experience of Disney China's new movie "Stitch & Ai" (An Ling and Stitch) at 2017 China International Cartoon & Animation Festival. Instead of focusing on the beautiful scenery of Huangshan, the crew went deep into the countryside to seek for Chinese stories. The movie included many Chinese cultural symbols, such as Huangshan, Xidi and Hongcun in the southern Anhui Province.
Animation is the language in which cultures go to the world. Many years ago, Xia Yan, a forerunner in the Chinese movie industry said, "The first movies of PRC that went global in the real sense were cartoons." Having been building China's "capital of cartoon & animation" for 15 years, Hangzhou is sending the voice of China to the world and telling fascinating oriental stories in the form of cartoon and animation.
Source: The Office of China International Cartoon & Animation Festival
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
BENCHMARK MINERAL INTELLIGENCE HIRES TESLA EXECUTIVE AS IT CONTINUES EXPANSION OF ITS EV SUPPLY CHAIN ADVISORY TEAM
Vivas Kumar joins Benchmark Mineral Intelligence as Principal Consultant in Benchmark's Forecast & Consultancy Division
London, April 26 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark Minerals) is delighted to announce that Vivas Kumar has been appointed Principal Consultant. Vivas joins from Tesla, one of the world’s foremost electric vehicle (EV) and lithium ion battery producers.
Vivas was responsible for building Tesla’s lithium ion battery supply chain from May 2017 to April 2019, where he sourced a multi-billion dollar yearly spend portfolio of battery metals and chemicals, as the Gigafactory 1 scaled to become the world’s biggest battery plant and the Model 3 launched.
He has rapidly become a pioneer in our industry as the auto sector enters uncharted EV waters, fuelling unprecedented battery demand.
At Benchmark Minerals, Vivas will join our Forecast & Consultancy Division as we ramp up our advisory services for the world’s lithium ion battery supply chain, from mine to EV.
Vivas Kumar, Benchmark Minerals’ new Principal Consultant, said:
“I am honoured to join the Benchmark Minerals team to grow their consulting services business.
“During my previous experiences at McKinsey and Tesla, I consistently relied on Benchmark Minerals for their objective knowledge and unique insights on the rapidly transforming battery supply chain.
“In the global shift to more environmentally sustainable technologies, the battery industry remains vastly under-invested. I look forward to arming this supply chain with the world’s leading lithium price assessments, data and analysis as we enter a new phase of the energy storage revolution.”
Andy Leyland, Head of Benchmark Minerals’ Forecasts & Consultancy Division, said:
“All automotive OEMs are on a journey to electrification following a path pioneered by Tesla.
“Having Vivas onboard will allow us to continue to deliver world class advisory services to help develop new supply chains and opportunities for the automotive, mining, energy, oil and financial industries.
“Benchmark Minerals also continues to provide government advisory as highlighted by repeat testimonies to the US Senate in 2017 and 2019.
“Vivas will play a key role in ensuring our price assessments, forecast data and advisory services continue to shape international energy, industrial and business policies for the 21st century.”
Simon Moores, Managing Director, said:
“Vivas takes our capabilities to a new level after negotiating some of the most influential raw material contracts our industry has ever seen.
“In 2014, we went all-in by launching Benchmark Minerals to build the world’s premier publisher for the lithium ion battery to EV supply chain. The focus was to produce the most trustworthy and accurate price assessments, analysis and forecasting for lithium, cobalt, graphite anode, cathodes, and battery cells.
“We are now entering the most disruptive and rapid change the auto industry has ever witnessed. Today, our new team members from Tesla and SQM renew our mission as we double down on our number one position in the global price assessment, research and advisory sector.
“I am truly excited about having Vivas join us. Our two new team members take Benchmark Minerals into a new stage of our evolution.”
Hear Vivas speak on Benchmark World Tour 2019 - 2 weeks away
Vivas will be speaking on the North American leg of Benchmark Minerals' World Tour 2019. The Benchmark World Tour will be visiting New York (Monday 6 May), Toronto (Wednesday 8 May), Chicago (Friday 10 May), San Francisco (Monday 13 May), and Vancouver (Wednesday 15 May).
ABOUT BENCHMARK MINERALS
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark Minerals) is the world’s leading voice and most trusted provider of data and advisory services in the lithium ion battery and electric vehicle (EV) supply chain.
Benchmark Minerals is globally known for setting the lithium industry’s reference price which is relied upon to negotiate contracts between actors in the industry, including lithium extraction operators, cathode manufacturers, battery cell producers and automotive OEMs. The Company also produces regular price assessments on cobalt chemicals and graphite and also tracks lithium ion megafactory capacity build out.
Benchmark Minerals also provides Forecasting & Consultancy services that are relied upon by a wide range of customers, from governments, electronics manufacturers, EV makers, battery cell producers, and mining companies. Premium Quarterly Forecast reports are provided for the lithium, cobalt and graphite industries, including cost curves and a fully linked supply and demand model allowing easy scenario analysis.
Our single-client advisory services provide actionable and implementable recommendations in the form of supply chain workshops, lenders market reports and input to feasibility studies.
To complement its publishing activities, Benchmark Minerals has created the industry’s leading platform to discuss the subject – The Benchmark World Tour. Starting in 2015, the annual series offers free investment and industry seminars, and has grown to 17 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
Benchmark Minerals also hosts an industry gathering for the lithium ion supply chain in Q4 of each year. Benchmark Minerals Week consists of two main conferences, Graphite & Anodes and Cathodes, and is the world’s meeting place to negotiate deals and network.
Benchmark Minerals’ data, insight, and understanding of the subject is unrivalled, as witnessed by repeat testimony to the US Senate in 2017 and 2019. In addition, Benchmark Minerals has been invited to give guest lectures at the University of Oxford, Stanford University, the Royal Institution, and advised the UK Government.
The EV and battery supply chain is Benchmark Minerals’ sole focus and speciality.
www.benchmarkminerals.com
info@benchmarkminerals.com
Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Limited
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London, April 26 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark Minerals) is delighted to announce that Vivas Kumar has been appointed Principal Consultant. Vivas joins from Tesla, one of the world’s foremost electric vehicle (EV) and lithium ion battery producers.
Vivas was responsible for building Tesla’s lithium ion battery supply chain from May 2017 to April 2019, where he sourced a multi-billion dollar yearly spend portfolio of battery metals and chemicals, as the Gigafactory 1 scaled to become the world’s biggest battery plant and the Model 3 launched.
He has rapidly become a pioneer in our industry as the auto sector enters uncharted EV waters, fuelling unprecedented battery demand.
At Benchmark Minerals, Vivas will join our Forecast & Consultancy Division as we ramp up our advisory services for the world’s lithium ion battery supply chain, from mine to EV.
Vivas Kumar, Benchmark Minerals’ new Principal Consultant, said:
“I am honoured to join the Benchmark Minerals team to grow their consulting services business.
“During my previous experiences at McKinsey and Tesla, I consistently relied on Benchmark Minerals for their objective knowledge and unique insights on the rapidly transforming battery supply chain.
“In the global shift to more environmentally sustainable technologies, the battery industry remains vastly under-invested. I look forward to arming this supply chain with the world’s leading lithium price assessments, data and analysis as we enter a new phase of the energy storage revolution.”
Andy Leyland, Head of Benchmark Minerals’ Forecasts & Consultancy Division, said:
“All automotive OEMs are on a journey to electrification following a path pioneered by Tesla.
“Having Vivas onboard will allow us to continue to deliver world class advisory services to help develop new supply chains and opportunities for the automotive, mining, energy, oil and financial industries.
“Benchmark Minerals also continues to provide government advisory as highlighted by repeat testimonies to the US Senate in 2017 and 2019.
“Vivas will play a key role in ensuring our price assessments, forecast data and advisory services continue to shape international energy, industrial and business policies for the 21st century.”
Simon Moores, Managing Director, said:
“Vivas takes our capabilities to a new level after negotiating some of the most influential raw material contracts our industry has ever seen.
“In 2014, we went all-in by launching Benchmark Minerals to build the world’s premier publisher for the lithium ion battery to EV supply chain. The focus was to produce the most trustworthy and accurate price assessments, analysis and forecasting for lithium, cobalt, graphite anode, cathodes, and battery cells.
“We are now entering the most disruptive and rapid change the auto industry has ever witnessed. Today, our new team members from Tesla and SQM renew our mission as we double down on our number one position in the global price assessment, research and advisory sector.
“I am truly excited about having Vivas join us. Our two new team members take Benchmark Minerals into a new stage of our evolution.”
Hear Vivas speak on Benchmark World Tour 2019 - 2 weeks away
Vivas will be speaking on the North American leg of Benchmark Minerals' World Tour 2019. The Benchmark World Tour will be visiting New York (Monday 6 May), Toronto (Wednesday 8 May), Chicago (Friday 10 May), San Francisco (Monday 13 May), and Vancouver (Wednesday 15 May).
ABOUT BENCHMARK MINERALS
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark Minerals) is the world’s leading voice and most trusted provider of data and advisory services in the lithium ion battery and electric vehicle (EV) supply chain.
Benchmark Minerals is globally known for setting the lithium industry’s reference price which is relied upon to negotiate contracts between actors in the industry, including lithium extraction operators, cathode manufacturers, battery cell producers and automotive OEMs. The Company also produces regular price assessments on cobalt chemicals and graphite and also tracks lithium ion megafactory capacity build out.
Benchmark Minerals also provides Forecasting & Consultancy services that are relied upon by a wide range of customers, from governments, electronics manufacturers, EV makers, battery cell producers, and mining companies. Premium Quarterly Forecast reports are provided for the lithium, cobalt and graphite industries, including cost curves and a fully linked supply and demand model allowing easy scenario analysis.
Our single-client advisory services provide actionable and implementable recommendations in the form of supply chain workshops, lenders market reports and input to feasibility studies.
To complement its publishing activities, Benchmark Minerals has created the industry’s leading platform to discuss the subject – The Benchmark World Tour. Starting in 2015, the annual series offers free investment and industry seminars, and has grown to 17 cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
Benchmark Minerals also hosts an industry gathering for the lithium ion supply chain in Q4 of each year. Benchmark Minerals Week consists of two main conferences, Graphite & Anodes and Cathodes, and is the world’s meeting place to negotiate deals and network.
Benchmark Minerals’ data, insight, and understanding of the subject is unrivalled, as witnessed by repeat testimony to the US Senate in 2017 and 2019. In addition, Benchmark Minerals has been invited to give guest lectures at the University of Oxford, Stanford University, the Royal Institution, and advised the UK Government.
The EV and battery supply chain is Benchmark Minerals’ sole focus and speciality.
www.benchmarkminerals.com
info@benchmarkminerals.com
Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Limited
--BERNAMA
BGRS ACQUIRED BY RELO GROUP, INC.
CHICAGO and TOKYO, April 26 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Relo Group, Inc. (“Relo Group”) and BGRS (“BGRS” or the “Company”) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an affiliate of Relo Group will acquire BGRS, a leading global talent mobility management firm from Brookfield Business Partners.
Leading the global mobility industry with innovative outsourcing and fully integrated solutions, BGRS provides a full spectrum of talent mobility and advisory services to Global Fortune 500 companies. Supported by a team of over 1,300 globally, BGRS manages over 60,000 employee relocations annually with locations throughout Asia, the Americas and EMEA. BGRS Chief Executive Officer, Traci Morris, and the management team will remain in place and work with Relo Group to advance the Company into its next phase.
“BGRS has developed into a world class talent mobility management firm by always putting the interests of our clients first, constantly innovating and searching for new opportunities to create value for all stakeholders, and implementing sustainable operating practices. We are excited to become part of Relo Group’s portfolio of companies to continue to build BGRS,” said Morris.
Relo Group, based in Tokyo, Japan, has a 30+ year history of offering premier relocation services to support the global expansion of Japanese companies. Relo Group also provides comprehensive fringe benefit programs, ranging from housing to leisure and lifestyle improvement. BGRS is the fourth investment in North America for Relo Group and will expand its global network and service offerings.
“BGRS represents a significant expansion of Relo Group’s global mobility management capabilities and represents a significant strategic move toward achieving our vision of becoming a world-class relocation company,” commented Yasuji Shimizu, Director, Global Business Development. “Our two firms already partner together. This complementary transaction to combine our capabilities increases our collective global footprint and ability to provide leading relocation capabilities to clients around the world.”
Advisors
CIBC Capital Markets and BFIN Securities LP are acting as financial advisors to Brookfield Business Partners and Robert W. Baird & Co. is acting as financial advisor to Relo Group.
About BGRS
BGRS develops and implements comprehensive talent mobility solutions for corporate and government clients worldwide. By combining deep industry experience and unparalleled insights on the future of talent mobility, we enable our clients to design mobility programs that empower them to attract, retain and develop top performers. With more than 1,300 people across six continents, we blend global perspective with local market strength.
About Relo Group
Provider of leased corporate housing solutions, corporate fringe benefits and a wide range of outsourcing services supporting client companies and their employees. Relo Group’s mission is to support the global expansion of companies by supporting their non-core operations and allowing their client companies to perform to their full potential.
BGRS
John Arcario
SVP, Global Strategy | CMO | Talent Solutions
Tel: +1 475 323 7004
Email: john.arcario@bgrs.com
Relo Group, Inc.
Leading the global mobility industry with innovative outsourcing and fully integrated solutions, BGRS provides a full spectrum of talent mobility and advisory services to Global Fortune 500 companies. Supported by a team of over 1,300 globally, BGRS manages over 60,000 employee relocations annually with locations throughout Asia, the Americas and EMEA. BGRS Chief Executive Officer, Traci Morris, and the management team will remain in place and work with Relo Group to advance the Company into its next phase.
“BGRS has developed into a world class talent mobility management firm by always putting the interests of our clients first, constantly innovating and searching for new opportunities to create value for all stakeholders, and implementing sustainable operating practices. We are excited to become part of Relo Group’s portfolio of companies to continue to build BGRS,” said Morris.
Relo Group, based in Tokyo, Japan, has a 30+ year history of offering premier relocation services to support the global expansion of Japanese companies. Relo Group also provides comprehensive fringe benefit programs, ranging from housing to leisure and lifestyle improvement. BGRS is the fourth investment in North America for Relo Group and will expand its global network and service offerings.
“BGRS represents a significant expansion of Relo Group’s global mobility management capabilities and represents a significant strategic move toward achieving our vision of becoming a world-class relocation company,” commented Yasuji Shimizu, Director, Global Business Development. “Our two firms already partner together. This complementary transaction to combine our capabilities increases our collective global footprint and ability to provide leading relocation capabilities to clients around the world.”
Advisors
CIBC Capital Markets and BFIN Securities LP are acting as financial advisors to Brookfield Business Partners and Robert W. Baird & Co. is acting as financial advisor to Relo Group.
About BGRS
BGRS develops and implements comprehensive talent mobility solutions for corporate and government clients worldwide. By combining deep industry experience and unparalleled insights on the future of talent mobility, we enable our clients to design mobility programs that empower them to attract, retain and develop top performers. With more than 1,300 people across six continents, we blend global perspective with local market strength.
About Relo Group
Provider of leased corporate housing solutions, corporate fringe benefits and a wide range of outsourcing services supporting client companies and their employees. Relo Group’s mission is to support the global expansion of companies by supporting their non-core operations and allowing their client companies to perform to their full potential.
BGRS
John Arcario
SVP, Global Strategy | CMO | Talent Solutions
Tel: +1 475 323 7004
Email: john.arcario@bgrs.com
Relo Group, Inc.
Ayumu Kuniya
General Manager,
Corporate Planning Department
Tel: +81-3-5312-8704
Email: a.kuniya@relo.jp
Source: BGRS
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General Manager,
Corporate Planning Department
Tel: +81-3-5312-8704
Email: a.kuniya@relo.jp
Source: BGRS
--BERNAMA
Monday, April 29, 2019
Procter & Gamble aims to increase positive impact on society, environment via ´Brand 2030´
KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 (Bernama) -- The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has detailed the roadmap and actions of its leadership brands to increase positive impact on society and the environment via ‘Brand 2030’ criteria.
Senior company officials recently presented a forward-looking framework, including innovation strategies to inspire and enable responsible consumption for the five billion consumers served by P&G daily.
P&G leading brands including Pampers®, Ariel® and Herbal Essences® are progressing in adopting this framework with actions and commitments that will help accelerate sustainable lifestyles.
The Brand 2030 criteria is spread over two areas, namely, Brand Ambition and Brand Fundamentals which each outlining concrete actions brands can take to become a ‘force for good and force for growth’.
Brand Ambition is where brands place strategic social or environmental commitments at the heart of their consumer experience, helping to address a societal challenge where they can uniquely and meaningfully contribute.
On the other hand, Brand Fundamentals is where brands innovate across product and packaging, leverage their voice to promote social and environmental sustainability and are transparent about their ingredients and safety science while reducing their supply chain impacts.
“Consumers are no longer willing to compromise performance for living sustainably and they expect brands to take meaningful action in solving some of the most complex challenges facing the world,” said P&G chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard.
“This is why P&G is focused on re-inventing marketing to use the reach and voice of our brands as a force for good and a force for growth. We want our brands to be growing and creating value while having a measurable, long-term, positive impact on society and the environment.”
-- BERNAMA
Senior company officials recently presented a forward-looking framework, including innovation strategies to inspire and enable responsible consumption for the five billion consumers served by P&G daily.
P&G leading brands including Pampers®, Ariel® and Herbal Essences® are progressing in adopting this framework with actions and commitments that will help accelerate sustainable lifestyles.
The Brand 2030 criteria is spread over two areas, namely, Brand Ambition and Brand Fundamentals which each outlining concrete actions brands can take to become a ‘force for good and force for growth’.
Brand Ambition is where brands place strategic social or environmental commitments at the heart of their consumer experience, helping to address a societal challenge where they can uniquely and meaningfully contribute.
On the other hand, Brand Fundamentals is where brands innovate across product and packaging, leverage their voice to promote social and environmental sustainability and are transparent about their ingredients and safety science while reducing their supply chain impacts.
“Consumers are no longer willing to compromise performance for living sustainably and they expect brands to take meaningful action in solving some of the most complex challenges facing the world,” said P&G chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard.
“This is why P&G is focused on re-inventing marketing to use the reach and voice of our brands as a force for good and a force for growth. We want our brands to be growing and creating value while having a measurable, long-term, positive impact on society and the environment.”
-- BERNAMA
AWS LAUNCHES NEW REGION IN HONG KONG
New AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region expands cloud pioneer’s global footprint and enables customers to run applications and store their content in data centers in Hong Kong while connecting to global AWS network
Hong Kong SAR government welcomes the launch as an economic development milestone, citing the demand for large-scale cloud technology infrastructure
Thousands of customers and APN Partners across Hong Kong welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, including 9GAG, Bowtie, Cathay Pacific, Comba Telecom, FinFabrik, Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, Gogo Tech, HSBC, Hong Kong Disneyland, KPMG China, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, New World Development, Next Digital, RADICA, Royale International Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), Union Medical Healthcare, and many more.
SEATTLE, April 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-users across Hong Kong with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest suite of cloud services to drive innovation. Customers can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/hongkong/
“Hong Kong is globally recognized as a leading financial tech hub and one of the top places where startups build their businesses, so we’ve had many customers asking us for an AWS Region in Hong Kong so they can build their businesses on the world’s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest feature set,” said Peter DeSantis, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. “The dynamic business environment that exists in Hong Kong – among startups, enterprises, and government organizations – is pushing them to be one of the foremost digital areas in Asia. By providing an AWS Region in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we hope this enables more customers to be more agile, innovate, and transform their end-users’ experience for decades to come.”
“We are delighted to see the official launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, and it comes at a time when we are embracing digital transformation and developing into an international innovation and technology hub,” said Nicholas W Yang, JP, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. “Data has become a new currency of the digital economy and a new fuel for innovation. This infrastructure region is an integral component to foster technology advancements, allowing for greater innovation and further facilitating our digital transformation. The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region also enhances our leading position as a data hub and puts Hong Kong in a strong position to lead the next wave of innovation in data-related technologies.”
The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region offers three Availability Zones at launch. AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which are technology infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. With the scale of three Availability Zones, the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will enable organizations to provide lower latency to end users in Hong Kong, and across Asia Pacific. Additionally, local AWS customers with data residency requirements can now store their content in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the assurance that their content will not move without consent, while customers building applications now have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection.
Customers and APN Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Millions of active customers are using AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world, including hundreds of thousands of customers in Asia Pacific, and thousands of customers in Hong Kong. Organizations across Hong Kong are moving their mission-critical workloads to AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed-up time-to-market, including enterprise customers such as Asia Miles, Cathay Pacific, Chinachem Group, Comba Telecom, Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, HK01, HSBC, Hong Kong Disneyland, Kerry Logistics, KeptMe, KPMG China, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, New World Development, Next Digital, Ocean Park, Royale International Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Towngas, Turner, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Union Medical Healthcare. AWS is also an enabler for Hong Kong’s most successful startups such as 8 Securities, 9GAG, AfterShip, Bowtie, FinFabrik, GreenTomato, GRANA, Gogo Tech, Haymarket, Kopi, Lalamove, Madhead, polljoy, PIXELS, Prenetics, SHOPLINE, Vyond, WeLend, WiZ Connected, and many more.
Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong-based international airline, has been using AWS since 2016, helping the airline deliver customer-centric products and services responsively, delivering a high level of performance and reliability for Cathay Pacific’s website and booking engine infrastructure. “AWS helped us re-architect and modernize our technology stacks into a cloud native design, reducing the software development duration time by 67 percent and infrastructure costs by 50 percent. This allowed us to improve our efficiency and time-to-market significantly,” said Lawrence Fong, General Manager, IT Solutions, and Information Technology of Cathay Pacific. “AWS’s impressive and leading suite of services has opened up a world of possibilities to our IT team, putting the foremost technology at our fingertips so we can test new concepts, and deliver innovative ideas quickly to our end-users. One such idea-to-implementation is to enable blockchain technology for Asia Miles, which will provide Asia Miles partners a single data source when managing account activity with a near real-time ability to manage rewards. Bringing a new AWS Region to Hong Kong reduces latency for our engineering team, helping them experiment faster and bring new tools to our travelers, ultimately resulting in a better customer experience.”
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), broadcasting in Hong Kong since 1967, is the first wireless commercial TV station in Hong Kong. As Hong Kong’s largest broadcaster, TVB provides around-the-clock entertainment and news to more than seven million Hong Kong viewers, and operates an international licensing and distribution business accessible in more than 200 countries and regions. “During the year, our terrestrial TV channels continue to capture robust viewership and report an average audience share of 82 percent against all TV channels, both free and pay, during weekday prime time,” said SK Cheong, TVB Executive Director and General Manager. “We have transformed from a traditional TV station to a complete spectrum of media platforms spanning terrestrial TV, over-the-top (OTT) service, and social media, and AWS helps us handle traffic spikes, uplift service availability, and boost productivity of our digital media business during this journey. By leveraging the vast amount of features that AWS offers, we have been able to build a new content marketing and e-commerce business model in our online video platform, Big Big Channel, and take a leading role in transforming standard television to a full digitalized and interactive experience. With the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will further strengthen our technology platform, lower latency to online viewers, and continue toward our goal to expand our digital business to a global scale.”
New World Development (NWD) is one of Hong Kong’s largest corporations focused on property development, infrastructure, and services. New World Development develops and invests in properties in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, mainland China, and Southeast Asia, and its portfolio includes development and investment in about 24 million square feet of Hong Kong residential and commercial property; investments in 17 hotels; and an additional 4.5 million square feet of land planned for development. “By running on AWS, we have reduced our time-to-market by 30 percent, and improved service availability by up to 50 percent, all while saving 60 percent on our overall infrastructure cost compared to running on-premises data centers,” said Jason Lui, Assistant General Manager, Technology and Digital Services, New World Development. “NWD uses services like Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Cloudfront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Workdocs, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IAM, AWS WAF, and AWS Certificate Manager. Now, with the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we can leverage more of AWS’s services at near instantaneous speed, which only furthers our technology journey.”
Swire Coca-Cola is one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world with the exclusive rights to manufacture, market and distribute products from The Coca-Cola Company in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, 11 provinces and the Shanghai Municipality in mainland China, as well as an extensive area of the western United States. “We started our cloud journey with AWS in 2018, with a belief that going all-in on cloud would accelerate innovation, and speed-up time-to-market, which ultimately will boost our business growth,” said Calvin Ho, Group Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Service & IT Operations. “We are planning to retire our existing data centers, saving us money on infrastructure costs, while increasing our operational agility with the security and reliability that AWS provides. We look forward to extending our partnership with AWS in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, while modernizing our digital applications so we can provide a better experience to our customers in Hong Kong, and across Greater China.”
Bowtie, an Insurtech firm, was granted Hong Kong’s first virtual insurance company license in 2018. Virtual insurers need to meet the same standards that regulators require of traditional insurers, and Bowtie has used AWS’s technology to attract both a younger generation, and modern users for a convenient experience as a website and a mobile app. “As a truly ‘made in Hong Kong’ insurance brand, Bowtie is here to reinvent insurance,” said Michael Chan, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Bowtie. “Bowtie runs its core system platform, including policy administration, claims and underwriting applications on AWS. Building on top of AWS has allowed us to ensure our company operates in a highly secure and available space as required of insurance companies operating in a highly regulated environment. AWS has more security certifications than any other cloud provider, bringing our customers, and us, a peace of mind that couldn’t be achieved with another cloud platform. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will also be able to meet any requirements to keep our workloads on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region soil.”
WeLab, a leading Fintech company in Asia, is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless mobile experiences with proprietary risk management technology and artificial intelligence capabilities, operating in both B2C and B2B segments. The startup has recently been granted a virtual banking license by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, becoming the first home-grown Hong Kong Fintech company to establish a virtual bank. In Hong Kong, consumer financing solutions are offered to retail customers under the brand WeLend. “We leverage the technology breadth and stability of AWS to run our business, for example, using AWS to analyze unstructured mobile big data to make credit decisions for individual borrowers in seconds,” said Eddie Tse, Head of IT, WeLend. “The simplicity and commoditization of technologies that AWS delivers enables us to be more agile and reserve more time to solve real business problems rather than common platform challenges. The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will further help us use more of AWS’s leading cloud services, and move workloads that require low latency or data residency requirements to execute in the cloud.”
AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. The APN includes tens of thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI) around the world. APN Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. SI Consulting Partners supporting enterprise and public sector customers in Hong Kong to migrate to AWS include Accenture, Capgemini, China Mobile International, Cloudaxis, CloudConnect, DXC Technology, eCloudValley, GrandTech Cloud Services, ICG, Infosys, Masterson Technology, Nextlink Technology, Rackspace, Telstra, GrowthOps, WTT HK, and many others. APN ISVs in Hong Kong including Deskvault, Multiable, NanoMatriX, RADICA, Torstone Technology, and many others, are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and will serve their Hong Kong customers from the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy, and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/.
Accenture, a longtime APN Consulting Partner, is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. With 477,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. “With nearly 15 years of collaboration with AWS, Accenture has engineered solutions for tens of thousands of applications on AWS and employs more than 5,000 cloud professionals trained and certified on AWS which are helping accelerate innovation for clients globally,” said Peter Yen, managing director and intelligent engineering services lead at Accenture Greater China. “The Accenture Amazon Business Group (AABG) also holds 13 AWS awarded competencies in SAP, security, mobile, IOT, big data, and machine learning, among others. Accenture is committed to helping local clients compete at a global level by joining AWS in their Hong Kong launch and expanding our own dedicated AABG team in Hong Kong. With impressive results for clients, such as Cathay Pacific, Accenture is now more ready than ever to help Hong Kong clients every day across every industry.”
Jointly engineered by VMware and AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand hybrid cloud service that is delivered, sold, and supported by VMware and its partners. VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to run applications across a consistent VMware vSphere-based hybrid cloud environment, with optimized access to a broad range of AWS services. “Customers across Asia Pacific and in all industries power their digital businesses using both AWS and VMware,” said Duncan Hewett, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific and Japan at VMware. “Many want to integrate their on-premises data centers with AWS to create a consistent hybrid cloud environment. VMware Cloud on AWS delivers on this promise and we look forward to extending the coverage to the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) in 2019. We look forward to empowering customers to quickly and confidently scale up or down capacity, without change or friction, and accelerate their cloud migrations.”
RADICA provides digital marketing solutions to around 300 businesses, working with customers across Asia to help clients boost the value of their customer data and customer relationship management (CRM) systems for email, mobile, and social media messaging campaigns. The Hong Kong-headquartered company offers a proprietary e-communication integration platform which automates campaign activity and sends out as many as three million marketing messages a day. “To maximize agility, we have migrated the e-communication platform to AWS, reshaping and strengthening our IT infrastructure,” said Wallis Chan, Managing Director of RADICA. “We have been able to enhance our services significantly and can launch multi-channel campaigns for new clients around 80 percent faster. Previously, customers may have had to wait up to three months to deploy this platform for digital campaigns. RADICA uses multiple Amazon EC2 instance types including M4, C4, R3, and l2, which provides speedy SSD-backed instance storage for high random I/O performance. Half of our IT team is now able to concentrate on development as opposed to administration. We believe that the launch of AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will further help us drive our business forward.”
Investing in the future of Hong Kong
In 2008, AWS opened its first Amazon CloudFront Point of Presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to enable customers to serve content to end-users with low latency. AWS has since added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest going live in 2016, the same year AWS also launched the first Direct Connect location in Hong Kong. In 2013, AWS opened its first office in Hong Kong, which is today staffed by a wide range of functions including business development, solutions architects, professional services, technical support, technology evangelists, startup community, infrastructure engineers, and business operations.
AWS is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Hong Kong through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. For students, the AWS Educate program provides access to AWS services and content designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing. Dozens of universities and business schools in Hong Kong already participating in the program include the Chinese Methodist School North Point 1, City University of Hong Kong, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Community College, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Information Engineering College, the School of Professional Education and Executive Development, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Management Association, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Open University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, and many more.
Another program for higher education institutes is AWS Academy, which provides AWS-authored curriculum for students to acquire in-demand cloud computing skills. In Hong Kong, major institutions taking part include City University of Hong Kong, Community College of City University, Hong Kong Community College of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Management Association, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Technological Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, The School of Professional And Continuing Education of The University of Hong Kong and Youth College. AWS also offers a full range of training and certification programs to help those interested in the latest cloud computing technologies, best practices, and architectures to advance their technical skills and further support Hong Kong organizations in their digital transformation.
To help grow the next generation of Hong Kong enterprises, AWS supports startups across Hong Kong. AWS launched the AWS Activate program globally in 2013, helping provide Hong Kong startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts as well as web-based training, self-paced labs, customer support, third-party offers, and up to $100,000 in AWS Cloud Credits. AWS also collaborates with local accelerators and incubators such as Cyberport, and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) to provide startups with access to peers and investors.
Developers and businesses can access the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/local/hongkong/
About Amazon Web Services
For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 64 Availability Zones (AZs) within 21 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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Hong Kong SAR government welcomes the launch as an economic development milestone, citing the demand for large-scale cloud technology infrastructure
Thousands of customers and APN Partners across Hong Kong welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, including 9GAG, Bowtie, Cathay Pacific, Comba Telecom, FinFabrik, Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, Gogo Tech, HSBC, Hong Kong Disneyland, KPMG China, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, New World Development, Next Digital, RADICA, Royale International Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), Union Medical Healthcare, and many more.
SEATTLE, April 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world, and has announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta, and Milan. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can leverage the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region to run their applications locally, serve end-users across Hong Kong with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies from the world’s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest suite of cloud services to drive innovation. Customers can get started today at: https://aws.amazon.com/local/hongkong/
“Hong Kong is globally recognized as a leading financial tech hub and one of the top places where startups build their businesses, so we’ve had many customers asking us for an AWS Region in Hong Kong so they can build their businesses on the world’s leading cloud with the broadest and deepest feature set,” said Peter DeSantis, Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services. “The dynamic business environment that exists in Hong Kong – among startups, enterprises, and government organizations – is pushing them to be one of the foremost digital areas in Asia. By providing an AWS Region in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we hope this enables more customers to be more agile, innovate, and transform their end-users’ experience for decades to come.”
“We are delighted to see the official launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, and it comes at a time when we are embracing digital transformation and developing into an international innovation and technology hub,” said Nicholas W Yang, JP, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. “Data has become a new currency of the digital economy and a new fuel for innovation. This infrastructure region is an integral component to foster technology advancements, allowing for greater innovation and further facilitating our digital transformation. The opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region also enhances our leading position as a data hub and puts Hong Kong in a strong position to lead the next wave of innovation in data-related technologies.”
The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region offers three Availability Zones at launch. AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which are technology infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting business continuity, yet near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault-tolerance. With the scale of three Availability Zones, the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will enable organizations to provide lower latency to end users in Hong Kong, and across Asia Pacific. Additionally, local AWS customers with data residency requirements can now store their content in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with the assurance that their content will not move without consent, while customers building applications now have access to another secure AWS infrastructure region that meets the highest levels of security, compliance, and data protection.
Customers and APN Partners welcome the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Millions of active customers are using AWS each month in over 190 countries around the world, including hundreds of thousands of customers in Asia Pacific, and thousands of customers in Hong Kong. Organizations across Hong Kong are moving their mission-critical workloads to AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed-up time-to-market, including enterprise customers such as Asia Miles, Cathay Pacific, Chinachem Group, Comba Telecom, Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, HK01, HSBC, Hong Kong Disneyland, Kerry Logistics, KeptMe, KPMG China, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, New World Development, Next Digital, Ocean Park, Royale International Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Towngas, Turner, Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Union Medical Healthcare. AWS is also an enabler for Hong Kong’s most successful startups such as 8 Securities, 9GAG, AfterShip, Bowtie, FinFabrik, GreenTomato, GRANA, Gogo Tech, Haymarket, Kopi, Lalamove, Madhead, polljoy, PIXELS, Prenetics, SHOPLINE, Vyond, WeLend, WiZ Connected, and many more.
Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong-based international airline, has been using AWS since 2016, helping the airline deliver customer-centric products and services responsively, delivering a high level of performance and reliability for Cathay Pacific’s website and booking engine infrastructure. “AWS helped us re-architect and modernize our technology stacks into a cloud native design, reducing the software development duration time by 67 percent and infrastructure costs by 50 percent. This allowed us to improve our efficiency and time-to-market significantly,” said Lawrence Fong, General Manager, IT Solutions, and Information Technology of Cathay Pacific. “AWS’s impressive and leading suite of services has opened up a world of possibilities to our IT team, putting the foremost technology at our fingertips so we can test new concepts, and deliver innovative ideas quickly to our end-users. One such idea-to-implementation is to enable blockchain technology for Asia Miles, which will provide Asia Miles partners a single data source when managing account activity with a near real-time ability to manage rewards. Bringing a new AWS Region to Hong Kong reduces latency for our engineering team, helping them experiment faster and bring new tools to our travelers, ultimately resulting in a better customer experience.”
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), broadcasting in Hong Kong since 1967, is the first wireless commercial TV station in Hong Kong. As Hong Kong’s largest broadcaster, TVB provides around-the-clock entertainment and news to more than seven million Hong Kong viewers, and operates an international licensing and distribution business accessible in more than 200 countries and regions. “During the year, our terrestrial TV channels continue to capture robust viewership and report an average audience share of 82 percent against all TV channels, both free and pay, during weekday prime time,” said SK Cheong, TVB Executive Director and General Manager. “We have transformed from a traditional TV station to a complete spectrum of media platforms spanning terrestrial TV, over-the-top (OTT) service, and social media, and AWS helps us handle traffic spikes, uplift service availability, and boost productivity of our digital media business during this journey. By leveraging the vast amount of features that AWS offers, we have been able to build a new content marketing and e-commerce business model in our online video platform, Big Big Channel, and take a leading role in transforming standard television to a full digitalized and interactive experience. With the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will further strengthen our technology platform, lower latency to online viewers, and continue toward our goal to expand our digital business to a global scale.”
New World Development (NWD) is one of Hong Kong’s largest corporations focused on property development, infrastructure, and services. New World Development develops and invests in properties in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, mainland China, and Southeast Asia, and its portfolio includes development and investment in about 24 million square feet of Hong Kong residential and commercial property; investments in 17 hotels; and an additional 4.5 million square feet of land planned for development. “By running on AWS, we have reduced our time-to-market by 30 percent, and improved service availability by up to 50 percent, all while saving 60 percent on our overall infrastructure cost compared to running on-premises data centers,” said Jason Lui, Assistant General Manager, Technology and Digital Services, New World Development. “NWD uses services like Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Cloudfront, Application Load Balancer, Amazon Workdocs, Amazon Workspaces, AWS IAM, AWS WAF, and AWS Certificate Manager. Now, with the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we can leverage more of AWS’s services at near instantaneous speed, which only furthers our technology journey.”
Swire Coca-Cola is one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world with the exclusive rights to manufacture, market and distribute products from The Coca-Cola Company in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, 11 provinces and the Shanghai Municipality in mainland China, as well as an extensive area of the western United States. “We started our cloud journey with AWS in 2018, with a belief that going all-in on cloud would accelerate innovation, and speed-up time-to-market, which ultimately will boost our business growth,” said Calvin Ho, Group Manager of Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Service & IT Operations. “We are planning to retire our existing data centers, saving us money on infrastructure costs, while increasing our operational agility with the security and reliability that AWS provides. We look forward to extending our partnership with AWS in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, while modernizing our digital applications so we can provide a better experience to our customers in Hong Kong, and across Greater China.”
Bowtie, an Insurtech firm, was granted Hong Kong’s first virtual insurance company license in 2018. Virtual insurers need to meet the same standards that regulators require of traditional insurers, and Bowtie has used AWS’s technology to attract both a younger generation, and modern users for a convenient experience as a website and a mobile app. “As a truly ‘made in Hong Kong’ insurance brand, Bowtie is here to reinvent insurance,” said Michael Chan, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Bowtie. “Bowtie runs its core system platform, including policy administration, claims and underwriting applications on AWS. Building on top of AWS has allowed us to ensure our company operates in a highly secure and available space as required of insurance companies operating in a highly regulated environment. AWS has more security certifications than any other cloud provider, bringing our customers, and us, a peace of mind that couldn’t be achieved with another cloud platform. With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, we will also be able to meet any requirements to keep our workloads on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region soil.”
WeLab, a leading Fintech company in Asia, is reinventing traditional financial services by creating seamless mobile experiences with proprietary risk management technology and artificial intelligence capabilities, operating in both B2C and B2B segments. The startup has recently been granted a virtual banking license by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, becoming the first home-grown Hong Kong Fintech company to establish a virtual bank. In Hong Kong, consumer financing solutions are offered to retail customers under the brand WeLend. “We leverage the technology breadth and stability of AWS to run our business, for example, using AWS to analyze unstructured mobile big data to make credit decisions for individual borrowers in seconds,” said Eddie Tse, Head of IT, WeLend. “The simplicity and commoditization of technologies that AWS delivers enables us to be more agile and reserve more time to solve real business problems rather than common platform challenges. The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will further help us use more of AWS’s leading cloud services, and move workloads that require low latency or data residency requirements to execute in the cloud.”
AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners welcomed the arrival of the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. The APN includes tens of thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Systems Integrators (SI) around the world. APN Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. SI Consulting Partners supporting enterprise and public sector customers in Hong Kong to migrate to AWS include Accenture, Capgemini, China Mobile International, Cloudaxis, CloudConnect, DXC Technology, eCloudValley, GrandTech Cloud Services, ICG, Infosys, Masterson Technology, Nextlink Technology, Rackspace, Telstra, GrowthOps, WTT HK, and many others. APN ISVs in Hong Kong including Deskvault, Multiable, NanoMatriX, RADICA, Torstone Technology, and many others, are already using AWS to deliver their software to customers around the world and will serve their Hong Kong customers from the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region at launch. Customers can also easily find, trial, deploy, and buy software solutions for AWS on the AWS Marketplace. For the full list of the members of the AWS Partner Network, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/.
Accenture, a longtime APN Consulting Partner, is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. With 477,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. “With nearly 15 years of collaboration with AWS, Accenture has engineered solutions for tens of thousands of applications on AWS and employs more than 5,000 cloud professionals trained and certified on AWS which are helping accelerate innovation for clients globally,” said Peter Yen, managing director and intelligent engineering services lead at Accenture Greater China. “The Accenture Amazon Business Group (AABG) also holds 13 AWS awarded competencies in SAP, security, mobile, IOT, big data, and machine learning, among others. Accenture is committed to helping local clients compete at a global level by joining AWS in their Hong Kong launch and expanding our own dedicated AABG team in Hong Kong. With impressive results for clients, such as Cathay Pacific, Accenture is now more ready than ever to help Hong Kong clients every day across every industry.”
Jointly engineered by VMware and AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand hybrid cloud service that is delivered, sold, and supported by VMware and its partners. VMware Cloud on AWS enables customers to run applications across a consistent VMware vSphere-based hybrid cloud environment, with optimized access to a broad range of AWS services. “Customers across Asia Pacific and in all industries power their digital businesses using both AWS and VMware,” said Duncan Hewett, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific and Japan at VMware. “Many want to integrate their on-premises data centers with AWS to create a consistent hybrid cloud environment. VMware Cloud on AWS delivers on this promise and we look forward to extending the coverage to the new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) in 2019. We look forward to empowering customers to quickly and confidently scale up or down capacity, without change or friction, and accelerate their cloud migrations.”
RADICA provides digital marketing solutions to around 300 businesses, working with customers across Asia to help clients boost the value of their customer data and customer relationship management (CRM) systems for email, mobile, and social media messaging campaigns. The Hong Kong-headquartered company offers a proprietary e-communication integration platform which automates campaign activity and sends out as many as three million marketing messages a day. “To maximize agility, we have migrated the e-communication platform to AWS, reshaping and strengthening our IT infrastructure,” said Wallis Chan, Managing Director of RADICA. “We have been able to enhance our services significantly and can launch multi-channel campaigns for new clients around 80 percent faster. Previously, customers may have had to wait up to three months to deploy this platform for digital campaigns. RADICA uses multiple Amazon EC2 instance types including M4, C4, R3, and l2, which provides speedy SSD-backed instance storage for high random I/O performance. Half of our IT team is now able to concentrate on development as opposed to administration. We believe that the launch of AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will further help us drive our business forward.”
Investing in the future of Hong Kong
In 2008, AWS opened its first Amazon CloudFront Point of Presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to enable customers to serve content to end-users with low latency. AWS has since added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest going live in 2016, the same year AWS also launched the first Direct Connect location in Hong Kong. In 2013, AWS opened its first office in Hong Kong, which is today staffed by a wide range of functions including business development, solutions architects, professional services, technical support, technology evangelists, startup community, infrastructure engineers, and business operations.
AWS is also continuing to invest in the upskilling of local developers, students, and the next generation of IT leaders in Hong Kong through programs such as AWS Academy and AWS Educate. For students, the AWS Educate program provides access to AWS services and content designed to build knowledge and skills in cloud computing. Dozens of universities and business schools in Hong Kong already participating in the program include the Chinese Methodist School North Point 1, City University of Hong Kong, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Community College, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Information Engineering College, the School of Professional Education and Executive Development, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Education University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Management Association, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Open University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, and many more.
Another program for higher education institutes is AWS Academy, which provides AWS-authored curriculum for students to acquire in-demand cloud computing skills. In Hong Kong, major institutions taking part include City University of Hong Kong, Community College of City University, Hong Kong Community College of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kong Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Management Association, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Technological Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, The School of Professional And Continuing Education of The University of Hong Kong and Youth College. AWS also offers a full range of training and certification programs to help those interested in the latest cloud computing technologies, best practices, and architectures to advance their technical skills and further support Hong Kong organizations in their digital transformation.
To help grow the next generation of Hong Kong enterprises, AWS supports startups across Hong Kong. AWS launched the AWS Activate program globally in 2013, helping provide Hong Kong startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts as well as web-based training, self-paced labs, customer support, third-party offers, and up to $100,000 in AWS Cloud Credits. AWS also collaborates with local accelerators and incubators such as Cyberport, and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) to provide startups with access to peers and investors.
Developers and businesses can access the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region beginning today. A full list of services and details on pricing is available at https://aws.amazon.com/local/hongkong/
About Amazon Web Services
For 13 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 64 Availability Zones (AZs) within 21 geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK. Millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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Loomis Sayles strengthens Singapore investment staff, capabilities
KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) -- Loomis Sayles Investments Asia Pte Ltd has named Thu Ha Chow as portfolio manager on Asia credit strategies and senior credit strategist for the emerging markets debt team.
She will report to deputy chief investment officer, David Waldman and continue to report to Loomis Sayles Investments Asia Pte Ltd managing director and Loomis Sayles Singapore office head, Paul Ong.
She joins existing emerging markets debt portfolio manager, Elisabeth Colleran in co-managing the Asia Bond Plus strategy, seeking to generate returns by investing in corporate bonds benefiting from the long-term structural growth in Asia.
In addition to Thu Ha’s portfolio management responsibilities, she will also focus on identifying Asian corporate credit investment opportunities across emerging market debt portfolios.
Also in Singapore, Zhi Wei Feng and Jeremy Teng have joined the firm as senior credit research analysts.
Zhi Wei focuses primarily on the Chinese corporate sector, including the property sector while Teng’s coverage concentrates on Asian credits outside of China.
Both report to director of credit research, Chris Gootkind and Ong.
Loomis Sayles recently hired emerging market research analysts in Boston and London to support and expand its research and investing capabilities globally.
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She will report to deputy chief investment officer, David Waldman and continue to report to Loomis Sayles Investments Asia Pte Ltd managing director and Loomis Sayles Singapore office head, Paul Ong.
She joins existing emerging markets debt portfolio manager, Elisabeth Colleran in co-managing the Asia Bond Plus strategy, seeking to generate returns by investing in corporate bonds benefiting from the long-term structural growth in Asia.
In addition to Thu Ha’s portfolio management responsibilities, she will also focus on identifying Asian corporate credit investment opportunities across emerging market debt portfolios.
Also in Singapore, Zhi Wei Feng and Jeremy Teng have joined the firm as senior credit research analysts.
Zhi Wei focuses primarily on the Chinese corporate sector, including the property sector while Teng’s coverage concentrates on Asian credits outside of China.
Both report to director of credit research, Chris Gootkind and Ong.
Loomis Sayles recently hired emerging market research analysts in Boston and London to support and expand its research and investing capabilities globally.
-- BERNAMA
Friday, April 26, 2019
APTORUM GROUP ESTABLISHES SMART PHARMA TO FOCUS ON COMPUTATIONAL REPURPOSED DRUG DISCOVERY FOR ORPHAN AND UNMET DISEASES
SINGAPORE, April 24 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM) today announced the establishment of a new subsidiary group, Smart Pharma (“SmartP”), which operates its novel computational repurposed drug discovery, modeling and validation platform, together referred to as the “Smart-ACTTM” platform.
Smart-ACTTM stands for Accelerated Commercialization of Therapeutics and encompasses state-of-the-art technology in systematic screening of existing approved drug molecules against selected therapeutic targets. Specifically, the Smart-ACTTM platform comprises of a network of modules and processes that simulate the effectiveness of drug molecules against diseases for outcome prediction and selection. The Smart-ACTTM platform will initially focus on the screening drug molecules for orphan diseases or unmet medical needs.
To date, SmartP has, under the recently established Smart-ACTTM platform, successfully screened 1,615 compounds against 3 therapeutic target proteins which are related to poor prognosis of neuroblastoma (“NB”). NB is a type of cancer that forms in certain types of nerve tissue and most frequently in the adrenal glands as well as spine, chest, abdomen or neck. The preliminary results from the Smart-ACTTM platform have now identified a number of potential repurposed drug candidates that could show promise against such disease. SmartP will next move on to conduct further in vitro and in vivo validation of these candidates through collaboration with Aptorum Group Limited to assess and validate the candidates’ usage for such new indication.
Drug repurposing typically involves the use of an approved drug or a drug under development for an indication than that for which it was originally developed. The safety profiles and CMC perspectives of these drug molecules are typically well-established and therefore drug repurposing represents a lower risk approach for drug discovery/development. One of the better-known examples of successful drug repurposing is thalidomide, which was originally developed to treat morning sickness but withdrawn from the market due to its birth defect side effects. Later, it was repurposed for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
SmartP targets to discover up to 10 repurposed drug candidates per annum under the Smart-ACTTM platform, which will continue to develop and enrich its library of intellectual property for such discoveries.
Further information on the Smart-ACTTM platform can be found on our website: http://www.smtph.com.
Founder of Aptorum Group and Smart Pharma, Mr. Ian Huen, commented: “Our Smart-ACTTM platform is a novel tool that we believe completely transforms the drug repurposing and discovery industry which traditionally relied on scattered and serendipitous discoveries. Instead, our Smart-ACTTM platform is based on computerized processes to perform systematic screening and prediction of drug molecules to accelerate the commercialization of therapeutics, with initial focus on orphan diseases and unmet medical needs. Aptorum Group is very excited with the development of Smart Pharma, with whom it will be actively seeking collaboration and co-development opportunities with the wider industry.”
About Aptorum Group Limited
Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM) is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing a broad range of therapeutic and diagnostic technologies to tackle unmet medical needs. Aptorum Group is pursuing therapeutic and diagnostic projects in neurology, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, oncology and other disease areas as well as non-therapeutic areas such as surgical robotics and the operations of its medical clinic in Hong Kong, Talem Medical, with the initial focus on treatment of chronic diseases resulting from modern sedentary lifestyles and aging population.
For more information about Aptorum Group Limited, please visit www.aptorumgroup.com.
About Smart Pharma
Smart Pharma’s holding company, SMTPH Limited, and its group companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Aptorum Group Limited, focuses on deploying its Smart-ACTTM platform to revolutionize pharmaceutical discovery and development.
For more information about Smart Pharma, please visit www.smtph.com.
Disclaimer and Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes statements concerning Aptorum Group Limited and its future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Aptorum Group has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect its business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions including, without limitation, risks related to its announced management and organizational changes, the continued service and availability of key personnel, its ability to expand its product assortments by offering additional products for additional consumer segments, the company’s anticipated growth strategies, anticipated trends and challenges in its business, and its expectations regarding, and the stability of, its supply chain, and the risks more fully described in Aptorum Group’s Form 20-F and other filings that Aptorum Group may make with the SEC in the future. Aptorum Group assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
To date, SmartP has, under the recently established Smart-ACTTM platform, successfully screened 1,615 compounds against 3 therapeutic target proteins which are related to poor prognosis of neuroblastoma (“NB”). NB is a type of cancer that forms in certain types of nerve tissue and most frequently in the adrenal glands as well as spine, chest, abdomen or neck. The preliminary results from the Smart-ACTTM platform have now identified a number of potential repurposed drug candidates that could show promise against such disease. SmartP will next move on to conduct further in vitro and in vivo validation of these candidates through collaboration with Aptorum Group Limited to assess and validate the candidates’ usage for such new indication.
Drug repurposing typically involves the use of an approved drug or a drug under development for an indication than that for which it was originally developed. The safety profiles and CMC perspectives of these drug molecules are typically well-established and therefore drug repurposing represents a lower risk approach for drug discovery/development. One of the better-known examples of successful drug repurposing is thalidomide, which was originally developed to treat morning sickness but withdrawn from the market due to its birth defect side effects. Later, it was repurposed for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
SmartP targets to discover up to 10 repurposed drug candidates per annum under the Smart-ACTTM platform, which will continue to develop and enrich its library of intellectual property for such discoveries.
Further information on the Smart-ACTTM platform can be found on our website: http://www.smtph.com.
Founder of Aptorum Group and Smart Pharma, Mr. Ian Huen, commented: “Our Smart-ACTTM platform is a novel tool that we believe completely transforms the drug repurposing and discovery industry which traditionally relied on scattered and serendipitous discoveries. Instead, our Smart-ACTTM platform is based on computerized processes to perform systematic screening and prediction of drug molecules to accelerate the commercialization of therapeutics, with initial focus on orphan diseases and unmet medical needs. Aptorum Group is very excited with the development of Smart Pharma, with whom it will be actively seeking collaboration and co-development opportunities with the wider industry.”
About Aptorum Group Limited
Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM) is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing a broad range of therapeutic and diagnostic technologies to tackle unmet medical needs. Aptorum Group is pursuing therapeutic and diagnostic projects in neurology, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, oncology and other disease areas as well as non-therapeutic areas such as surgical robotics and the operations of its medical clinic in Hong Kong, Talem Medical, with the initial focus on treatment of chronic diseases resulting from modern sedentary lifestyles and aging population.
For more information about Aptorum Group Limited, please visit www.aptorumgroup.com.
About Smart Pharma
Smart Pharma’s holding company, SMTPH Limited, and its group companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Aptorum Group Limited, focuses on deploying its Smart-ACTTM platform to revolutionize pharmaceutical discovery and development.
For more information about Smart Pharma, please visit www.smtph.com.
Disclaimer and Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes statements concerning Aptorum Group Limited and its future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Aptorum Group has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect its business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions including, without limitation, risks related to its announced management and organizational changes, the continued service and availability of key personnel, its ability to expand its product assortments by offering additional products for additional consumer segments, the company’s anticipated growth strategies, anticipated trends and challenges in its business, and its expectations regarding, and the stability of, its supply chain, and the risks more fully described in Aptorum Group’s Form 20-F and other filings that Aptorum Group may make with the SEC in the future. Aptorum Group assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Contacts
For Aptorum Group Limited
Contact
Investor Relations and Media
Tel: +852 2117 6611
Email: investor.relations@aptorumgroup.com
Website: http://www.aptorumgroup.com
For Smart Pharma
Contact
Information Request
Tel: +852 2117 6611
Email: info@smtph.com
Website: http://www.smtph.com
Contact
Investor Relations and Media
Tel: +852 2117 6611
Email: investor.relations@aptorumgroup.com
Website: http://www.aptorumgroup.com
For Smart Pharma
Contact
Information Request
Tel: +852 2117 6611
Email: info@smtph.com
Website: http://www.smtph.com
Source: Aptorum Group Limited
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SIMO Holdings granted summary judgement on patent infringement claims
KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 (Bernama) -- The United States (US) District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted a summary judgment of patent infringement claims of the holding company of Skyroam Inc, SIMO Holdings Inc.
The court found that products offered by UCloudLink Network Technology Limited America, brand-named GlocalMe, infringed on Skyroam’s patent.
SIMO’s lawsuit alleges that UCloudLink infringes certain claims of US Patent 9,736,689 by selling its infringing WiFi hotspot devices in the US, according to a statement.
The lawsuit alleges unauthorised use of patented technology, which is prohibited by law, and is intended to protect SIMO’s significant investment in its innovative Virtual SIM (vSIM) technology.
It also seeks monetary damages and an injunction to prevent UCloudLink from selling any products in the US that infringe SIMO’s patent.
Skyroam is a worldwide leading provider of software-based mobile connectivity solutions. Its innovative technology is available in over 130 countries involving over 500 retail locations. For more information, contact https://www.skyroam.com.
-- BERNAMA
The court found that products offered by UCloudLink Network Technology Limited America, brand-named GlocalMe, infringed on Skyroam’s patent.
SIMO’s lawsuit alleges that UCloudLink infringes certain claims of US Patent 9,736,689 by selling its infringing WiFi hotspot devices in the US, according to a statement.
The lawsuit alleges unauthorised use of patented technology, which is prohibited by law, and is intended to protect SIMO’s significant investment in its innovative Virtual SIM (vSIM) technology.
It also seeks monetary damages and an injunction to prevent UCloudLink from selling any products in the US that infringe SIMO’s patent.
Skyroam is a worldwide leading provider of software-based mobile connectivity solutions. Its innovative technology is available in over 130 countries involving over 500 retail locations. For more information, contact https://www.skyroam.com.
-- BERNAMA
AXIOMSL RECOGNIZED FOR EXEMPLARY INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES WITH ISO 27001 CERTIFICATION
International Standard Outlines Best Practices for Information Security Management Systems
NEW YORK, April 24 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management solutions, today announced that it has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification (known as ISO 27001). The certification covers AxiomSL’s core software and ControllerView® flagship product, its system development, professional and client support services and company operations. It also covers AxiomSL’s cloud-based solutions, operations and client support.
Created by a joint committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards, and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which publishes international standards for all fields of electrotechnology, ISO 27001 validates the effectiveness of companies’ security processes related to financial information, intellectual property, employee details, third-party information and other assets.
“Upholding the highest standards of information security is of tremendous importance to us, and we’re pleased to have achieved ISO 27001 certification, the de facto standard in the global financial services industry,” said Vlad Etkin, Chief Information Officer at AxiomSL. “With the expansion of our client base and solutions around the world, strong processes are of utmost importance to our continued success in this dynamic industry. We dedicated resources to this important effort, and our entire team is proud to have met ISO 27001’s exacting requirements. Achieving this milestone in AxiomSL’s journey demonstrates our drive for excellence and our commitment to upholding the necessary controls to ensure our technology, people and processes meet high quality standards.”
ISO 27001 compliance testifies to AxiomSL’s commitment to a systematic and ongoing approach to managing information-security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company and customer information. AxiomSL received this certification after undergoing a rigorous audit conducted by a certification body accredited through the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board. The audit covered AxiomSL’s information security risks management processes, threats and vulnerabilities treatment; design and implementation of information security management system; BCP; HR and vendor management; system development, as well as other ISO-related areas. AxiomSL’s auditor found the company’s controls met or exceeded the criteria for ISO 27001 certification.
“Given that ControllerView, AxiomSL’s data integrity and control platform, is instrumental in meeting regulatory requirements for the world’s leading financial institutions, it is imperative that we have people, processes and technologies focused on information security, especially as our clients increasingly choose to implement the platform on AxiomSL’s cloud,” Aaron Slutsky, AxiomSL’s Chief Security Officer, added. “The ISO 27001 standard ensures our stakeholders that we are processing valuable data using a managed, established methodology to help mitigate risk. And AxiomSL will conduct the annual audits required by the ISO 27001 framework, further demonstrating our drive to continuously improve our security practices, internal processes and data governance.”
About AxiomSL
AxiomSL is the leading global provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management solutions for financial services firms, including banks, broker dealers, asset managers and insurance companies. Its unique enterprise data management (EDM) platform delivers data-lineage, risk aggregation, analytics, workflow automation, validation and traceability. For more information, visit www.axiomsl.com.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190424005195/en/
Contact
Media:
Danielle Orsino
Water & Wall Group
danielle@w.group
+1 646 343 9672
Francine Gittins
AxiomSL
fgittins@axiomsl.com
+1 212 248 4188
Source : AxiomSL
--BERNAMA
NEW YORK, April 24 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management solutions, today announced that it has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification (known as ISO 27001). The certification covers AxiomSL’s core software and ControllerView® flagship product, its system development, professional and client support services and company operations. It also covers AxiomSL’s cloud-based solutions, operations and client support.
Created by a joint committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which promotes worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards, and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which publishes international standards for all fields of electrotechnology, ISO 27001 validates the effectiveness of companies’ security processes related to financial information, intellectual property, employee details, third-party information and other assets.
“Upholding the highest standards of information security is of tremendous importance to us, and we’re pleased to have achieved ISO 27001 certification, the de facto standard in the global financial services industry,” said Vlad Etkin, Chief Information Officer at AxiomSL. “With the expansion of our client base and solutions around the world, strong processes are of utmost importance to our continued success in this dynamic industry. We dedicated resources to this important effort, and our entire team is proud to have met ISO 27001’s exacting requirements. Achieving this milestone in AxiomSL’s journey demonstrates our drive for excellence and our commitment to upholding the necessary controls to ensure our technology, people and processes meet high quality standards.”
ISO 27001 compliance testifies to AxiomSL’s commitment to a systematic and ongoing approach to managing information-security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company and customer information. AxiomSL received this certification after undergoing a rigorous audit conducted by a certification body accredited through the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board. The audit covered AxiomSL’s information security risks management processes, threats and vulnerabilities treatment; design and implementation of information security management system; BCP; HR and vendor management; system development, as well as other ISO-related areas. AxiomSL’s auditor found the company’s controls met or exceeded the criteria for ISO 27001 certification.
“Given that ControllerView, AxiomSL’s data integrity and control platform, is instrumental in meeting regulatory requirements for the world’s leading financial institutions, it is imperative that we have people, processes and technologies focused on information security, especially as our clients increasingly choose to implement the platform on AxiomSL’s cloud,” Aaron Slutsky, AxiomSL’s Chief Security Officer, added. “The ISO 27001 standard ensures our stakeholders that we are processing valuable data using a managed, established methodology to help mitigate risk. And AxiomSL will conduct the annual audits required by the ISO 27001 framework, further demonstrating our drive to continuously improve our security practices, internal processes and data governance.”
About AxiomSL
AxiomSL is the leading global provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management solutions for financial services firms, including banks, broker dealers, asset managers and insurance companies. Its unique enterprise data management (EDM) platform delivers data-lineage, risk aggregation, analytics, workflow automation, validation and traceability. For more information, visit www.axiomsl.com.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190424005195/en/
Contact
Media:
Danielle Orsino
Water & Wall Group
danielle@w.group
+1 646 343 9672
Francine Gittins
AxiomSL
fgittins@axiomsl.com
+1 212 248 4188
Source : AxiomSL
--BERNAMA
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