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Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 21 September 2020

At the Monetary Policy Meeting on 21 September, the Executive Board of the Riksbank decided to hold the repo rate unchanged at zero per cent. The Riksbank’s zero policy rate and extensive programme of measures are providing continued support to economic developments and helping inflation rise towards the target.The coronavirus pandemic has dominated developments in the global economy over the past six months. In the first acute phase in the spring, many countries were hit by sharp falls in GDP, rising unemployment and turmoil on financial markets. The members noted that the measures taken

First Episealer® surgery performed in the US

Episurf Medical (NASDAQ: EPIS B) today announces that the first Episealer® surgery in the US was performed yesterday. The surgery was performed by Dr. Doug Haltom, MD at the West Tennessee Bone & Joint Clinic in Jackson, Tennessee (Clinical Research Solutions, Jackson, TN), within the company's IDE Clinical Trial, EPIC-Knee: Episealer® Knee System IDE Clinical Study. “The procedure went great today. Instrumentation worked extremely well. Excited about the future of this product and procedure” says Dr. Doug Haltom. "This is, of course, a great milestone for us, and we would like to

Aker BioMarine opens new warehouse in India to meet growing demand for QRILL products

Aker BioMarine continues to invest in India by establishing a new distribution hub in Chennai, to keep the region well-stocked with its QRILL Aqua products.After first entering the Indian market in 2018, when Aker BioMarine India was established in Mumbai, the company has experienced growing demand for its products. The new Chennai warehouse will strengthen local presence in India while also enabling the company to serve its customers across the region with its nutrient-rich, krill-based ingredients for fish and shrimp feeds. “India is one of the world’s largest shrimp markets, which

Conotoxia introduces its own custom typeface

Following in the footsteps of the world's technological giants, Conotoxia now has its typeface, adding an essential piece of the puzzle to the brand's visual identification.The Conotoxia font, created especially for the fintech's use, will be adopted on the company's website, mobile apps, and marketing materials. The design process took almost a year. It reflects the brand's personality and distinguishes it from the competitors. Apart from visual branding and image consistency, there are also more down to earth motives to have a custom typeface. Published content must be easy to read,

Notification of managers’ and closely related parties’ transactions with Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S’ shares in connection with share buy-back program

ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 60 -1 OCTOBER 2020 In connection with the announced share buy-back program in Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S, Motortramp A/S continuously sells shares pro rata and the market is to be informed accordingly – see the attached file. Kind regards, Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S Martin Badsted CFO For further information: Martin Badsted, CFO, tel.: +45 3315 0451Anne-Louise Dam-Rasmussen, Head of Communications, tel.: +45 3273 0624

Human rights defenders from Iran and Belarus among 2020 Right Livelihood Laureates

STOCKHOLM - Imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, US civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, indigenous rights and environmental activist Lottie Cunningham Wren of Nicaragua, and Belarusian pro-democracy activist Ales Bialiatski and the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Centre “Viasna” have been selected as the 2020 Right Livelihood Laureates , the Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation said on Thursday.The Right Livelihood Award , widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,”

Wärtsilä to divest its Valves business

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 1 October 2020 at 10:00 AM EESTThe technology group Wärtsilä announces the divestment of 100% of the shares in Wärtsilä Valves Ltd to an affiliate of Evergreen Capital L.P., based in New York, US.  Wärtsilä Valves Ltd. supplies the entire range of three long-established brands: Shipham, John Mills and Robert Cort. Its activities include engineering, assembly, testing, sales and delivery of nickel aluminium bronze (NAB) and duplex valves for marine, oil & gas and energy markets. Additionally, Wärtsilä Valves offers applications for Valves’ products,

Telenor Connexion and Ericsson enable sustainable micro-factories with IoT Accelerator

· Powered by Ericsson IoT Accelerator, Telenor Connexion provides global connectivity to Wayout's sustainable micro-factories · Telenor Connexion to deliver cellular IoT connectivity management services, SIM cards and agreements with local operators · Ericsson IoT Accelerator enables cost-efficient IoT connectivity management and operations using the secure, scalable and standardized worldwide mobile network infrastructurePowered by Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) IoT Accelerator, Telenor Connexion will provide global connectivity to Wayout's sustainable micro-factories starting in East

Planetcon Oy become part of Rejlers Finland

Rejlers Finland has strengthened its building services expertise and acquired the entire share capital of Planetcon Oy on October 1, 2020. As a result of the share transaction, Planetcon will become a subsidiary of Rejlers business area Buildings, Rejlers PM Building Technology.Planetcon Oy has approximately 20 employees, was founded in the year 2000 in Jyväskylä and specializes in building technology, expert- and developer services. ”Rejlers building technology design expertise and experience deepen Planetcon's expertise in building technology construction and expert services. At the

BioStock: Scandion Oncology strengthens executive leadership

As its clinical development program intensifies, Scandion Oncology can start planning for its next phase of the company development and clinical trials of its top candidate, SCO-101, in metastatic colorectal cancer. This means the company is ready to transition into its next phase of development, and it took a major step in that direction by appointing Bo Rode Hansen to the position of CEO. BioStock reached out to the new CEO to learn more about what’s in store for Scandion Oncology in the months to come.Read the full interview with Bo Rode Hansen, CEO of Scandion Oncology, at biostock.se (

INVISIO launches the first headset that performs in all mission scenarios

INVISIO today launches a new innovative over-the-ear headset – the INVISIO T7. The tactical communication headset sets new standards for submersibility, ruggedness, flexibility, and comfort while combining industry-leading hearing protection with situational awareness. INVISIO has for many years led the market in advanced in-ear hearing protection headsets with situational awareness. The T7 headset extends that leadership to over-the-ear devices, combining the best of INVISIOs capabilities in tactical communication headsets. Designed for military and public safety professionals on

YIT starts planning to close down its Infrastructure business in Norway

YIT Corporation   Investor News     1 October 2020 at 9:45 a.m.YIT starts planning to close down its Infrastructure operations in Norway. The business in Norway scaled substantially down as a result of the sale of the Nordic paving and mineral aggregates businesses on 1 April 2020, and the outlook for the remaining Infrastructure business is weak. The potential exit from Norway is in line with YIT’s strategy to increase capital efficiency and to scale down operations which do not bring significant synergies or in which profitability does not meet the targets set. YIT will initiate co-

Airtours chooses Wallenstam and Birger Jarlsgatan 64

At Birger Jarlsgatan 64 in Stockholm, in the same property as Wallenstam’s Stockholm office, Sweden’s fourth largest tour operator Airtours is now moving into the fifth floor. This is a strategic choice as the business and all sales have been adapted to the fact that all trips are now arranged online and with personal service by telephone.“We have seen that our customers’ need for a physical store has almost completely disappeared so a move to a new premises without retail space feels totally natural,” says Stefan Chatzopoulos, Public Relations Manager at Airtours. Airtours was founded

Last patient successfully enrolled in the world’s first interventional trial with 3D microtumors as guide for choice of cancer treatment.

According to schedule, 2cureX’s clinical partner University Hospital Vejle today enrolled the last patient in the clinical validation study TICC1. In this interventional study, IndiTreat® test results guide the drug treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have exhausted guideline-based treatment options.The TICC1 clinical trial (Clinicaltrials.gov no. NCT03251612) was launched end 2017 with the purpose of evaluating IndiTreat’s ability to successfully guide the drug therapy of end-stage metastatic colorectal cancer patients. As planned in the trial protocol, 45 patients

Digital solutions with potential to transform service within the rail industry

With the digital transformation of the rail industry, follows an increased demand for up-to-date service and maintenance information. By making sure service technicians get appropriate training and have access to the latest technical documentation, the cost of downtime can be reduced. Semcon is aiming to grow its business within rail as the demand for new service solutions is rapidly increasing.“At Semcon we see great potential for growth by providing digital documentation and training solutions for the rail industry. Today, we are one of the leading suppliers of product information to a

Subaru Selects Veoneer to Manufacture New Generation EyeSight

Stockholm, Sweden, October 1, 2020: The automotive technology company Veoneer, Inc. (NYSE: VNE and SSE: VNE SDB), has partnered with Subaru to introduce the new generation EyeSight on the all-new Subaru Levorg.  Veoneer will begin producing systems for the Japan market starting later this year.Veoneer was selected by Subaru due to its experience in stereo vision systems and opto-mechanical design capabilities. This business is included in Veoneer’s previously announced backlog.  The new generation EyeSight hardware is a variant of Veoneer’s 4[th] generation stereo vision system, re-

Alfa Laval opens new global Application & Innovation centre in Denmark

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – opens an Application & Innovation centre for fluid handling technology in Kolding, Denmark to strengthen the company's global position within food and pharmaceuticals, which are important growth areas for the company.The purpose of the new Application & Innovation centre is to accelerate the development of new product innovations within the hygienic fluid handling technology (including pumps, valves, cleaning and mixing equipment). The 1,600-square-metre center, located at Alfa Laval’s site in Kolding,

IRLAB's mesdopetam IND accepted by the US FDA

IRLAB (Nasdaq Stockholm: IRLAB A) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted IRLAB's investigational new drug application (IND) for the drug candidate mesdopetam (IRL790). The acceptance of the IND will allow IRLAB to include US patients in the upcoming clinical trial in Parkinson's disease in accordance with the study protocol submitted with the IND application. The planned Phase IIb/III study for mesdopetam will thus include hospitals and enrol patients in the US and Europe. Mesdopetam is in development for the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesias in

SyntheticMR signs additional collaboration agreement with GE Healthcare MR

SyntheticMR announced today that they have signed an agreement with GE Healthcare to integrate their quantitative MRI solution SyMRI in GE’s platform. As part of the agreement, GE Healthcare will integrate the new SyMRI offering into their platform to provide faster workflows, unique physiologic information, and objective decision support leveraging quantification, to their customers globally.GE Healthcare currently sells a customized imaging solution, MAGiC, developed by SyntheticMR to their customers, which enables users to speed up their imaging workflow by generating multiple contrast-

Digia Hub is expanding – Digia is growing its freelancer network significantly with the acquisition of the consulting company NSD

Digia’s freelancer network, Digia Hub, will expand significantly as a result of the NSD acquisition. Digia Hub will now be able to provide a network of more than 1,800 professionals, through which companies in various sectors can directly acquire top experts for their own software development projects.On 1 October 2020, the owners of Digia Plc and NSD Consulting Oy signed an agreement by which Digia Plc will acquire the entire share capital of NSD Oy. NSD is a consulting company that specialises in demanding full-stack software development, particularly in Java and .NET environments. A

Nordic Capital sprints to EUR 6.1 billion Fund X in less than six months in wholly remote capital raise

· Tenth fund exceeds target of EUR 5 billion, closes at its hard cap with significant excess demand and is the largest fund raised in Nordic Capital’s history  · Very strong demand from a diversified blue-chip global base of new and returning investors with all due diligence conducted remotely  · Investors attracted to Nordic Capital’s leadership in its focus sectors, proven value-creation track record, high ESG ratings and resilient portfolio  · Fund X set to continue successful strategy of focusing on majority investments in non-cyclical growth companies in the Healthcare,

Gränges completes acquisition of GETEK GmbH and creates the new business unit Gränges Powder Metallurgy

Gränges’ previously announced acquisition of the remaining 49 per cent of the shares in GETEK GmbH was closed today. In connection with the acquisition, the name of the company will be changed to Gränges Powder Metallurgy GmbH and will constitute a new business unit within Gränges, focusing on advanced aluminium powder and spray forming technology. Today’s press release follows the announcement on 17 September 2020 of Gränges’ agreement to acquire the remaining 49 per cent of the shares in GETEK GmbH as well as the business Dispal[®], including production assets, intellectual properties

The most sensitive optical receivers yet for space communications

Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum reach, while also requiring high bit-rate operations. A novel concept for laser-beam based communications, using an almost noiseless optical preamplifier in the receiver, was recently demonstrated by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. In a new paper published in the scientific journal Nature: Light Science & Applications, a team of researchers describes a free-space optical transmission system relying on an optical amplifier that, in principle, does not add any excess noise –

Africa Oil Announces Favorable Prime RBL Redetermination

VANCOUVER, October 1, 2020 /CNW/ - (AOI–TSX, AOI–Nasdaq-Stockholm) – Africa Oil Corp. (“AOI”, “Africa Oil” or “the Company”) is pleased to provide an update on Prime Oil & Gas B.V. (“Prime”) Reserve Base Lending facility (“RBL”). Africa Oil has a 50% shareholding in Prime, a company with deepwater producing assets offshore Nigeria. The September redetermination of the Prime RBL has been approved by the banking syndicate with a total principal amortisation for 2020 of US$522 million. This is US$108 million less than management’s initial guidance of US$630 million as announced on February

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