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P27 Nordic Payments Platform to acquire Swedish company Bankgirot

P27 Nordic Payments Platform has on 6 October 2020 signed an agreement to acquire Bankgirocentralen BGC AB (Bankgirot), Sweden’s only clearing house for mass payments. Bankgirot has a central role in the Swedish payment system and handles transactions of a total value of approximately SEK 73 billion per day, including through its real-time payment service BiR, that enables the Swedish real time payment system Swish. The acquisition marks a very important step in P27’s ambition to create one common state-of-the-art payment platform in the Nordic countries.Lars Sjögren, CEO of P27 Nordic

Born too early with a 50/50 chance of survival - now she helps save other premature babies

When Sabina Checketts holds her hand a certain way, the tiny scar on the back of it looks like a rocket ship. Checketts got the scar during the first few days of her life, during a tenuous struggle for survival, after she was born at 28 weeks—12 weeks prematurely. Her rocket ship scar, and a few other small ones, are marks left by lines inserted into her tiny, frail body to keep her alive."I don't point these out to parents," Checketts says, "but to me they're badges of honor, because I survived."  The parents she's referring to are the parents of her patients. Thirty-three years after

Stora Enso to sponsor FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica 2023 and Trondheim 2025

STORA ENSO OYJ PRESS RELEASE 6 October 2020 at 15.00 EESTStora Enso will be the presenting sponsor for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 in Planica, Slovenia and in Trondheim, Norway in 2025.This marks the fifth and sixth time that Stora Enso will be sponsoring the Nordic World Ski Championships. The company will be presenting sponsor for the upcoming event in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2021 and previously served as presenting sponsor for the 2019 event in Seefeld, Austria, and the 2017 event in Lahti, Finland, as well as being the main sponsor in Falun, Sweden in 2015. “We are

Vicore Pharma announces the Nomination Committee for the 2021 Annual General Meeting

Gothenburg, October 6, 2020 – Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ) has appointed the Nomination Committee for the 2021 Annual General Meeting. The three largest shareholders as of August 31, 2020 have been offered to appoint a member to the Nomination Committee each, in accordance with the decision taken at the Annual General Meeting on May 20, 2020.The Nomination Committee consists of Staffan Lindstrand, appointed by HealthCap VII L.P., Evert Carlsson appointed by Swedbank Robur and Johannes Eckerstein, appointed by Protem Wessman. Vicore Pharma’s chairman, Michael Wolff Jensen, is also a

Altia and the Baltic Sea Action Group continue collaboration for the benefit of the Baltic Sea and the climate – regenerative farming included in Altia’s sustainability roadmap

Altia continues its collaboration with the Baltic Sea Action Group by renewing its Baltic Sea commitment. As part of the commitment Altia will provide training in regenerative farming practices to all of its contract farmers. Altia is a major buyer of barley in Finland and with this commitment Altia wants to support the adoption of more environmentally friendly farming practices.Altia has worked with the Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) already for five years. The updated commitment extends Altia’s objectives and introduces new tools for promoting regenerative agriculture. In 2018, as part

Conversion of Salaries/Fees into Share Options

6 October 2020 Independent Oil and Gas plc Conversion of Salaries/Fees into Share Options   Independent Oil and Gas plc ("IOG" or "the Company"), (AIM: IOG.L), the development and production company focused on becoming a substantial UK gas producer, announces that certain Directors and other members of the management and technical teams have accepted all or part of their salaries and fees as options over Ordinary Shares in the Company ("Salary/Fee Sacrifice Options") for periods between 1 March 2020 and 31 August 2020.   Salary/Fee Sacrifice Options As further detailed

Metsä Pavilion opens in Tokyo – a showcase of elegant design and fast offsite construction with wooden elements

The Metsä Pavilion is Business Finland’s project with Metsä Group as the main partner. The elegant pavilion highlights innovative architecture based on industrially manufactured wooden elements. The pavilion was built fast and is now ready to host events organised by Business Finland and Finnish businesses. During the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, the Metsä Pavilion will serve as a home base for the Finnish national teams. Using Metsä Wood’s Kerto LVL as the main material made the construction fast, light and green. The official opening of the Metsä pavilion, located on the grounds of

TF Bank AB (publ): Invitation to the presentation of the Interim report for January – September 2020

TF Bank AB will publish its interim report for the period January – September 2020, Thursday 15 October 2020, at 07.00 CET. We welcome media, institutional investors, analysts and other interested parties to participate in a telephone conference at 08.15 CET.Agenda (CET)07.00 – Interim report published 08.15 – Telephone conference with CEO Mattias Carlsson and CFO Mikael Meomuttel. It will be possible to ask questions after the presentation. To follow the telephone conference online go to www.tfbankgroup.com. To participate in the telephone conference, please call in using the

Selektope ® to protect new Mercy Ships hospital ship

Gothenburg, October 6, 2020: I-Tech AB’s barnacle repelling biotechnology for marine coatings, Selektope® has been selected to protect the hull of Global Mercy, the newest hospital ship being built for Mercy Ships, from barnacle fouling while docked for long periods of time at ports located in biofouling red zones off the coast of sub-Saharan Africa.   Mercy Ships is a charitable organisation whose volunteers provide medical treatment and undertake urgent operations onboard hospital ships docked at local ports in some of the poorest countries in the world. Since 1978, its

UPM seeks efficiency improvement in UPM Raflatac and in global functions

(UPM, Helsinki, 6 October 2020 at 13:05 EET) – As a result of the weakening world economic outlook as well as the COVID-19 related restrictive measures and their consequences, the uncertainty in UPM’s market environment continues. To ensure future competitiveness, UPM keeps taking action to decrease fixed and variable costs in its businesses and functions. UPM’s label materials business UPM Raflatac plans to simplify its organisation and increase efficiency in operations and distribution. If implemented, the plans would reduce approximately 100 positions in UPM Raflatac’s global

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Black holes and the Milky Way's darkest secret

Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK,

Stayble initiates clinical phase 2b study in Spain

Stayble Therapeutics today announced that the Company has initiated the first clinic in Spain for its clinical phase 2b study with the drug candidate STA363. Patient recruitment will commence immediately. The Company has now initiated clinics in all the three countries where it plans to conduct the study: the Netherlands, Russia and Spain. STA363 is intended for patients suffering from chronic disc-related low back pain.CEO Andreas Gerward comments: COVID-19, and hence the access to healthcare services, has posed a challenge to us in our effort to initiate clinics. The fact that we now have

Sustainable supply of raw material important to Dicot

Press release: Uppsala, October 6, 2020. Dicot AB, together with its partner in South Africa, Parceval Ltd, has initiated a partnership with the BioInnovation Africa (BIA) project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to ensure the long-term supply of raw material for Dicot's drug candidate. The aim of the BioInnovation Africa project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is to promote sustainable and mutually beneficial business partnerships between Europe and Africa by ensuring high ethical, social and

STRAX: AirPop “Air Wearables” world-wide launch

STRAX & Aetheris entered into a strategic partnership and exclusive 5 year distribution agreement to accelerate the supply of AirPop high performance face masks across the world. We are thrilled to announce the simultaneous launch of Airpop products through our dedicated direct to consumer website and online, www.airpophealth.com, and marketplace platforms across the world. Since 2015 Airpop has been creating custom designed medical grade performance, air purifying face masks for the inhabitants of some of the most polluted cities in the World. AirPop’s innovative combination of raw

Penneo A/S acquires KYC software business activities from CLA Reply ApS to fuel Penneo’s international expansion

Company Announcement No. 8-2020Copenhagen, October 06, 2020 Today, Penneo A/S (Penneo) entered into an agreement with CLA Reply ApS (CLA Reply) to acquire the company’s Know-Your-Customer (KYC) software activities. CLA Reply is a Danish SaaS company offering verticalized software for the audit and accounting industry. The acquisition is expected to strengthen the international roll out of Penneo’s end-to-end platform. “CLA Reply offers an innovative market-leading KYC software for audit and accounting firms. The KYC software has strong global potential that taps into the increasing

Metsä Board’s professional magazine wins an Ozzie in Folio Awards

Metsä Board Corporation press release 06.10.2020Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, has recently won a prestigious Ozzie Award for its stakeholder communications magazine spring 2020 issue. The award was given for design excellence in the category of cover design 2020, B2B, under 25,000 circulation. Metsä Board’s customer magazine is produced by Hube Helsinki Oy.   Marjo Halonen, VP Communications from Metsä Board said: “Our goal is to inspire and inform our customers globally about the potential and innovations in fibre-

Vestas introduces low-wind variant suited for India’s wind market and expands its production footprint in the country

News release from Vestas Wind Systems A/SAarhus, 6 October 2020The global demand for sustainable energy solutions in low and ultra-low wind areas continues to grow as renewable technology improves in efficiency and cost. This trend is especially prominent in India, the world’s fourth largest wind energy market, where the energy demand is expected to double and the government intends to add around 100 GW wind power in the predominantly low-wind market by 2030.[1] While the new turbine is globally applicable, it initially targets low and ultra-low wind condition projects in India and

Saudi Arabia: C20 attendees must call on government to free jailed activists

In January 2020, over 220 Civil Society Organizations endorsed a statement  issued by Amnesty International, CIVICUS and Transparency International announcing that they will not be participating in the sham Civil20 process hosted by Saudi Arabia, due to the Kingdom’s horrific human rights record. Ahead of the Civil20 Summit on 6-10 October, we address this letter to all the NGOs and CSOs attending the Summit.We are writing this open letter to raise our serious concerns relating to the

Finnair flies to 51 destinations in Europe and Asia in the winter, increases destinations for summer 2021

Finnair has trimmed its flight schedule for the winter season in line with customer demand, while planning to boost frequencies during spring 2021.  The update comes as the airline responds to a temporary softening of demand in the market due to widespread travel restrictions.  From 25 October, 2020 to 31 March 2021, Finnair will serve 45 domestic and European destinations with reduced weekly frequencies on almost all routes.   Finnair’s long-haul flights will focus on Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nanjing and Bangkok, which are also important cargo destinations. On the

Visma broadens its offering in cloud-based welfare ERP for the health and social care sectors with the acquisition of DomaCare in Finland

Visma’s acquisition of Invian Oy, and their key product DomaCare, will allow health and social care sector professionals to streamline customer processes, quality of care and financial management tasks. “DomaCare simplifies and integrates processes for over 100 private health and social care sector customers with one of the sector's preferred ERP systems and a broad understanding of their processes. Their solutions fit very well with Visma's product portfolio for automating the care and social sectors,” says Ari-Pekka Salovaara, Segment Director of Visma Software Nordics. Invian Oy’s

Clean water - an environmental issue on the rise

Axolot Solutions - Commercial updateWith its concept for industrial water purification, Axolot Solutions is acting not only on the technical and commercial arena. The issue of access to sufficient quantities of clean water also has a very clear political dimension. In fact, water is a common denominator for all the 17 global goals for a sustainable development, which the United Nations’ General Assembly has adopted, with a vision towards 2030. Bearing that in mind, it is rather surprising how little of the public debate that really relates to water, as is also the lack of sufficient efforts

BAMLET treatment of colon cancer in an animal model

BAMLET (bovine α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumour cells) is a molecular complex formed by bovine α-lactalbumin and oleic acid. New studies now reveal potent therapeutic effects of BAMLET in an animal model of colon cancer.BAMLET administration into the stomach or in the drinking water markedly reduced colon cancer development in susceptible mice. The effect was quantified as a reduction in tumor number and tumor size after 2 weeks. Long-term effects were also found in mice that had been treated for 27 weeks, which survived longer than untreated controls, where the disease developed faster.

Invitation to a presentation of the Momentum Group’s Interim Report for the second quarter 2020

Momentum Group will publish its Interim Report for the second quarter of the financial year 2020* on Friday, 23 October 2020 at 08:00 a.m. CEST. In conjunction with this, Momentum Group are pleased to issue this invitation to a webcast conference call in which CEO & President Ulf Lilius, CFO Niklas Enmark and Business Area Manager Clein Johansson Ullenvik will present the report and current status for the integration of Swedol in the Group and answer any subsequent questions. The conference call and presentation are available on the web or by telephone in accordance with the details

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