A.M. BEST AFFIRMS CREDIT RATINGS OF PINNACLE LIFE LIMITED

SINGAPORE, Feb 3 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B (Fair) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bb+” of Pinnacle Life Limited (Pinnacle Life) (New Zealand). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.

 

The ratings reflect Pinnacle Life’s low product risk profile, direct distribution capabilities and a lapse ratio consistently below the market average.

Pinnacle Life mainly underwrites simple life insurance in New Zealand’s term life market, relying primarily on the direct-to-consumer channel. In addition, the company continues to hold a stable market position in its targeted market. 

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SUNDANCE ENERGY AUSTRALIA LIMITED PROVIDES 2017 CAPITAL EXPENDITURE BUDGET AND 2016 FULL YEAR & Q4 PRODUCTION; ANNOUNCES BORROWING BASE IS REAFFIRMED AT $67 MILLION

DENVER, Feb 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sundance Energy Australia Limited (ASX:SEA) (NASDAQ:SNDE) (“Sundance” or the “Company”), a U.S. onshore oil and gas exploration and production company focused in the Eagle Ford in South Texas, estimates its 2017 capital expenditures will range between $80 and $88 million. Furthermore, the Company’s daily production rate for the full year of 2016 and fourth quarter was approximately 6,400 and 7,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day (BOED) respectively.

2016 Full Year & Q4 Capital Expenditures

During 2016, the Company had total capital expenditures of $84 million, of which it spent $43 million on drilling and completions, $14 million on facilities and field infrastructure projects, $23 million on acquisitions and $4 million on leasing. Of this total $19 million was expended in the fourth quarter.  These expenditures were funded with internally generated cash flow, proceeds from the equity offering in mid-2016 and the $7 million received from assets divested in the fourth quarter. 

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KEIO PLAZA HOTEL TOKYO HOSTS HINAMATSURI GIRLS' DOLLS FESTIVAL EXHIBITION

Displaying 6,500 Hanging Decorations and Japanese Bonsai

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo, one of Japan's most prestigious international hotels located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, will host a special exhibition of traditional Japanese arts to celebrate traditional Hinamatsuri girls' doll festival by displaying various traditional art ornaments in the hotel from February to March, 2017. This annually held exhibition has been extremely well received by guests, and this year features some 6,500 finely hand woven silk doll decorations, Japanese art ukiyoe items depicting scenes of "Japanese female culture", and "Bonsai" miniature decorative sculptured plants to give visitors a taste of Japan's traditional arts representative of the "Hinamatsuri Girls' Doll Festival".

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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES 600V/650V SUPER JUNCTION N-CHANNEL POWER MOSFETS WITH IMPROVED EMI PERFORMANCE

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Corporation’s (TOKYO:6502) Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of 600V/650V super junction N-channel power MOSFETs with improved EMI performance for use in industrial and office equipment. The new “DTMOS V series” will start with a line-up of twelve products. Sample shipments start today with mass production shipments scheduled for the middle of March.

 
The new series maintains the same level of low on-resistance and high speed switching performance of Toshiba’s current “DTMOS IV series,” while an optimized design process improves EMI performance by approximately 3 to 5dB^[1]. Also, reducing the on-resistance per area (R_ON x A) performance made it possible to add a new 650V 0.29Ω product into the DPAK package line-up. Products in the new series are suited for use in power supplies for industrial and office equipment that require high efficiency and compact size, adaptors and chargers for notebook PCs and mobile devices, and PCs and printers.

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ISID HOSTS THE FIBC2017 FINANCIAL INNOVATION BUSINESS CONFERENCE

Largest Global FinTech event to date with support by overseas accelerators and various embassies   Date: March 3, 2017 Venue: Marunouchi Building Hall & Conference Square (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Official Event Website: http://fibc.info/   TOKYO, Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The sixth FinTech pitch contest, “Financial Innovation Business Conference (FIBC) 2017,” will be held with support by well-known overseas FinTech accelerators and various embassies in Japan. This global event will be held on March 3, 2017. Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. (TOKYO: 4812) (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President, CEO & COO: Setsuo Kamai; “ISID”) launched FIBC in Japan in 2012. This year, the event will be held in English and will be the largest in its six-year history. More than half of startups at the pitch contest will be from overseas.  http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=28359

NASDAQ CORPORATE SOLUTIONS AND EUROLAND IR PARTNER TO PROVIDE ENHANCED FEATURES FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS WEBSITES

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 31 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq Corporate Solutions announces its partnership with Euroland IR to offer investor relations (IR) professionals worldwide with enhanced features for their IR websites. The partnership was formalized in December 2016 and brings comprehensive stock quotes, interactive charting and other IR website modules to thousands of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients across EMEA, Asia and the Americas. This upgrade for clients is already underway and follows the release of Nasdaq’s next generation IR website platform powered by Drupal 8 open source technology.

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HULFT PTE. LTD. HAS SIGNED A HULFT IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER AGREEMENT WITH FUJITSU INDONESIA STRENGTHENING SALES AND INSTALLATION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR THE HULFT SERIES IN INDONESIA

TOKYO, Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (JASDAQ: 9640) (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhiro Uchida; hereafter “SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS”) has today announced that its subsidiary in Singapore, HULFT Pte. Ltd., has signed a HULFT Implementation Partner Agreement ^(*1) with PT. Fujitsu Indonesia (Headquarters: Jakarta; President Director: Achmad Sunuadji Sofwan; hereafter “Fujitsu Indonesia”), as a partner working to promote HULFT products throughout the region. HULFT is a series of file transfer middleware products that has the fourth highest share of the market in terms of worldwide sales ^(*2), and the leading share of the domestic market in Japan ^(*3).

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