Tuesday, 9 February 2016

WESTERN UNION AND VIBER TO PROVIDE CROSS-BORDER MONEY TRANSFER CAPABILITIES

WU® ConnectSM Platform Continues Growth and Expansion; Provides Viber Users the Ability to Send Money to More than 200 Countries and Territories Around the Globe
 

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in global payment services, and Viber, a leading mobile messaging app with 664M+ unique users worldwide, today announced an agreement to offer a fast and simple way to send money to friends and family virtually anywhere in the world from the convenience of the Viber app. 

Saturday, 6 February 2016

ANAPLAN APPOINTS PAUL MELCHIORRE AS CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Anaplan, the enterprise planning cloud company, today announced the appointment of Paul Melchiorre, former president of iPipeline and enterprise software veteran, as its global Chief Revenue Officer.
 
Melchiorre’s appointment follows Anaplan’s recent announcement that it raised $90 million in a funding round and appointed James Budge as Chief Financial Officer.

ANAPLAN APPOINTS PAUL MELCHIORRE AS CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Anaplan, the enterprise planning cloud company, today announced the appointment of Paul Melchiorre, former president of iPipeline and enterprise software veteran, as its global Chief Revenue Officer.
 
Melchiorre’s appointment follows Anaplan’s recent announcement that it raised $90 million in a funding round and appointed James Budge as Chief Financial Officer.

A.M. BEST AFFIRMS RATINGS OF FIDELITY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

SINGAPORE, Feb 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Fidelity Life Assurance Company Limited (Fidelity Life) (New Zealand). The outlook for both ratings is stable.
 
The ratings mainly reflect Fidelity Life’s supportive risk-adjusted capitalization and strong operating performance.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS ANNOUNCES NEW CEO FOR MALAYSIA ISLAMIC FUND MANAGEMENT BUSINESS

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 (Bernama) -- Eastspring Investments (“Eastspring”), the US$125 billion Asian investment management arm of Prudential plc, and one of Asia’s largest investment managers, announced today that Mr Chung Yee Wah has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Eastspring Al-Wara’ Investments Berhad, Malaysia, effective 29 December 2015.  Mr. Chung was previously the Head of Institutional Business at Eastspring Investments Berhad.
 
As Chief Executive Officer, Mr Chung will be responsible for the strategy to grow our Islamic funds business.


Wednesday, 3 February 2016

PROMOTING MALAYSIAN GAMES INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH KICKSTARTER

PETALING JAYA, Feb 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Game Developers have been trying to get funding through many ways such as grants, seed money, VCs and even loans from Banks to develop their games. It is very encouraging to see Game Entrepreneurs being independent to seek their own ways and means to get funding and a few have been trying their luck via crowdfunding portal, Kickstarter.
 
Education game developer, ACE EdVenture Studio is taking its first feature gameChemCaper Act I: Petticles in Peril to Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight. In an effort to bring the game to as many kids as possible including locations without the internet access. The campaign on the popular crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter started on the 11 January 2016 and will be used to find backers for the game’s PC version.

http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=26157

SUNDANCE ENERGY AUSTRALIA LIMITED REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER 2015 RESULTS

DENVER, Feb 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sundance Energy Australia Limited (ASX:SEA) (“Sundance” or the “Company”), a U.S. onshore oil and gas exploration and production company focused in the Eagle Ford and Greater Anadarko Basin, reported its unaudited fourth quarter 2015 results as filed with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=26160