Author: Nick Wilsion
CoverGo Asia’s no-code insurance technology leader, is expanding to the USA, Canada, and Latin America to help insurance companies digitize to remain agile and relevant in this high-tech era. CoverGo offers a no-code platform for insurance firms to streamline their ecosystem from building products to managing claims. Since January 2021, the company’s subscription revenue has risen by over 400%. To accelerate its international expansion, CoverGo has appointed DP88as its strategic advisor. The partnership has helped CoverGo secure initial funding for expansion, market insights and relationships with key partners and investors for the upcoming equity fundraising round. CoverGo’s expansion comes amid…
With approvals and permitting from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and State of Texas, terminal development is the next step. Texas high-speed rail investors today announced their intention to form an entity that will develop train stations in Dallas, Houston and Grimes County near College Station, where the permitted high-speed rail line terminals will be located. The entity will be known as Texas High-Speed Rail Station Development Corporation, “SDC.” This entity is independently owned by a consortium of Texas investors and separate from Texas Central. Cadiz Riverfront Holdings and Cadiz Development Houston LLC will form SDC…
easyMarkets is very happy to announce its integration with the TradingView platform. Now our clients can access TradingView’s social network for traders, one-click trading directly from charts and advanced analysis features by connecting their easyMarkets account to the TradingView interface. This offering extends our client’s choices of platforms to trade on – easyMarkets Web and App, MT4 and now TradingView. EasyMarkets CMO, Ohad Golan: We are very excited about offering our clients yet another trading platform, especially one as robust as TradingView. This integration also makes us one of the few brokers in the industry to provide our customers with…
As the Hong Kong art market develops at a phenomenal pace, London is relatively less attractive than it was ten years ago. Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips are now selling certain Western masterpieces – for example, by Basquiat, Still, Richter and Ghenie – in Asia rather than in London, reflecting a general shift of the global art market towards the East. Artprice looks more closely at this phenomenon in its latest Contemporary art market report. Fine Art auction turnover: Hong Kong vs. London Calmed Tensions (1937) by Wassily Kandinsky, $29.4 million at Sotheby’s London, the best UK auction result so far…
Una Brands, e-commerce aggregator headquartered in Singapore, has acquired teen-owned plastic cup business Bellaforte, for AUD 1 million. Sam Richards, a 15-year-old teenager based in the Gold Coast, founded Bellaforte ( https://mybellaforte.com/ ) two years ago, selling reusable, affordable and recyclable unbreakable drinkware for celebratory events. “If we all make an effort to use reusable and recyclable products, over time, we can make the world a better place. Life is too short to drink out of crappy cups,” explained Sam Richards. In 2020, Bellaforte turned over record profits. Covid-19 skyrocketed Belleforte, sold via Amazon Marketplace, to new heights. To keep up with…
The creative economy is an ecosystem of professionals working in creative occupations, both within and outside the creative industry. According to a Deloitte report, the creative economy is rapidly growing and is forecasted to be a vital factor that will shape economic growth across the globe. Therefore, it is surprising that professionals within this industry often face exploitation and are undervalued by employers. Moreover, being a highly competitive industry, professionals often put up with these working conditions to avoid losing a job opportunity. Fortunately, The Design Database emerges as an ideal solution and a support system for specialists in creative occupations. The online membership-based…
An investment group led by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and also comprising PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media (the “Investment Group”), has completed the acquisition of 100% of Newcastle United Limited and Newcastle United Football Club Limited (“Newcastle United” or the “Club”) from St. James Holdings Limited. All requisite approvals have been obtained from the English Premier League and the acquisition was completed on 7 October 2021. The Investment Group is comprised of long-term, patient investors who have every confidence in the future success of the Club. Today’s announcement is the conclusion of a thorough and detailed…
Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, today announced its sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI)-driven security helped financial institutions prevent more than AU$354 million in fraud from impacting Australian businesses in the past year[1]. The protection of Australian businesses is the result of Visa pioneering the use of neural networks modeled on the human brain, to power its AI technology that analyses the risk of transactions in real time to find and stop fraud. The algorithm assesses more than 500 risk attributes in about a millisecond to produce a score of every transaction’s predicted fraud probability. Visa’s AI-powered security is increasingly…
Targeting full commercilaisation of its patented and world-leading drugs-of-abuse testing technology. OnMarket Live Offer for Professional & Sophisticated Investors: Neopharma Technologies Ltd is the owner and operator of a globally patented, trademarked and award winning Drugs-of-Abuse testing device and Enterprise Resource Management platform: TamperLoks DataVault. “Today we are excited to announce that with we have partnered with OnMarket: Australia’s largest investment and capital raising platform,” said Shaun Melville Global Head of Sales & Marketing for Neopharma Technologies. Neopharma Technologies is in the commercialisation stage for its market leading technology and has a number of global distribution agreements in place including…
New report by The Economist Intelligence Unit into productivity and remote work Two-thirds of business executives believe that remote work will continue in some form beyond the pandemic, despite a clear divergence in views over employee productivity when working from home, according to a new report, Reshaping Productivity, by The Economist Intelligence Unit. While 39 per cent of survey respondents witnessed an increase in productivity in their organisations since the pandemic forced the adoption of remote work practices, 32.6 per cent reported a decline in productivity, and the remaining 28.5 per cent saw no change. The global survey of more…