NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jan 31 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wings Capital Partners LLC (“Wings”) announced the successful closing of a secured term loan collateralized by a 777-200LRF on lease to Korean Airlines. The three-tranche financing has a maturity coterminous with the lease tenor and was provided by a syndicate of financial institutions including Barings, Nord LB, Bayern LB, and Investec.
Jakob Gallagher, Treasurer at Wings, mentioned: “This financing is consistent with our strategic initiatives of diversifying sources of financing and managing asset liability. The tenor and structure provide both a long-term solution for this asset and additional flexibility as Wings continues to build out its balance sheet.” About Wings Capital Partners Wings is a private, full-service aircraft leasing platform based in Newport Beach, California, with offices in Dublin, Ireland and Singapore. Wings primarily invest in single-aisle, in-production commercial jet aircraft from new to 10 years of age on lease to airlines around the world. The Company has an owned, managed and committed portfolio of 65 aircraft worth over $2.5 billion. Wings was formed in 2013 by R. Stephen Hannahs and is led by a highly experienced management team (an average 30 years of experience) with significant aviation leasing expertise and long-standing airline, OEM, lessor, banking, investor and legal relationships. Wings is owned by long-term investors Sightway Capital, LP and Corrum Capital Management, with the Wings management team holding a minority equity stake. For more information, please visit wingscap.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200130005250/en/ Contact Cathy Egan Wings Capital Partners [email protected] Source : Wings Capital Partners LLC
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Buddhist leader's annual peace proposal focuses on climate change, nuclear weapon abolition30/1/2020 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 -- Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist network president, Daisaku Ikeda recently released the 38th annual peace proposal to mark the anniversary of the SGI founding.
The main theme of the proposal, ‘Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity’, was on climate action and nuclear weapon abolition, with focus on the individual lives and suffering often hidden behind macroeconomic indices. Ikeda describes climate change as ‘a fundamental challenge, on which the fate of humankind hinges’ and stresses it threatens to render meaningless, global efforts toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Praising the energy of youth climate activists, he said: “When young people's will to transform reality merges with an indomitable optimism, the possibilities are limitless.” Ikeda proposes that UN Youth Climate Summits be held every year toward 2030 and calls for a Security Council Resolution mainstreaming youth participation in climate-related decision-making. He also proposes holding a People's Forum for a World Without Nuclear Weapons centered on hibakusha and civil society in Hiroshima or Nagasaki to follow the treaty's entry into force. Ikeda also highlights the plight of children and youth deprived of educational opportunities due to armed conflict or natural disasters, and therefore calls for strengthening of the financial foundation of the UNICEF-hosted Education Cannot Wait global fund. He concludes with a commitment to continued grassroots action, saying: The SGI will further promote empowerment of, by and for the people, as we address the climate crisis and other challenges with an expanding movement of global solidarity.” SGI is a community-based Buddhist network promoting peace, culture and education with 12 million members. More details at https://www.sgi.org. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 -- Japan’s Chiba Prefectural Government set to publicise the charms of its foods via publicity event and food fair in Singapore this February.
In a statement, Chiba welcomes visitors to the event and fair as there will be a full array of excellent food from the largest prefectures in Japan engaged in farming and fisheries. The publicity event will be held on Feb 1 from 2pm to 5pm at OUE Social Kitchen, providing visitors to experience the charms of foods from Chiba by tasting original cuisine prepared by local chef Michael Lau. Meanwhile, CHIBA (Japan) Food Fair 2020 will be held from Feb 1 until Feb 29 at the Japanese restaurant, Kuriya Dining in Great World City. Food products will be sold at four shops in Tampines 1, JEM, Jurong Point (WAttention Plaza) and Great World City. As Great World City is being refurbished, sales will start around early or mid-February. Marine and agricultural products including seasonal sweet potatoes and strawberries, as well as cookies and the like recommended by the Chiba government will be sold at the above-mentioned shops. On Feb 2, Chiba Prefecture's mascot ‘CHI-BA+KUN’ will appear at Jurong Point between 11am and 1.30pm and between 3pm and 5pm at Tampines, as part of an effort to liven up the food fair. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 (Bernama) -- Less than a week after announcing a new line up of five Executive Directors, Thomas Philip Advocates and Solicitors (Thomas Philip), the lawyers acting on behalf of the current Board of Directors (BoD) of WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd (WRP), today revealed the appointment of Leong Wai Leng as the President of WRP.
With extensive experience and expertise, Leong was selected based on his track record of managing WRP efficiently and honourably during his previous tenure with the company. The industry veteran is a much-respected figure in the rubber glove manufacturing field having risen through the ranks at WRP. Founder and Managing Partner of Thomas Philip, Mathew Thomas Philip said, “The board of WRP means business. With the recent executive shake-up and new people in key management positions, the board is setting WRP on the right track and sending out all the right signals. This is what is needed to win back the confidence of investors, customers, workers and other stakeholders in WRP.” “Leong’s appointment as the President is a highly anticipated announcement to activate the broad range of changes that are planned across WRP. His extensive experience in the industry and people management skills will assuredly be key to revive and future-proof WRP," he added. Alongside this announcement, Thomas Philip also informed the appointment of Loong Mei Yin as the Executive Chairman and Michael Sng as the Co-Chairman of WRP. Thomas Philip has indicated that the BoD will progressively make changes through various aspects of the company, including its people, processes and procedures, to ensure expeditious and effective turnaround of WRP. Source : Chimera Brand Relations Sdn Bhd KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 -- The Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau, along with Pacific Convention Plaza Yokohama (PACIFICO Yokohama) will host the 28th International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS28) in 2022.
STATPHYS28 will be held for five days, beginning July 25, at PACIFICO Yokohama North. About 1,200 participants, including 600 from overseas, are expected to attend the conference, according to a statement from Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau (YCVB). At STATPHYS27 held on July last year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Yokohama was chosen as the host city after competing with Beijing, making it the first STATPHYS in Japan in 54 years since 1968. Yokohama won the bid due to the tradition and high-level research on statistical physics in the country as well as enthusiasm and a vision for the event expressed by a local committee chaired by Prof T. Deguchi, Ochanomizu University. In addition, the superior advantages the city has to offer as a conference venue was also highly appreciated, including easy access from worldwide as well as safety and cooperation among the local committee and organisations in hosting the event. Throughout the bidding process, the YCVB, City of Yokohama and PACIFICO Yokohama working in unison with Japan National Tourism Organization supported the local committee and a successful bid was made to host this conference. -- BERNAMA Intelligent virtual assistant capabilities just got easier to set up, optimize and manage to deliver better experiences for customers
PALO ALTO, Calif. & CHENNAI, India, Jan 30 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Uniphore, an early conversation service automation category leader, is expanding its solution offerings by delivering akeira™ 2.0, an intelligent conversational digital assistant. Akeira helps automate conversations and reduce the cost of customer service for enterprises while providing a better customer experience. Key features and associated business outcomes include: Simplifying and accelerating deployment time of conversational digital assistants:
Akeira conversational digital agents work alongside call center humans to radically boost productivity and customer experience. They handle simple transactional conversations which shouldn’t require a human agent in the first place. They make suggestions during a call, proactively look up information and can take actions. Uniphore’s automated digital agents resolve issues in real time, with the capability to seamlessly hand back to a human at any time. Akeira is an intuitive, flexible, intelligent solution that allows you to build out a digital virtual assistant on existing interactive voice response channels, web chat and mobile app channels to interact with the customers answering or responding to a wide range of questions and requests. Secure enterprise connectors to standard CRM, ticketing and other backend applications further widen the type of requests and queries that can be handled. Akeira is multilingual, supporting global languages and flexible deployment options whether it is on cloud or on premise. Advanced functionality to save time At the core of akeira is a new visual modeler. This easy-to-use interface gives administrators the ability to design and deploy entire conversations from start to finish in a few minutes. Enterprise administrators can create an intent flow, design responses, train user input variations for intent identification and simulate intent behavior from a single interface. The Visual modeler is scalable and can be trained once and deployed across multiple channels. Akeira’s interfaces will guide a user through every step of the conversation creation process. Once deployed, akeira will keep track of real-time performance metrics using a virtual assistant health card that will identify the need for corrective action in a virtual assistant and enable administrators to take these actions based on data from the health card. The success or failure of a virtual assistant is greatly impacted by its ability to learn continuously from conversations that have happened and the outcomes or next actions. To help ensure more effective interactions, akeira now has a function called “assisted training” which is a semi autonomous machine learning capability where an organization can continuously train akeira based on historical conversations and even allow users to identify patterns for new intents. Our digital agents act just like humans. Akeira can personalize content and understands sentiment, trends, and intent. Extending akeira for even better customer experiences With an extensive list of features and functionality already built into akeira, there are additional areas and applications where akeira can be deployed. For example, the AI and automation capabilities can be leveraged across digital channels including web, mobile and social channels. Additional support for more languages and more automated machine learning capabilities are in development which will provide both enterprises and end customers a cost-efficient, personalized, accurate and predictive omnichannel customer experience. “As virtual assistants and various bots came on the scene a few years ago, many organizations rushed in, believing it would solve their problems of scale and reduce costs. But that proved false,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal at ZK Research. “In order for these bots to be successful, there needs to be capabilities which help not only set up but maintain and monitor the outcomes as well as help make recommendations for improvement. Uniphore’s latest akeira offering is a solid step forward in this direction.” “Customers have high expectations for any interactions with customer service agents, both real and virtual,” said Samith Ramachandran, senior vice president of product engineering at Uniphore. “Our latest akeira offering steps up the features and functionality of intelligent virtual assistants and makes them easier to set up, more cost effective to manage and, ultimately, smarter in the way they respond.” About Uniphore: Uniphore is the global leader in conversational service automation with offices in the U.S., India and Asia. The Company’s vision is to disrupt an outdated customer service model by bridging the gap between human and machine using voice, AI and automation so that every voice, on every call, is truly heard. Uniphore enables businesses globally to deliver transformational customer service by providing an automation platform where digital agents take over transactional conversations from humans and coach agents during calls and accurately predict language, emotion and intent – all in real time. Conversational automation and analytics, conversational assistant and conversational security elevate how enterprises support and engage their customers, build loyalty and realize efficiencies. For more information, please visit www.uniphore.com and connect with us on LinkedIn Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Additional Resources can be found here: Akeira Solution Page: https://www.uniphore.com/solution/akeira/ Akeira Solution Brochure: https://www.uniphore.com/insight/redefine-customer-engagement-experience-with-ai-driven-conversational-assistant-akeira-2/ View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200130005329/en/ Contact For Media Inquiries Contact: India / Asia Pacific: Nawaz Mohammed, Uniphore, +91 9980251596 [email protected] Hill +Knowlton Strategies [email protected] 9341394633 U.S. Rob Barlow, Uniphore [email protected] Source : Uniphore KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 -- The world’s largest cruise industry event will return to Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida, the United States for four days, beginning April 20.
This follows the announcement by the Seatrade Cruise Global on its 2020 State of the Global Cruise Industry Keynote lineup, launching its 35th anniversary edition opening session on April 21. Sponsored by the Hong Kong Tourism Board and presented in partnership with Cruise Lines International Association, the event kicks off with the State of the Global Cruise Industry panel, an exclusive round-table discussion joining senior leadership representing the world’s four largest cruise lines. The second panel, The Future of Luxury Cruising, will gather five leaders in luxury liners to discuss the rapid growth and increasing demand for living the high life on the high seas. Panelists include Frank Del Rio, President & CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings; Arnold Donald, President & CEO, Carnival Corporation & PLC; Richard Fain, Chairman & CEO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd; and, Pierfrancesco Vago, Executive Chairman, MSC Cruises. BBC World News broadcast journalist, Lucy Hockings is the returning keynote panel moderator at Seatrade Cruise Global 2020. Seatrade Cruise Global offers flexible attendee registration options. Those who register by Feb 21, can receive early bird pricing, savings as much as US$400. More details at seatradecruiseglobal.com (US$1 = RM4.08) -- BERNAMA Theme: Japanese Culture Exchange
Country: Singapore TOKYO, Jan 29 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sixteen Japanese university students are scheduled to visit Singapore from February 4th to 12th as part of the Japan’s Friendship Ties Programs “JENESYS 2019” promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). The group will visit the Embassy of Japan in Singapore, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Singapore and Japanese companies, they will learn the relationship between Japan and Singapore, and deepen the knowledge of Japanese contribution to Singapore, and through the experience of school exchange, homestay, and observation of traditional industry, cultural property protection, history and art, they are expected to have a better understanding of culture and society of Singapore. They will also appeal Japanese culture during each program. Through this program, we hope the participants proactively share the appeals of Japan and other information after returning to Japan and it ties the relationships between Japan and Singapore. [For reference] Japan’s Friendship Ties Programs “JENESYS 2019” People with the ability and future mission to deliver messages between Japan and the countries and regions of Asia and Oceania are invited and dispatched in order to promote an understanding of Japan with regard to politics, economics, society, culture, history, foreign policy, and the like, and pro-Japanese people and experts on Japan are discovered in order to strengthen Japan’s message to other countries and expand Japan’s diplomatic foundation by having the guests and dispatches take the initiative to spread information about the diplomatic stance, appeals, and other facets of Japan. [Participants] 5 students from Soka University, 6 students from Tokai University and 5 students from Meiji Gakuin University (Itinerary) Tuesday, February 4th [Arrival in Singapore] Wednesday, February 5th AM [Orientation] JTB Pte Ltd / JTB Asia Pacific Headquarters PM [Orientation] Embassy of Japan in Singapore [Courtesy Call] Japan Creative Centre (JCC) [City observation] Singapore city, including the Battle Box Thursday, February 6th AM [Lecture] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. PM [Observation] Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Singapore Friday, February 7th AM [Observation] Local Foundation for Education PM [School Exchange] National University of Singapore (Discussion, presentation etc.) Saturday, February 8th AM [Observation] Marina Barrage PM [Homestay] Sunday, February 9th AM [Homestay] PM [Observation] Bugis/Arab Street, Chinatown and Little India etc. Monday, February 10th AM [Observation] JTB Pte Ltd / JTB Asia Pacific Headquarters PM [Company visit] Sky Greens [Workshop] Preparation for the Reporting Session Tuesday, February 11th AM [Reporting Session] PM [Departure] View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200129005250/en/ Contact Inquiries about the program JENESYS 2019 ASEAN + Timor-Leste Project Implementing Agency JTB Kasumigaseki Operations Department Contact: Junji Mise (Mr.), Yutaka Shintani (Mr.), Takashi Komatsu (Mr.) TEL: +81-3-6737-9447 Weekdays: 9:00-17:30 (Closed on weekends and holidays) [Email] [email protected] Source : JTB Corp. KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 -- Singapore based start-up SynOption Pte Ltd this week launched its platform for electronic trading of FX Options.
This institutional platform allows investors to execute FX Options trades by requesting quotes from multiple banks on a centralised venue, thus enabling Best Execution for clients. SynOption is the first firm approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to establish and operate an organised market for nine months under the Sandbox express framework. According to a statement, the firm has also been awarded a grant by the MAS Financial Sector Development fund as a designated special project. SynOption supports MAS’ vision to make Singapore the FX trading hub in Asia by focusing on the market’s derivative segment. It intends to provide high speed connectivity to clients with lower trade rejection rates as more liquidity providers set up operations in the republic. SynOption founder, Anchal Jain said: “SynOption attempts to build a fair platform for trade execution for all participants in the niche FX Options market. “Leveraging on our experience, we are trying to create an intuitive product that will make the electronification journey easier. We intend to increase the scope of product and geographical reach as we gain more of a foothold in Singapore.” SynOption has started onboarding institutional clients based in Singapore and gained good traction. The platform has signed up top tiered banks as liquidity providers and is rapidly looking to expand its participant base in the next few months. -- BERNAMA LONDON, Jan 29 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- ClubSwan.com, the leader in membership driven financial solutions, further expands its innovative alternative banking capabilities to key global markets. As traditional financial institutions continually struggle to provide innovative and meaningful ways to bring value to individual and corporate customers and as digital assets/crypto currencies are experiencing global growth, ClubSwan.com continues to evolve to meet the efficiencies and demands that these new assets and our customers require and to which traditional banks have no answer.
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The ClubSwan membership program is now offering a 40% commission for all referrals. Now is the time to experience a truly better alternative to banking and elevate life. To inquire or enroll: https://clubswan.com/?rc=JVGOEJ23 Restrictions apply, see terms and conditions. Internet speeds are determined by your internet provider. About ClubSwan: ClubSwan is a technology-based organization partnering its lifestyle memberships with a UK regulated financial services platform. ClubSwan has partnered with Nvayo Limited, a UK-based Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated financial services institution, authorised to hold multi currency balances, make payments and issue payment cards. Nvayo does not provide any crypto services. Cryptocurrency services are not currently regulated by the FCA or any other regulator in the UK. You understand that the price or value of crypto assets can rapidly increase or decrease at any time. The risk of loss in buying, selling, holding, or investing in crypto assets can be substantial and you can lose your money. Crypto assets received in relation to cryptocurrency transactions will not be safeguarded (under the UK Electronic Money Regulations 2011) or covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. We do not make any representation regarding the advisability of transacting in cryptocurrencies. We cannot guarantee the timeliness, accurateness, or completeness of any data or information used in connection with your holding any exposure to crypto assets. ClubSwan offers additional services and support through its customer support and technology platform incorporating digital asset/currency transactions and liquidations. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200127005046/en/ Contact Glenniss Richards [email protected] Source : ClubSwan |
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