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Insurance

HDFC Life enters into partnership with YES Bank to sell insurance policies

HDFC Life on Tuesday said it has entered into a partnership with YES Bank to sell policies to the bank’s customers.

HDFC Life and YES Bank Limited entered into a corporate agency (CA) arrangement, it said in a release.

This CA arrangement will enable customers of YES Bank to avail HDFC Life’s wide range of life insurance products, which include solutions for protection, savings and investment, retirement and critical illness, it added.

“There is a huge potential for insurance coverage across life and health protection, savings and annuity products

Personal

Senator Thom Tillis speaks to FOX8 about how his personal life shapes his political goals

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Incumbent Senator Thom Tillis says he rarely publicly discussed his upbringing until the 2020 election season but points to it as what he calls a “huge contrast” between he and challenger Cal Cunningham.

“I grew up with six kids. My father, my mother didn’t get high school diplomas,” Tillis said.

Tillis says his family moved seven times before he turned 16, going wherever his parents could find work. This resulted in Tillis going to five different elementary schools and three middle schools.

“Grew up in trailer parks that are still standing,” Tillis recalled. “One in Nashville and one in Jacksonville,

Business

IIoT Blind Spots: Where are They and Do You Have Them?

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

While these areas are seeing a gradual adoption of advanced technology, they are key links in the production chain that must be integrated to realize higher levels of automation, according to a new report by PMMI Business Intelligence.

Automation is typically envisioned as robots or sensors on a machine, but automation strategies now extend beyond individual machines to encompass entire operations, and the key to linking an entire operation together is a comprehensive IIoT strategy.

Individual machines within an operation need to be prepared and designed to easily link up with a larger IIoT network, in order to implement a

Finance

LIC Housing plans to raise Rs 50,500 crore through debt securities

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Mortgage lender LIC Housing Finance will seek shareholders’ approval at its annual general meeting (AGM) on September 28 to raise up to Rs 50,500 crore. The fund raising will be done by issuing debt securities or other hybrid instruments on a private placement basis. The company plans to raise the amount in one year by issuing debt instruments in one or more tranches, till the next AGM.

In its annual report released on Wednesday, the housing finance company has

Money

Newspaper toy fund starts raising money early for a challenging holiday season

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

The Portland Press Herald Toy Fund is facing unprecedented challenges as more Maine families struggle to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic and need help bringing their children a sense of normalcy during the upcoming holidays.

The toy fund is making an early appeal for financial support and forming new partnerships with other nonprofit organizations and two additional newspapers to meet that need. The economic pressures of the pandemic come after the charity spent much of its reserve fund in recent years as donations gradually declined and need remained high, according to organizers.

Last year, the toy fund raised

Personal

DJ-tuned true wireless earphones offer personal audio profile

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Not everyone’s hearing is the same, and the new Xellence true wireless earphones account for this by offering real-time sound profile tweaking courtesy of a mobile app. The sweat-resistant buds also feature active noise cancellation, Bluetooth 5.0 signal stability and are fine tuned by renowned DJ, songwriter and producer Kygo.

That personal sound profile comes courtesy of Mimi Sound Personalization processing technology delivered via an iOS/Android companion app, which optimizes the signal in real time to tailor the sound to a user’s hearing to deliver “a brilliantly customized listening experience that also protects your hearing.”

The Xellence earphones wirelessly connect

Business

Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market 2020-2025

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market 2020

Extensive analysis of the Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market 2020 Report analyses the industry status, size, share, trends, growth opportunity, competition landscape and forecast to 2025. This report also provides data on patterns, improvements, target business sectors, limits and advancements. Furthermore, this research report categorizes the market by companies, region, type and end-user industry.

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The Global Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market 2020 report includes Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market Revenue, market Share, industry volume, and Trends, Growth aspects. Growing prevalence of Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions fuelled by the changing

Business

A Spotlight on Online Marketplaces: Adoption Rates, Driving Factors, and Dynamics

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Marketplace structures have long inspired businesses. But the digital migration paired with the web-based marketplace options available for merchants and shoppers are encouraging marketplace dynamics. Correspondingly, micro and mid-sized firms are restructuring their services with new innovative storefronts and strategies.

One collaborative study dabbed Marketplaces as Retail’s Front Door by VISA & PYMNTs interviewed around 1,100 personal and business marketplace users all over the United States to analyze the adoption of marketplaces, the most common products as well as the sending and collection of payments.

The findings revealed a mixed web of players, minor and major, doing business, and completing … Read More

Finance

Atar Capital Acquires Foodservice Packaging Manufacturer WinCup From Funds Managed by BlackRock – Press Release

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

LOS ANGELES–(Business Wire)–Atar Capital, a Los Angeles-based global private investment firm, announced today it has completed the acquisition of WinCup from funds managed by BlackRock, Inc., a global investment management firm. Headquartered in Georgia, WinCup employs nearly 1,000 people across eight manufacturing facilities that provide nationwide production and distribution of a comprehensive portfolio of traditional and biodegradable foodservice packaging products. The company is first to market with two flagship products, Phade®, an award-winning marine biodegradable, home and industrial compostable straw; and Vio®, the only biodegradable foam-based cups, lids and straws in the US and Canada. WinCup serves an impressive blue-chip

Insurance

Samoa Tourism Authority appoints Thrive as its PR agency to ramp up local marketing efforts

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

The Samoa Tourism Authority (STA) is ramping up its marketing efforts in Australia and New Zealand, appointing Thrive as its local public relations agency and launching a campaign to drive interest in future international travel to the nation.

Thrive will be supporting the rollout of the integrated campaigns in Australia and New Zealand and fostering long-term tourism growth and investment.

The Samoa Tourism Authority is preparing for international travel

Samoa has not recorded any cases of COVID-19 so far, and whilst being cautious about reopening its borders to international travel, STA CEO Fa’amatuainu Lenatai Suifua, remains optimistic about welcoming Australians

Money

Alipay parent progresses with big-money IPO

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Mobile payments giant Ant Group moved closer to launching a multi-billion dollar IPO, filing formal documents with the Shanghai Stock Exchange for one segment of its dual-listing, Reuters reported.

The company, which runs China-based payments company Alipay, submitted IPO documents to the exchange’s Science and Technology Innovation Board yesterday (22 September) after being given the green light for its plan last week.

Reuters sources estimate the company could raise $35 billion across its planned listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with the moves potentially taking place as early as next month.

Ant Group’s IPO has been speculated for the last

Personal

Personal interactions are important drivers of STEM identity in girls

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Kristen Coyne, FSU Communications
Published 2:38 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2020

As head of the educational outreach arm of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Roxanne Hughes has overseen dozens of science camps over the years, including numerous sessions of the successful SciGirls Summer Camp she co-organizes with WFSU.

In a new paper published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Hughes and her colleagues took a much closer look at one of those

Business

Why Domo Stock Popped Today

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

What happened

Shares of Domo (NASDAQ:DOMO) have popped today, up by 10% as of 12 p.m. EDT, after the company reported fiscal second-quarter earnings. Domo delivered a textbook beat-and-raise.

So what

Revenue in the fiscal second quarter came in at $51.1 million, topping the consensus estimate of $49 million. That resulted in an adjusted net loss of $10.7 million, or $0.37 per share, which was better than the $0.50 per share in adjusted net losses that analysts were expecting. Billings increased 23% to $47.6 million.

Illustration of a person getting data on a tablet

Image source: Getty Images.

“Domo was built for this new world of work where business

Finance

New York court grants IDC access to Gupta financial records from 17 international banks

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

In August, a Manhattan judge granted a secret court order giving the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) access to Gupta financial records held at more than a dozen New York banks.

The order allowed the IDC’s lawyers in New York to subpoena 17 banks the Gupta family, their associates and several connected companies had used as part of the family’s global money machine to transact in dollars.

Payment systems work in such a way that Dubai-based transactions through the branches of the same banks

Insurance

Abu Dhabi carrier Etihad Airways offers global Covid-19 insurance cover to passengers

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Abu Dhabi-based carrier Etihad Airways has introduced the Covid-19 global wellness insurance cover, it announced on September 7.

Passengers will be covered for up to EUR150,000 of medical costs and up to EUR100 a day of quarantine costs in case of a positive diagnosis for 14 days.

Part of Etihad Wellness, the airline’s new health and hygiene programme, the insurance cover will span across all guests who are diagnosed with the coronavirus infection during their trip.

All Etihad tickets, regardless of the date on which they have been booked, will include the Covid-19 insurance for those traveling until December 31,

Personal

With Madhya Pradesh bypolls drawing nearer, personal attacks on rise in campaigns

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Shivraj Singh Chouhan wearing glasses: Several ministers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and belonging to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s cabinet are involved in personal attacks. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

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Several ministers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and belonging to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s cabinet are involved in personal attacks. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

Personal attacks by politicians against each other have intensified as the by-election for 28 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh (MP), which are likely to be held with the upcoming Bihar polls in end-November, draws closer.

Though the Election Commission of India (ECI) had earlier announced that polls would be held in end-November, no dates have been announced yet.

Several ministers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and

Business

Worldwide Healthcare Business Intelligence Industry to 2026

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

InvestorPlace

7 Sin Stocks To Buy That Will Outperform the S&P 500

While the S&P 500 and a wide range of stocks continue their September slide, many investors are understandably jittery, wondering if a second market crash is coming this year. In response, they’re searching for industries that can offer more stability, but also growth and income over the coming quarters. One such group are the so-called “sin stocks,” which benefit when humans indulge in vices.Although there may be different definitions of sin stocks, these businesses include those in alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, gambling, adult entertainment, weapons and defense industries. What

Finance

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Cousins Properties, Duke Realty, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust and Four Corners Property Trust

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – September 31, 2020 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Cousins Properties Inc. CUZ, Duke Realty Corp. DRE, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust ILPT and Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. FCPT

Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

4 REIT Stocks You Can Bet On After Dismal Q2

The coronavirus pandemic and the consequent shutdowns worldwide have affected the U.S. economy and businesses, and

Insurance

How You Can Fight Indoor Air Pollution While Saving On Home Insurance

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

Americans are spending more time at home and indoors than ever before due to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. When the pandemic hit, not only did the unemployment rate skyrocket to its worst level since the Great Depression, but those who were able to work remotely started doing so in record numbers. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a stunning 31% of workers switched to working from home by early April 2020. Schools and universities quickly shut down, sending millions of students home to take classes online. With businesses from hotels to restaurants to gyms shuttering seemingly

Money

SEB dirty money problems ‘not new’, says Swedish FSA after TV show revelations

Lenore Staats 2 months ago

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s financial watchdog said on Wednesday that lender SEB’s past deficiencies regarding money-laundering were well known, after Swedish Television (SVT) aired a programme saying 8.2 billion Swedish crowns ($919 million) in suspicious funds had passed through the bank.

SVT’s allegations were based on leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which were reported by U.S. and other media on Sunday.

“The fact that there has been suspected illicit financial flows through SEB in the Baltic region is something that has been

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Samoa Tourism Authority appoints Thrive as its PR agency to ramp up local marketing efforts

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Fintech Market May Set New

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Plymouth Industrial REIT Announces Proposed Offering of 5,750,000 Shares of Common Stock

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Month: September 2020

HDFC Life enters into partnership with YES Bank to sell insurance policies

Senator Thom Tillis speaks to FOX8 about how his personal life shapes his political goals

IIoT Blind Spots: Where are They and Do You Have Them?

LIC Housing plans to raise Rs 50,500 crore through debt securities

Newspaper toy fund starts raising money early for a challenging holiday season

DJ-tuned true wireless earphones offer personal audio profile

Hotel Business Intelligence Solutions Market 2020-2025

A Spotlight on Online Marketplaces: Adoption Rates, Driving Factors, and Dynamics

Atar Capital Acquires Foodservice Packaging Manufacturer WinCup From Funds Managed by BlackRock – Press Release

Samoa Tourism Authority appoints Thrive as its PR agency to ramp up local marketing efforts

Alipay parent progresses with big-money IPO

Personal interactions are important drivers of STEM identity in girls

Why Domo Stock Popped Today

What happened

So what

New York court grants IDC access to Gupta financial records from 17 international banks

Abu Dhabi carrier Etihad Airways offers global Covid-19 insurance cover to passengers

With Madhya Pradesh bypolls drawing nearer, personal attacks on rise in campaigns

Worldwide Healthcare Business Intelligence Industry to 2026

7 Sin Stocks To Buy That Will Outperform the S&P 500

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Cousins Properties, Duke Realty, Industrial Logistics Properties Trust and Four Corners Property Trust

How You Can Fight Indoor Air Pollution While Saving On Home Insurance

SEB dirty money problems ‘not new’, says Swedish FSA after TV show revelations