Thales and Inetum Deliver Smarter Border Management at Spanish Valencia and Bilbao Airports

 • Thales and Inetum provide joint expertise to deliver greater security and convenience at the airports of Valencia and Bilbao, and before long at Fuerteventura.

• Smart accesses improve the border control process with higher agility and security.

• New system facilitates operations for the officers of the National Police

MADRID-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Thales, leader in digital security, and Inetum, European leader in digital services and solutions, provide the airports of Valencia and Bilbao with more than 45 Automatic Border Control gates (ABC Gates) leveraging facial recognition and automatic document verification. Thales is responsible for the identity verification and smart access control, while Inetum implements manual verifiers and the real-time monitoring system. Both companies collaborated on the integration and installation in the airports.

These new smart access points have already been in operation since July at Valencia and Bilbao Airports, in which passengers have already been able to verify greater agility. The system is key for National Police officers since it simplifies their operations. Fuerteventura airport is also currently in the deployment phase and will have 36 ABC Gates.

Automatic controls improve performance by providing agility, security and convenience when performing biometric identity checks inside the police databases. The officers remain in full control of operations and can proceed with extra security controls if necessary.

"This technology eases passenger management at borders by verifying the traveler’s identity and travel documents, including biometric checks. The new system ultimately speeds up the identification process," explains Juan Carlos Crespo, Inetum's Deputy General Manager for Iberia & Latam areas.

“We are proud to support the work of the National Police and AENA, by creating a safe and agile airport environment, without compromising the traveller experience,” says Jesús Sánchez Bargos, Country Director and CEO of Thales Spain.

Thales has strong international experience in smart border management at airports. Our references span 20 countries including France and Switzerland. The company is also responsible for comprehensive border control systems, including airports, ports and border crossings for multiple countries.

About Thales

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies, investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum computing – to build a confident future crucial for the development of our societies. The Group provides its customers – businesses, organisations and governments – in the defense, aeronautics, space, transport, and digital identity and security domains with solutions, services and products that help them fulfil their critical role, consideration for the individual being the driving force behind all decisions.

 

Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2020 the Group generated sales of €17 billion.

 

About Inetum, Positive digital flow:

Inetum is an agile IT services company that provides digital services and solutions, and a global group that helps companies and institutions to get the most out of digital flow. In a context of perpetual movement, where needs and usages are constantly being reinvented, the Inetum group is committed towards all these players to innovate, continue to adapt, and stay ahead. With its multi-expert profile, Inetum offers its clients a unique combination of proximity, a sectorial organisation, and solutions of industrial quality. Operating in more than 26 countries, the Group has nearly 27,000 employees and in 2019 generated revenues of €2.3 billion (pro forma)

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Vanessa Viala – Thales Digital Identity & Security

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Advanced Sterilization Products Announces Aisha Barry as President

 Barry Brings a Strong Background of Strategic Business Leadership and Technology Innovation



IRVINE, Calif. & EVERETT, Wash.-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), a global leader in infection prevention and a wholly owned operating company of Fortive Corporation (NYSE: FTV), has named Aisha Barry the new president of ASP.

“Aisha’s extensive healthcare background coupled with software and consumer products innovation will help strengthen ASP’s digital expertise, develop strategic alliances, and expand our international sales presence,” said Barbara Hulit, Sr. VP of Fortive’s Advanced Healthcare Solutions segment. “Aisha has a proven track record of developing highly effective organizations, leading to sustained growth. She will build on our current growth trajectory and advance the company’s mission to protect patients during their most critical moments.”

Aisha joins ASP from Philips, where her most recent role was Vice President and General Manager for the Patient Monitoring category. Before that, Aisha served as Vice President and General Manager of Patient Management Software for Medtronic. Other past experience includes leadership roles at John Deere and more than 12 years of marketing and product development roles at Procter & Gamble.

Aisha holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a degree in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University.

About Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP)

Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) has a long track record of designing and delivering innovative infection prevention solutions that dramatically raise the level of health care and safety for those who matter most. Our pioneering technology, global distribution and established leadership position enable us to simplify the process of buying and operating infection prevention products and services every day for thousands of medical facilities around the world. This enables our customers to focus on what they do best – preventing infection and saving lives. For more information, please visit www.asp.com.

©ASP 2021. All rights reserved.

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Amy Higgins
Director of Communications
asp-communications@asp.com

INVESTOR RELATIONS:
Griffin Whitney
Vice President, Investor Relations
Fortive Corporation
investors@fortive.com



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The LYCRA Company and ITOCHU Corporation Introduce COOLMAX® and THERMOLITE® EcoMade Fibers Made from 100% Textile Waste

 WILMINGTON, Del.-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The LYCRA Company, a global leader in fiber and textile solutions for the apparel industry, is pleased to announce the launch of its first performance offerings made from 100% textile waste. COOLMAX® and THERMOLITE® EcoMade fibers made from textile waste are the result of a strategic collaboration between The LYCRA Company and ITOCHU Corporation, a general trading company with strength in consumer-related sectors, including the textile business. The new offerings pair the brand equity and performance attributes of these leading cooling and warming brands with the sustainability benefits of textile waste, thus helping address a critical industry need.

 “We are pleased to announce our alliance with ITOCHU in helping to address textile waste, which represents a substantial sustainability challenge as the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is sent to landfills or incinerated every second1,” said Julien Born, chief commercial officer for The LYCRA Company. “This collaboration exemplifies the synergistic approach we have to develop products and technologies that support a more sustainable future for our vast global customer base.” This is the first of several innovations that The LYCRA Company is working on in textile and garment recycling. Laying the groundwork for a more circular future is one of the key objectives of The LYCRA Company’s Planet Agenda Sustainability platform.

Integrating textile waste technology with COOLMAX® and THERMOLITE® fibers provides consumers with the performance attributes they seek, while making these industry-leading fibers in a new and responsible way. A unique depolymerization and refining process is used to convert textile waste, which consists of scraps from garment manufacturers, into fibers with properties comparable to virgin polyester. The new fibers are available in filament and staple forms, suitable for common textile processes and insulations batting uses.

The industry’s preeminent cooling and warming performance solutions, COOLMAX® and THERMOLITE® fibers, have been made from recycled raw materials such as recycled PET bottles for many years. The company will continue to offer these products in parallel with those made from textile waste.

These new products can be purchased from The LYCRA Company, except in Japan where ITOCHU will be responsible for sales and marketing. A variety of mills have access to the new offerings and will shortly begin to develop fabrics with them.

For additional information on COOLMAX® and THERMOLITE® fibers made from textile waste, visit coolmax.com and thermolite.com.

1 “A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future,” Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Jan. 12, 2017, p.37.

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/publications/A-New-Textiles-Economy_Full-Report_Updated_1-12-17.pdf

About The LYCRA Company

The LYCRA Company innovates and produces fiber and technology solutions for the apparel and personal care industries. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, The LYCRA Company is recognized worldwide for its innovative products, technical expertise, and unmatched marketing support. The LYCRA Company owns leading consumer and trade brands: LYCRA®, LYCRA HyFit®, LYCRA® T400®, COOLMAX®, THERMOLITE®, ELASPAN®, SUPPLEX®, and TACTEL®. The LYCRA Company’s legacy stretches back to 1958 with the invention of the original spandex yarn, LYCRA® fiber. Today, The LYCRA Company focuses on adding value to its customers’ products by developing unique innovations designed to meet the consumer’s need for comfort and lasting performance. For more information, visit www.thelycracompany.com.

About ITOCHU

ITOCHU, one of the largest general trading company in Japan, has evolved and grown over 160 years. With approximately 100 bases in 62 countries, ITOCHU, one of the leading sogo shosha, is engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textile, machinery, metals, minerals, energy, chemicals, food, general products, realty, information and communications technology, and finance, as well as business investment in Japan and overseas.

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Annual Cyber Protection Week survey reveals post-pandemic paradox: more solutions do not bring better protection

  Despite 80% of organizations running up to 10 different protection and cybersecurity solutions simultaneously, more than 50% of them experienced downtime from data loss last year

Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today released the findings of its second annual Cyber Protection Week survey, which uncovered a dangerous disconnect between the need for organizations to keep their data protected and the ineffective investments they’ve made trying to reach that goal.

While 2020 saw companies purchase new systems to enable and secure remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, those investments are not paying off. The global survey discovered that 80% of companies now run as many as 10 solutions simultaneously for their data protection and cybersecurity needs – yet more than half of those organizations suffered unexpected downtime last year because of data loss.

The findings from Acronis’ annual survey, which polled 4,400 IT users and professionals in 22 countries across six continents, dispel the myth that simply adding more solutions will solve cybersecurity and data protection challenges. Not only does investing in more solutions not deliver more protection, in many cases trying to manage protection across multiple solutions creates greater complexity and less visibility for the IT team, which increases risk.

“This year’s Cyber Protection Week survey clearly illustrates that more solutions do not deliver greater protection, as using separate tools to address individual types of exposure is complicated, inefficient, and costly,” said Serguei “SB” Beloussov, Founder and CEO of Acronis. “These findings confirm our belief that the smarter approach is cyber protection, which unifies data protection, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in one.”

Knowledge gap contributes to IT challenges

Complicating matters, there is a significant gap in awareness among users and IT pros of what IT and cybersecurity capabilities are available to them, which can cause them to lose valuable time, money, and security.

    68% of IT users and 20% of IT professionals would not know if their data had been modified without their knowledge because their solution makes determining that kind of tampering difficult.

    43% of IT users don’t know if their anti-malware stops zero-day threats because their solution doesn’t make that information easily available. Having easy access to such cybersecurity insights is critical to ensuring data is protected.

    A shocking 10% of IT pros don’t know if their organization is subject to data privacy regulations. If those responsible for ensuring data privacy don’t know they are culpable, they cannot implement strategies or evaluate the solutions needed to address the requirements. That ignorance puts the business at tremendous risk of major fines for potential compliance violations in 2021.

For anyone using multiple solutions to solve their IT and cybersecurity needs, the lack of transparency into such information only gets worse. Not only must they remember which solution provides a particular data point, they are constantly switching between consoles to find the details they need – leading to inefficiencies and missed insights.

Acronis has long recognized the cost, efficiency, and security challenges that arise from using multiple solutions, which is why the company pioneered the field of cyber protection, integrating cutting-edge cybersecurity, best-of-breed backup, and endpoint management in a single solution. Managed service providers can build their IT services on Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, while businesses can gain the same unified capabilities with the company’s on-premises solution, Acronis Cyber Protect 15.

Individuals’ lax approach to protection

The survey also revealed a staggeringly lax approach to data protection among IT users.

    83% of IT users spent more time on their devices last year, yet only half of them took extra steps to protect those devices

    33% admit to not updating their devices until at least a week after being notified of a patch

    90% of IT users reported performing backups, yet 73% have irretrievably lost data at least once, suggesting that they don’t know how to back up or recover properly

The efforts of individuals to protect their data aren’t keeping pace with threats, which is likely due to false assumptions (such as believing Microsoft 365 backs up their data) or a reliance on automatic solutions.

Individual IT users can gain the same integrated cyber protection as MSPs and IT professionals with Acronis True Image 2021, the first personal cyber protection solution that unites AI-enhanced anti-malware and award-winning backup in one.

Action items for Cyber Protection Week

The challenges of protecting and securing data, applications, and systems will continue to grow in the post-pandemic world. To ensure that data is protected, Acronis recommends five simple steps:

    Create backups of important data. Keep multiple copies of your backups, with one local copy for fast recovery and one off-site in the cloud to guarantee recovery if disaster destroys your copies.

    Update your operating systems and applications. Outdated systems and apps lack the security fixes that stop cybercriminals from gaining access. Regular patching is required to avoid exploits.
    Avoid suspicious emails, links, and attachments. Most malware infections are the result of social engineering techniques that trick unsuspecting individuals into opening infected email attachments or clicking on links to websites that host malware.
    Install antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-ransomware software while enabling automatic updates so your system is protected against malware.
    Consider adopting a single cyber protection solution to have the central management and integrated protection needed to meet today’s IT requirements.

 

About Acronis

Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions. With award-winning AI-based antimalware and blockchain-based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on-premises – at a low and predictable cost.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,500 employees in 33 locations in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, including 100% of the Fortune 1000, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages.

Contacts

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Krishika Mahesh: Krishika@matrixdubai.com

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Visa Expands Global Money Movement Capabilities Beyond the Card with Visa Direct Payouts

 Simplifies SMB and consumer payments for corporate banks, remitters and fintechs

SAN FRANCISCO-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visa (NYSE:V) today announced the expansion of Visa Direct, a real-time1 push payments platform, with the introduction of Visa Direct Payouts. The new solution allows Visa’s clients and partners around the world to use a single point of connection to push payments to eligible cards for domestic payouts, and eligible cards and/or accounts for cross-border payments.

“As digital commerce accelerates, Visa is innovating to give financial institutions, governments, individuals and businesses new ways to pay and get paid beyond the card,” said Bill Sheley, SVP, Global Head, Visa Direct, Visa. “The launch of Visa Direct Payouts marks an important milestone in Visa’s expansion of its account-to-account capabilities to now reach an additional 2 billion bank accounts around the world. Backed by the operating scale and performance of VisaNet, the solution integrates Visa’s acquisition of Earthport to transform how Visa’s clients deploy and optimize global money movement programs.”

Flexible Visa Direct Payouts APIs reduce complexities often associated with managing and sending money across multiple networks and intermediaries worldwide. The solution provides operational simplicity to move money globally through a single connection to VisaNet, enabling financial institutions, fintechs, remittance providers and corporate banks to capture new payment flows for growth and value creation. Visa Direct Payouts supports real-time2 domestic and cross-border person-to-person (P2P), business-to-small business (B2SB) and business-to-consumer (B2C) use cases, such as insurance disbursements, marketplace seller payouts, providing workers faster access to their earnings, as well as remittances.

Visa’s clients and partners around the world are launching new money-movement programs enabled by Visa Direct Payouts.

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited is enhancing its digital International Transfer services for its retail banking customers

MoneyGram is launching an enhanced money-movement optionality for its customers who are sending and receiving money to loved ones across borders

KyckGlobal, a Visa fintech partner, enables a variety of B2SB and B2C use cases through its payments engine, including insurance claims payouts, fast funds settlement for SMB marketplaces and quick access to earned wages for independent contractors and hourly workers

Visa Direct Payouts Client and Partner Quotes

“With 152% year-over-year cross-border digital transactions growth for MoneyGram Online in 2020 and an impressive 650% transaction growth for Visa Direct in the fourth quarter3, consumer demand for our digital P2P payment capabilities continues to skyrocket,“ said Alex Holmes, MoneyGram Chairman and CEO. “Our continued expansion with Visa Direct is an important component of our customer-centric strategy to provide a streamlined, frictionless customer journey and real-time transfer capabilities to millions across the globe who rely on our essential service.”

“Our clients work with a diverse set of payees, including contractors and gig economy workers, each with different payment needs, such as a commission payment, expense reimbursement or insurance claim payout,” said Ashish Bahl, KyckGlobal CEO and Founder. “With Visa Direct, we are able to ensure our customers’ clients are paid quickly and securely wherever they access funds, which is more important than ever in today’s economic environment.”

With the addition of Visa Direct Payouts, Visa Direct now provides multi-rail access to 5 billion cards and accounts combined across more than 200 geographies, supporting 160 currencies, connecting to 16 card-based networks4, 65 domestic Automated Clearing House (ACH) schemes, seven Real-Time Payment (RTP) networks and five payment gateways. For Visa Direct transactions, Visa offers value-added services, including security and tokenization, bringing peace of mind for SMBs and consumers as they pay and get paid, and move money internationally.

For more information and to connect with our team, please visit the Visa Direct Payouts page.

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa, visa.com/blog and @VisaNews.

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1 Actual fund availability varies by receiving financial institution, receiving account type, region, and whether the transaction is domestic or cross-border.

2 Actual fund availability varies by receiving financial institution, receiving account type, region, and whether the transaction is domestic or cross-border.

3 Source: https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moneygram-international-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-5

4 Visa offers the Visa Push Payment Gateway Service to enable push-to-card capabilities for non-Visa cards in the U.S and Canada

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Contacts

Aida Hadzibegovic

ahadzibe@visa.com

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Orange Romania Deploys MATRIXX Software to Deliver Country’s First All-Digital Mobile Brand

 FOSTER CITY, Calif.-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- MATRIXX Software, a global leader in 5G monetization for the communications industry, today announced it has partnered with Orange Romania to provide its digital commerce platform to YOXO, Orange’s first all-digital mobile brand in the region. YOXO, built in just one year with a team of 15 people, has experienced impressive traction in the market, boasting a 90% customer recommendation rate, 3x sales growth and an NPS score triple that of the average mobile operator.

Officially launched in September 2020, YOXO was first conceived by Orange Romania as a way to reach a burgeoning, emerging customer segment comprised of young, cost-conscious digital natives who shun the idea of long-term contract commitments. With a goal to be first to market, Orange selected the MATRIXX Digital Commerce Platform to build a flexible, agile service capable of delivering real-time innovation to meet ever-shifting consumer demand.

“At Orange Romania, we were looking to do much more than keep our status as the number one telco operator in a highly competitive market. We wanted to create the kind of service offering that drives loyalty and a sense of shared community with our customers,” said Anca Veluda, head of digital for Orange Romania. “The MATRIXX platform made it possible for us to build YOXO in a way that harnesses the power of innovation and agile experimentation, with a focus on delivering immediate value for our subscribers when and how they want it.”

The MATRIXX Digital Commerce Platform enables Orange Romania to deliver a simple, inexpensive and easy-to-understand mobile experience. YOXO customers can manage every part of their mobile service straight from the app, including sign-up, order and activation of SIM. The app also makes it easy to change subscriptions as frequently as every month, manage payments and access customer support. YOXO is able to enhance features as needed, based on customer feedback, ensuring the mobile experience keeps pace with its dynamic target market.

“We’re honored to be a part of Orange Romania’s new market leadership and to continue to support YOXO as it accelerates its product cycles to meet consumer demand in real time,” said Glo Gordon, MATRIXX CEO. “Our platform provides a proven model to help Orange become more agile, and build new digital services quickly and effectively, thereby enabling it to adapt to changing markets faster than the competition.”

For more details about YOXO’s creation and launch, read the full case study.

About MATRIXX Software

MATRIXX Software is the global leader in 5G monetization for the communications industry. Serving many of the world’s largest operator groups, regional carriers, and emerging digital service providers, MATRIXX delivers a cloud native digital commerce solution that enables unmatched commercial and operational agility. Unifying IT & networks, MATRIXX delivers a network-grade converged charging system (CCS), enabling efficient hyper-scaling of infrastructure to support consumer services, wholesale and enterprise marketplaces. Through its relentless commitment to product excellence and customer success, MATRIXX empowers businesses to harness network assets and business agility to succeed at web scale.

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Jennifer Kyriakakis
mediainquiry@matrixx.com




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Study Shows House Wellness Foods’ Breakthrough Feed LP20® Can Advance the Potential of Rivers and Seas to Feed Our Emerging World

 TOKYO-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vietnam is a nation that has seen its share of turmoil and suffering over the past century, and emerged from it with strength, enthusiasm, dedicated to progress and self-sufficiency. Over the past 50 years its participation on the global stage has steadily risen, with ever-increased attention to commerce, health, and education.

A recently released study on the efficacy of House Wellness Foods’ Feed LP20® in combating piscine disease factors can be seen as a glimmer of light along the pathway to Vietnam’s bright future.

As much as 35% of Vietnam’s aquacultural activity is built around river farming of the juvenile striped catfish [Pangasianodon hypophthalmus], making it the world’s largest producer of this nutritious staple, not only for its own consumption but for export to China, Europe, and elsewhere.

Vietnam’s story is one of many that expose the dual edge of farming to emerging populations. It’s been the keystone of civilization’s advancement since the dawn of humankind, but where resources are limited and need is great, farming’s potential hazards become viciously clear. Overstocked waters turn hazardous to human life due to excessive waste production and a rise in bacteria, parasites, fungi, and viruses. Overstocked waters produce fish that are increasingly malnourished, enervated, injured, and unable to reproduce.

The reflex response to this blight has been the use of antibiotics to keep weakened fish populations alive. Apart from expense, before long, disease-inducing agents mutate to resist the antibiotic, which, in turn, leads to the use of more varied antibiotics, causing a dangerous downward spiral. All the while antibiotics are entering the food chain and turning up in the human metabolic system to unpredictable, deleterious effect. Promise quickly turns to peril for the farmer, for the consumer, and for the future of vital aquaculture.

Feed LP20® can reverse this tide…

The details of this new study show its dramatic impact. In summary, researchers fed test stocks a diet supplemented with heat-killed Lactobacillus plantarum, strain L-137, the active ingredient in Feed LP20®. Key to the high effectiveness of Feed LP20® is the heat-killing process. It fully utilizes the strain’s characteristics, an area where House Wellness Foods holds an unparalleled position of authority based upon years of peer-reviewed testing and research, and continuous refinement of the development process. Heat treatment hardens bacillary cell walls and fixes their genetic material. Not only does this enable HK-L137 to resist initial breakdown in the upper gastric system, but it can be cooked, processed, stored, and administered in an aquatic environment without compromising potency. Further, both its ability to stimulate immune cytokine interleukin 12 and its shelf life far surpass that of any living lactobacillus supplement.

House Wellness Foods and the introduction of immunobiotics

Immunobiotics promote health by triggering immune responses in the mucosa. House Wellness Foods, one of Japan’s most trusted names in food production, began its exploration of immunobiotics and their ability to bolster human immune response, support liver function, and ameliorate the causes of chronic disease over three decades ago, and the culmination of their intensive research and meticulous development was their flagship Immuno-LP20®, with its active component of 20% heat-treated Lactobacillus plantarum L-137 (HK-L137). This potent lactobacillus follows a dual course on assimilation. It initiates production of signal molecule IL-12 and IFN-β cells — the latter being the most important single cytokine responsible for inhibiting viral multiplication; and it subsequently stimulates T cell activity and the production of both NK and cytotoxic T (CTL) effector cells, boosting innate immunity and fostering antibody creation as an adjunct to the adaptive immune response.

House followed the worldwide success of Immuno-LP20®, with the development of Feed LP20®, an alternative to antibiotics, and to the costly, unreliable, and lengthy process of cultivating disease-resistant strains of livestock. The overarching principle of immunobiotic therapy in both land-based and aquatic livestock is that the power to fight disease already exists within every living cell of the organism. Prior to the present study, Feed LP20® proved its remarkable effectiveness in other aquatic stock, including white leg shrimp and Nile tilapia. It recently began marketing in the EU as a complementary feed for poultry, swine, and salmonid.

The proof is in the food chain

The study shows that juvenile striped catfish fed HK-L137-supplemented diets exhibited higher final weight and specific growth rate than controlled stock given ordinary feed. The fish showed higher survival rate, longer life, better feed conversion ratios, weight gain, better protein efficiency ratios, and increased reproductive capacity. Further, a test sub-group was administered a bacterial challenge mirroring a real-life scenario in Vietnamese river farms of their most devastating bacterial threat, Bacillary Necrosis Disease (BNP), caused by the bacterial agent Edwardsiella ictaluri. Part of the test group was injected with this agent, and in every case the cumulative mortality of HK L-137-supplemented groups was lower than the group fed control diet.

Fitter fish, more successful farming, greater financial stability — all of this originating from the power of Feed LP20®, comprising 20% HK-L137, to sustain health through enhanced immunity at the very cellular level. The new study shows the promise of House Wellness Foods’ Breakthrough Feed LP20®, and points to the future of a shared world that is often fragile, yet always filled with hope.

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Contacts

Satoru Onoda

Onoda_Satoru@house-wf.co.jp

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DC Secretary Announces Annual Determinations Committees Outcome

 NEW YORK -Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DC Administration Services, Inc. has today announced the composition of five regional Determinations Committees (DCs), effective from April 29, 2021.

Voting Dealers (for all regions):...

     
Voting Non-Dealers (for all regions):

Bank of America N.A.

     
AllianceBernstein L.P.

Barclays Bank plc

     
Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P.

BNP Paribas

     
Citadel LLC

Citibank, N.A.

     
Elliott Management Corporation

Credit Suisse International

     
Pacific Investment Management Co., LLC

Deutsche Bank AG

     
 

Goldman Sachs International

     
 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

     
 

          
Voting Dealer for the Americas, EMEA, and Japan
Determination Committees:

     
 

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.

     
The process for selecting DC members is specified in the DC rules. The DC rules, along with more information about the Determinations Committees and what they do can be found at the Determinations Committees website: https://www.cdsdeterminationscommittees.org/.

Other inquires may be directed to Mark Ferraris at mark.ferraris@citadelspv.com

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Contacts
Mark Ferraris

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Andersen Global Strengthens Central Asian Presence with Kyrgyzstan-Based Law Firm

 SAN FRANCISCO-Wednesday 31 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Andersen Global enters a Collaboration Agreement with Kyrgyzstan-based law firm Satarov, Askarov & Partners, extending its geographic coverage in Central Asia.

Satarov, Askarov & Partners, founded in 2010, specializes in international arbitration and foreign investment, providing services to individuals, local businesses, foreign companies and government institutions. With an office in Bishkek, the full-service law firm offers a wide range of commercial legal services including corporate M&A, debt finance, natural resources, anti-monopoly and competition, taxation and tax litigation, international trade, customs and criminal law.

“High-quality client services will always be a high priority,” Managing Director Anvar Askarov said. “Our extensive experience and knowledge of the market enable us to deliver best-in-class solutions, and we are committed to expanding our capabilities continuously in this ever-growing environment. Our collaboration with Andersen Global enhances our growth and ensures clients are provided seamless services at the local and international levels.”

“Satarov, Askarov & Partners provides broad coverage in one of Central Asia’s key markets,” Andersen Global Chairman and Andersen CEO Mark Vorsatz said. “Their commitment to stewardship and transparency has resulted in long-standing client relationships. They complement our team in the region, and we look forward to strengthening our working relationship with Anvar and his team.”

Andersen Global is an international association of legally separate, independent member firms comprised of tax and legal professionals around the world. Established in 2013 by U.S. member firm Andersen Tax LLC, Andersen Global now has more than 7,000 professionals worldwide and a presence in over 263 locations through its member firms and collaborating firms.

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Contacts

Megan Tsuei

Andersen Global

415-764-2700

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Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C, Ethiopia, to Drive Digital Transformation with Beyontec Suite

 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C, (ELiG) a leading composite insurer in Ethiopia, providing innovative life and non-life insurance products in the country has signed up Beyontec Suite, a core insurance solution from Beyontec, to transform its operations to digital.

Insurers in Ethiopia are rapidly adopting new technology to drive efficiencies through increased digitisation and automation of manual processes such as policy administration, claims, payments, and inter-company transactions. By adopting Beyontec Suite, and the Beyontec portal solutions, Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C company will soon be able to offer the full range of its products online, while managing higher quality risks and improved customer engagements.

Speaking on the occasion, Eto. Shimeles Giorgis, CEO of Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C commented, “As the fastest growing company in delivering innovative insurance products and services to millions of customers in Ethiopia, we want to be agile and responsive to the customers’ needs and be in a position to offer superior services backed by a digital framework of business processes. Beyontec’s proven products and superior service quality will put ELiG in the right trajectory for revenue acceleration and growth.”

Beyontec is a US-based insurance technology solutions provider serving leading insurers in the MENA region for more than a decade. Beyontec Suite, the shrink-wrapped, cloud-based core insurance solution meets the current and growing needs of the insurance business. Beyontec's deep industry experience working with international insurers brings with it the global best practices, and adds predictability, reliability and foresight in to client engagements.

To secure the ELiG account, Beyontec partnered with Moti Engineering, pioneer and largest information and communication technology solutions provider in Ethiopia, serving 100% Banks and Financial Institutions in Ethiopia. Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Abdulhamid Mohammed, Managing Director, Moti Engineering said, “With Beyontec’s expertise in transforming IT in Insurance, we are confident that this partnership will accelerate the modernization of insurers in Ethiopia and strengthen our digital portfolios.”

Mr. Vivek Sethia, CEO and Co-founder of Beyontec Solutions had this to say about winning the ELiG business, “We are extremely pleased to be chosen as the technology partner by Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C. Our client-centric approach enables us to focus on the immediate and future requirements of Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C. Beyontec Suite, our flagship core administrative solution, is fully equipped to transform ELiG’s business operations from legacy to digital, and our portal solutions will help them expand the business online, and be fully compliant.”

With a new digital core, supported with online portals, Ethio Life and General Insurance S.C can now look to improve its competitive advantage and speed-to-market, while gaining data insights for introducing new insurance products and services in the market.

About Beyontec Solutions

Beyontec Solutions is a global insurance solution provider, addressing all aspects of insurance business including general insurance, takaful, life insurance, medical insurance and insurance broking. The Beyontec Suite is a workflow driven solution designed to provide cost-effective solutions by focusing on customers’ requirements and business challenges. The diverse insurance experience and knowledge has enabled Beyontec to create solutions that incorporate the world’s best insurance practices. Supported by experienced insurance professionals and support centres equipped with secure infrastructure, they provide the best service and support to global insurance companies. Learn more at www.beyontec.com.

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Contacts

Beyontec Solutions

Dimple Fernandez

Phone: +9714 5148451

Email: media@beyontec.com

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GGPoker Partners With Legendary deadmau5 For Record-Breaking $150M GG Spring Festival

 Fun-filled tournament series to guarantee massive $150,000,000 in prizes over 330+ events and run from April 4 through April 25

DUBLIN-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GGPoker today reveals that it will partner with world-famous electronic music producer deadmau5 for the poker room’s upcoming GG Spring Festival tournament series.

The Canadian superstar will kick the festival off in style by hosting an opening night party on April 3, which includes an exclusive music set streamed on GGPoker.TV and a $100K Freeroll Houseparty. GGPoker players will also have the opportunity to play with - and knock out - the artist in his own $10K GG Legends Bounty feat. deadmau5 on April 10.

The full GG Spring Festival will guarantee at least $150 million in prizes, the highest series guarantee amount in online poker history. The tournament series runs from April 4 through April 25, and includes more than 300 individual events, with buy-ins set at ‘Low’, ‘Medium’ and ‘High’, designed to suit every bankroll.

GG Spring Festival headline events include:

Main Event-H - No Limit Hold’em - $1,500 buy-in - $10M Guaranteed

Super Millions Main Event-H - No Limit Hold’em - $10,300 buy-in - $10M Guaranteed

Headliner-M - No Limit Hold’em - $400 buy-in - $2.5M Guaranteed

In total, 39 festival events boast a prize pool guarantee of $1M or higher. The festival will also include community-focused special events and streamed DJs/artists.

“This is going to be the biggest online poker event of all time and will blow a lot of people’s minds,” said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Ambassador. “From the deadmau5-hosted launch party and other festival elements to the massive headline event guarantees, it’s a true poker party from start to finish, and I can’t wait for it to get underway!”

Some of the most exciting GG Spring Festival final table action will be broadcast on GGPoker.TV, with shows scheduled on April 6, April 20 and April 27.

New GGPoker players are eligible to claim the poker room’s Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion and automatically join GGPoker’s Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes on offer.

For further details on the GG Spring Festival, please visit: https://www.contents.ggnetwork-contents.com/ggsf-2021

About GGPoker: GGPoker is one of the world’s leading online poker rooms, with a global player base. It offers a range of innovative games and features such as the patented Rush & Cash poker, All-In or Fold, Flip & Go, Spin & Gold, integrated staking platform, SnapCam video messaging, the ability to squeeze your hole cards, PokerCraft, and Smart HUD, all designed to enhance gaming experiences and make poker more fun than ever. In 2020, GGPoker hosted WSOP tournaments, including the world record-breaking WSOP Online main event and the WSOP 2020 Main Event.

Find out more about GGPoker at GGPoker.com and on Facebook and Twitter.

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Contacts

Paul Burke at press@ggpoker.com.

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Video Introducing System for Certification of Japanese Cuisine Cooking Skills Released by TOW Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), the Certification Application/Management Body

 TOKYO-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TOW Co., Ltd.:

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[https://tow.co.jp/certification/]

Follow this link for a documentary that demonstrates the value of the certification system through the stories of foreign chefs attempting the test for Gold Certification, the system’s highest outlined standard.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has established Guidelines for the Certification of Cooking Skills for Japanese Cuisine in Foreign Countries as of April 2016.

This system lays out specific standards that private bodies may use to recognize foreign chefs who have acquired given levels of knowledge and cooking skills necessary for the preparation of Japanese cuisine, to help ensure that the appeals of Japanese food and dietary culture, as well as of Japanese agricultural and marine products, are appropriately and effectively communicated throughout the world.*

And through it, the private sector is able to position itself as a driving force in promoting efforts to certify Japanese cuisine cooking skills, increasing the number of certified individuals, and fostering further growth in foreign chefs who have acquired the appropriate knowledge and skills for preparation of Japanese cuisine, all with the ultimate goal of further strengthening the global reputation of Japanese food and dietary culture and expanding consumption of Japanese agricultural and marine products.

To that end, TOW Co., Ltd. is actively engaged as the Application/Management Body of the Certification System. As of March 2021, it has approbated 11 certifying bodies, which have in turn recognized 14 individual chefs as meeting Gold Certification standards, 187 meeting Silver, and 389 meeting Bronze.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a significant blow to the food service industry worldwide, TOW Co., Ltd. remains committed to carrying out its missions, and to encouraging all foreign chefs aspiring to obtain the knowledge and skills to properly prepare Japanese cuisine. It is our hope that the creation and sharing of this video introducing the System for Certification of Cooking Skills for Japanese Cuisine will help fulfill those goals.

*Certification standards

Gold

Those who have approximately two years practical experience in a Japanese restaurant located in Japan whose head chef is Japanese and are deemed to have acquired knowledge and skills specified.

Knowledge and Skills to be Acquired

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture, Japanese foods, eating style, Japanese sake and tea.

Knowledge regarding hygiene management

Types and prevention of food poisoning, clothing, handling of food ingredients, cleaning and sterilization of cooking utensils and equipment, food ingredients and foods that require heating treatment.

Techniques

How to use Japanese cooking utensils and equipment, how to select food ingredients, how to cut and peel food ingredients, procedures and hours required for cooking, heat level/mechanism of application of heat, how to make dashi (Japanese soup stock), blending ratios of seasonings, presentation, preservation method, preparation of menu.

Omotenashi

Words, greeting, consideration, manners, how to place meals.

Silver

Those who took lessons and acquired knowledge and skills regarding Japanese cuisine specified approximately one year at any cooking schools located in and out of their own country and then graduated from said school.

OR

Those who have approximately one year practical experience in a Japanese restaurant located in Japan whose head chef is Japanese and are deemed to have acquired knowledge and skills specified.

Knowledge and Skills to be Acquired

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture, Japanese foods, eating style

Knowledge regarding hygiene management

Types and prevention of food poisoning, clothing, handling of food ingredients, cleaning and sterilization of cooking utensils and equipment, food ingredients and foods that require heating treatment.

Techniques

How to use Japanese cooking utensils and equipment, how to select food ingredients, how to cut and peel food ingredients, blending ratios of seasonings, procedures and hours required for cooking, heat level/mechanism of application of heat, how to make dashi (Japanese soup stock), presentation, preservation method.

Omotenashi

Manners, how to place meals

Bronze

Those who received training regarding knowledge and skills specified in short-term sessions etc. organized by any Japanese cooking school and/or private bodies located in and out of their own countries and then passed the examination conducted by the Certification Body.

Knowledge and Skills to be Acquired

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture

Knowledge regarding Japanese dietary culture

Knowledge regarding hygiene management

Prevention of food poisoning, clothing, handling of food ingredients, cleaning and sterilization of cooking utensils and equipment, food ingredients and foods that require heating treatment.

Techniques

How to use Japanese cooking utensils and equipment, how to select food ingredients, how to cut and peel food ingredients, blending ratios of seasonings, procedures and hours required for cooking, presentation, preservation method.

Omotenashi

Manners

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Contacts

Japanese Cuisine Cooking Skill Certification Application/Management Body:

TOW Co., Ltd. Secretariat

Aya Hamasuna

Mail: nihonshoku.ginou@tow.co.jp

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VFMCRP and Cara Therapeutics announce European Medicines Agency has accepted to review the Marketing Authorization Application for difelikefalin

  • Companies have successfully submitted the EU regulatory application for marketing authorization for difelikefalin

• If approved, difelikefalin injection will be the first therapy available in Europe for treatment of pruritus associated with chronic kidney disease in hemodialysis patients


ST.GALLEN, Switzerland & STAMFORD, Conn.-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Regulatory News:

Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) and Cara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CARA) today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) accepted to review the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for difelikefalin injection for the treatment of pruritus associated with chronic kidney disease in hemodialysis patients. The EMA will review the application under the centralized marketing authorization procedure.

The EMA filing is supported by positive clinical data from the two pivotal phase-III trials KALM-1 and KALM-2, as well as supportive data from an additional 32 clinical studies. If approved, difelikefalin would receive marketing authorization in all member states of the European Union (EU), as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. EMA’s decision on the EU MAA is expected Q2-2022.

“Following the US FDA’s acceptance and priority review for the New Drug Application for difelikefalin at the beginning of March 2021, this is another major step forward on our mission to help kidney patients around the world lead better, healthier lives,” commented Stefan Schulze, CEO of Vifor Pharma Group. “Together with our partner Cara Therapeutics, we remain focused on making this innovative therapy available in Europe, if approved, for patients with chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, a condition that has been historically underdiagnosed and undertreated.”

“The acceptance of the EU regulatory application for difelikefalin marks another major milestone towards our goal of bringing this first-in-class therapeutic to the significant number of hemodialysis patients worldwide with chronic intractable pruritus,” said Derek Chalmers, Ph.D., D.Sc., President and Chief Executive Officer of Cara Therapeutics. “We look forward to working closely with our partner, Vifor Pharma, through the EMA review process and in preparation for commercial launch across European territories, if approved.”

About Vifor Pharma Group
Vifor Pharma Group is a global pharmaceuticals company. It aims to become the global leader in iron deficiency, nephrology and cardio-renal therapies. The company is a partner of choice for pharmaceuticals and innovative patient-focused solutions. Vifor Pharma Group strives to help patients around the world with severe and chronic diseases lead better, healthier lives. The company develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for precision patient care. Vifor Pharma Group holds a leading position in all its core business activities and consists of the following companies: Vifor Pharma and Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (a joint company with Fresenius Medical Care). Vifor Pharma Group is headquartered in Switzerland, and listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX Swiss Exchange, VIFN, ISIN: CH0364749348).

For more information, please visit viforpharma.com.

About Cara Therapeutics
Cara Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing new chemical entities designed to alleviate pruritus by selectively targeting peripheral kappa opioid receptors, or KORs. Cara is developing a novel and proprietary class of product candidates, led by KORSUVA™ (CR845/difelikefalin), a first-in-class KOR agonist that targets the body’s peripheral nervous system, as well as certain immune cells. In two Phase 3 trials, KORSUVA injection has demonstrated statistically significant reductions in itch intensity and concomitant improvement in quality of life measures in hemodialysis patients with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus (CKD-aP). Oral KORSUVA™ has successfully completed a Phase 2 trial for the treatment of pruritus in patients with CKD and is currently in Phase 2 trials in atopic dermatitis, primary biliary cholangitis and notalgia paresthetica patients with moderate-to-severe pruritus.

About Chronic Kidney Disease-associated Pruritus (CKD-aP)
CKD-aP is an intractable systemic itch condition that occurs with high frequency and intensity in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis. Pruritus has also been reported in patients with stage III-V CKD who are not on dialysis. The majority of dialysis patients (approximately 60 to 70%) report pruritus, with 30 to 40% reporting moderate or severe pruritus.1,2,3 Recent data from the ITCH National Registry Study showed that among those with pruritus, approximately 59% experienced symptoms daily or nearly daily for more than a year. Given its association with CKD/ESRD, most afflicted patients will continue to have symptoms for months or years, with currently employed antipruritic treatments, such as antihistamines and corticosteroids, unable to provide consistent, adequate relief. Moderate-to-severe chronic pruritus has repeatedly been shown to directly decrease quality of life, contribute to symptoms that impair quality of life (such as poor sleep quality), and is associated with depression.4 CKD-aP is also an independent predictor of mortality and the risk for hospitalization among hemodialysis patients.

Forward-looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Examples of these forward-looking statements include statements concerning the potential regulatory approval of difelikefalin solution for injection and the potential timeline for EMA review and approval of the MAA and the potential of difelikefalin solution for injection to be a therapeutic option for CKD-aP in dialysis dependent patients. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks are described more fully in Cara's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk Factors" section of Cara's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2020 and its other documents subsequently filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Except to the extent required by law, Cara undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

References:

1 Pisoni RL, et al. Pruritus in haemodialysis patients: international results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2006; 21:3495-3505.
2 Ramakrishnan K, et al. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of end-stage renal disease patients with self-reported pruritus symptoms. International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease. 2014; 7: 1-12.
3 Sukul et al. Self-reported Pruritus and Clinical, Dialysis-Related, and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients. Kidney Med. 2020 Nov 21;3(1):42-53.
4 Mathur VS, et al. A longitudinal study of Uremic Pruritus in hemodialysis patients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010; 5(8):1410-1419.

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Contacts

Contact and further information:
Media Relations
Nathalie Ponnier
Global Head Corporate Communications
+41 79 957 96 73
media@viforpharma.com

Investor Relations
Julien Vignot
Head of Investor Relations
+41 58 851 66 90
investors@viforpharma.com

Cara Therapeutics contacts:
Media Contact
Claire LaCagnina
6 Degrees
315-765-1462
clacagnina@6degreespr.com

Investor Contact
Janhavi Mohite
Stern Investor Relations, Inc.
212-363-1200
janhavi.mohite@sternir.com


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Perspectum: High Liver Fat (Hepatic Steatosis) Linked to Increased Risk of Hospitalization in COVID-19 Patients With Obesity

  Breakthrough non-invasive liver imaging helps identify patients at increased risk of severe disease



OXFORD, England-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New research published this month in Frontiers in Medicine (Gastroenterology) reveals that individuals with both obesity and severe fatty liver are five times more likely to require hospitalization for the illness. The non-invasive liver imaging technology — Perspectum’s LiverMultiScan — was used to gather MRI scans for the study.

Obesity is often associated with fat accumulation in the liver, which can lead to liver disease, and emerging data suggests that patients with obesity are at an increased risk of becoming seriously ill with COVID-19. The World Obesity Federation summarizes recent reports suggesting in the US almost 50 percent of people hospitalized with COVID-19 were also affected by obesity. A new report from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.A.) indicates 78 percent of people who were hospitalized, placed on a ventilator or died from COVID-19 were overweight or obese.

The results of the imaging study, which explored whether having excess liver fat could influence severity of COVID-19 in obese individuals, showed that individuals with both obesity as well as fatty liver were five times more likely to require hospitalization for COVID-19. Notably, individuals with obesity and normal liver fat were not at increased risk of being hospitalized.

“Some individuals with obesity have a normal level of liver fat and some non-obese individuals have high levels of liver fat. It is pertinent to establish whether pre-existing liver disease increases the risk of severe COVID-19 and how this relates to obesity,” says Adriana Roca-Fernandez, first author and scientist at Perspectum, the company developing LiverMultiScan. “Measurement of liver fat and detection of liver disease can be achieved using non-invasive imaging methods such as Perspectum’s well-validated, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to help identify patients with COVID-19 who are at increased risk of severe disease.”

Understanding the contribution of liver fat to COVID-19 risk and outcomes is important for clinical understanding and management of COVID-19 and long COVID. The study, “Hepatic Steatosis Rather Than Underlying Obesity Increases Risk of Infection and Hospitalization for COVID-19,” Roca-Fernandez et al., 2021, also confirmed some previously reported risk factors for contracting COVID-19, such as being a male and having a lower socio-economic status. In addition, this study showed that the participants who had tested positive for COVID-19 were more likely to have higher liver fat. The MRI data were acquired before the COVID-19 pandemic by the UK Biobank, one of the largest biomedical databases in the world, and included 4,458 people who had later been tested for COVID-19.

According to Dr. Arun Sanyal, Virginia Commonwealth University, one of the authors of the study, “The current study demonstrates pre-existing fatty liver disease is an independent risk factor for development of severe disease in those with COVID-19. This raises important questions about the role of hepatic steatosis and related liver injury as a disease modifying factor. These data highlight the public health relevance of NAFLD beyond cardiovascular, cancer and liver outcomes and provide a strong rationale for future studies to evaluate whether de-fatting the liver will reduce the likelihood of severe COVID-19 in affected individuals.”

“Determining all risk factors for increased severity of COVID-19 is crucial to help shape public policy measures to protect these high-risk individuals, such as social distancing, prioritization of people for vaccinations, and access to personalized medicine to guide clinical and lifestyle interventions,” adds Roca- Fernandez.

Perspectum, a global medical technology company with offices in the U.K., the U.S. and Singapore, delivers leading digital technologies that help clinicians provide better care for patients with liver disease, diabetes and cancer. With a strong focus on precision medicine using advanced imaging and genetics, our vision is to empower patients and clinicians through quantitative assessments of health enabling early detection, diagnosis, and targeted treatment. With a diverse team of physicians, biomedical scientists, engineers and technologists, Perspectum offers a way to manage complex health problems at scale. For more information, visit perspectum.com.

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Contacts

Jennifer Weismann (US)
612-716-0556
jennifer@owl-marketing.com

Marc Goldfinger (UK)
marc.goldfinger@perspectum.com
+44 753 1785361


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First UAE leadership conference by RLC London a big success

 The conference had over 30 leaders and entrepreneurs as participants from across the region.



Dubai, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Royal Leadership Consults (RLC), London and Ladies in Business, UAE jointly organized the 1st annual Change Leaders Conference on March 20, 2021.   

The theme of the conference was Sharpening your Leadership Edge through multiple leadership models. The enterprise brought together field authorities, industry experts & change catalysts to share their knowledge on key topics such as the relationship between EQ, IQ and Transformational Leadership along with Leadership Philosophy and Personal Productivity.

Dr James Okpanachi, Founder and Chief Architect, RLC London, graced the inaugural function as the keynote speaker and trainer. The leadership and entrepreneurship twin model and the link between the two was presented by Dr. Evelyn Okpanachi, CEO RLC London.

Dr James talked about the importance of The Transformation Equation, leaderships misconceptions and selection of the right components of transformation for success. In his address to the leaders, Dr James said: “Transformation is a key driver of leadership. Transformation begins when your vision is a solution to a situation. Along with that vision, investing in the right people, skills and technology is critical for continued success. Leaders coming together and collaborating makes for a successful and happy society.”

The panel included H.E. Laila Rahhall Elatfani, Mr. William Stenhouse of UAE/African Network and Ms. Adeshola Helen besides Dr James and Dr Evelyn. The conference was attended by over 30 participants including industry experts, directors, entrepreneurs and management professionals from across the region.

The interactive sessions enabled the participants to network and share their views with the panel benefitting both the participants and the panel. A series of tech, leadership and other events in the UAE are expected within the year by RLC London.

Contacts

Shirin Zemmo: Shirin@matrixdubai.com

Krishika Mahesh: Krishika@matrixdubai.com

0097143430888



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Schlumberger and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Bring Open, Enterprise-Scale Data Management to the Energy Industry

 Partnership introduces industry first, AI-enhanced cloud native solution for the OSDU™ Data Platform optimized for Microsoft Azure

LONDON & REDMOND, Wash.-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Schlumberger and Microsoft announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate new technologies for the energy industry. The first offering, the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution for the OSDU Data Platform—a new industry standard for energy data—is available today. Energy companies will now benefit from an OSDU-compliant solution, and the ability to seamlessly connect to the DELFI* cognitive E&P environment from Schlumberger. The Enterprise Data Management Solution is ready for global customers to deploy on Microsoft Azure, Schlumberger’s preferred global public cloud platform for OSDU-compatible solutions.

The companies’ mutual contributions to the first commercial release of the OSDU Data Platform establish the foundation of the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution. Through this partnership they will enhance the Enterprise Data Management Solution, tighten integration with OSDU and develop new scalable data ingestion capabilities, unified AI templates and domain services. These new joint solutions will be built using industry focused cloud, data and AI innovations and domain expertise from Microsoft and Schlumberger. The companies will work together to bring these new products to market, including sales, service and support.

“Introducing a global cloud-based data solution, built by Schlumberger and Microsoft, means the energy industry can fully embrace their digital transformation with confidence. By working together, we have opened access to data and AI, unlocking significant potential for productivity increases and performance gains across all domains,” comments Hinda Gharbi, executive vice president Services and Equipment, Schlumberger. “These new possibilities and opportunities have become a reality today; our joint solution is available for deployment on Azure across the globe. Our industry can now quicken the pace of innovation to accelerate the digital future of energy.”

“Our expanded partnership with Schlumberger underscores the vision we share to help the energy industry’s digital transformation,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud + AI, Microsoft. “By harnessing AI technologies, companies can simplify their data to gain valuable insights and streamline workflows. Built on Azure, and open and interoperable by design, these new solutions and platforms will enable every customer and partner in the energy industry to compete and thrive.”

More detail about the current Enterprise Data Management Solution can be found here. Additional information about the future joint solution will come at a later date.

About Schlumberger

Schlumberger (SLB: NYSE) is a technology company that partners with customers to access energy. Our people, representing over 160 nationalities, are providing leading digital solutions and deploying innovative technologies to enable performance and sustainability for the global energy industry. With expertise in more than 120 countries, we collaborate to create technology that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all.

Find out more at www.slb.com.

About Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

*Mark of Schlumberger

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Contacts

Media

Giles Powell – Director of Corporate Communication, Schlumberger Limited

Tel: +1 (713) 375-3494

communication@slb.com

Microsoft Media Relations, WE Communications for Microsoft

Tel: + 1 (425) 638-7777

rrt@we-worldwide.com

Investors

Ndubuisi Maduemezia – Vice President of Investor Relations, Schlumberger Limited

Joy V. Domingo – Director of Investor Relations, Schlumberger Limited

Tel: +1 (713) 375-3535

investor-relations@slb.com

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Visa Becomes First Major Payments Network to Settle Transactions in USD Coin (USDC)

 With the direct acceptance of payments in USD Coin, Visa forges new connections between digital and traditional currencies.

SAN FRANCISCO-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visa (NYSE: V) today announced a major industry first in bridging the worlds of digital and traditional fiat currencies: the use of USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin backed by the US dollar, to settle a transaction with Visa over Ethereum—one of the most actively used open-source blockchains.1 Visa is piloting the capability with Crypto.com, a Visa partner and one of the world’s largest crypto platforms, and plans to offer the USDC settlement capability to additional partners later this year.

Support for digital currencies as a new type of settlement currency marks an important step forward for Visa’s network of networks strategy, which is designed to enhance all forms of money movement, whether on the Visa network, or beyond. By harnessing its global presence, partnership approach, and trusted brand, Visa is focused on adding differentiated value to the ecosystem and making cryptocurrencies more secure, useful, and applicable for payments.

Visa has spent the last year establishing a pathway for digital currency settlement within Visa’s existing treasury infrastructure, a platform that moves billions of dollars each day across thousands of institutions in more than 200 markets and 160 currencies. Working with Anchorage, the first federally chartered digital asset bank and an exclusive Visa digital currency settlement partner, Visa has launched a pilot that allows Crypto.com to send USDC to Visa to settle a portion of its obligations for the Crypto.com Visa card program.

Visa’s standard settlement process requires partners to settle in a traditional fiat currency, which can add cost and complexity for businesses built with digital currencies. The ability to settle in USDC can ultimately help Crypto.com and other crypto native companies evaluate fundamentally new business models without the need for traditional fiat in their treasury and settlement workflows. Visa’s treasury upgrades and integration with Anchorage also strengthen Visa’s ability to directly support new central bank digital currency (CBDC) as they emerge in the future.

“Crypto-native fintechs want partners who understand their business and the complexities of digital currency form factors,” said Jack Forestell, executive vice president and chief product officer, Visa. “The announcement today marks a major milestone in our ability to address the needs of fintechs managing their business in a stablecoin or cryptocurrency, and it’s really an extension of what we do every day, securely facilitating payments in all different currencies all across the world.”

Kris Marszalek, Co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com said: “We’ve seen record-breaking growth in our business and the broader crypto ecosystem over the last year. To continue accelerating the world’s transition to cryptocurrency, we need partners who understand the opportunity and the tools that will help us get to market faster and more efficiently. Having been a Visa partner for several years, we’re excited to deepen that relationship through our global agreement and to pioneer an exciting world-first in stablecoin payments.”

“Anchorage’s platform has been purposefully built for institutions like Visa to build new products in crypto. We’ve been with Visa every step of the way since 2019 and are extremely pleased to see these first stablecoin payment rails come to life through Anchorage APIs,” said Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President of Anchorage.

David Puth, CEO of Centre, which oversees the licensing of USDC, said: "Visa is leading the market with its innovative approach to payments in many forms. We are very impressed with their efforts. Having USDC on the Visa network is an outstanding next step in our mission to connect the world using stablecoins built on Centre standards, starting with USDC."

To learn more about today’s news and the settlement process at Visa, visit the Visa blog.

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device, for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa, visa.com/blog and @VisaNews. 

1 “Settlement” refers to the daily exchange of funds between Visa’s issuing and acquiring partners over VisaNet to exchange value for cleared and settled transactions—it does not refer to the movement of funds from individual consumer accounts.

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Thales Named as a Market Leader in KuppingerCole Analysts Leadership Compass for Database and Big Data Security

 • CipherTrust Data Security Platform is praised for its comprehensive database security capabilities, delivering a single platform for transparent encryption, data masking, and key management

• Thales’ next-generation platform awarded “strong positive” ratings for Security, Usability, and Deployment

PARIS LA DÉFENSE-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Thales today announced that it has been named as a Market Leader in the 2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Database and Big Data Security.

The report recognised Thales’ leadership role within the data security market through its CipherTrust Data Security Platform. Thales’ flagship data security platform was praised for its data discovery and classification, transparent encryption, and database and application data protection. The report also commended CipherTrust’s data masking, tokenization, access controls, enterprise key management, and cloud key management functions.

“The CipherTrust Data Security Platform now provides a full range of data-centric security capabilities, including data discovery and classification, transparent encryption, database and application data protection, data masking, tokenization, access controls, enterprise key management, and cloud key management unified from a single management interface. Its unified, ubiquitous approach across all available IT environments enables multiple business-focused use cases beyond just compliance, including reduction of data security complexity, accelerating cloud migrations, and reducing data exposure risks significantly across whole enterprises,” said Alexi Balaganski, Lead Analyst at KuppingerCole.

With the accelerated move to the cloud and decentralisation of business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, effective data security has become even more essential for safeguarding businesses against cybercrime. The Thales 2020 Data Threat Report reveals that 100% of businesses surveyed report that at least some of the sensitive data they are storing in the cloud is not encrypted. According to the report, only 54% of sensitive data in the cloud is protected by encryption and even less (44%) is protected by tokenisation. Despite this, a fifth of firms (20%) intend to reduce data security spend in the next year. A centralized data security platform, that protects data across all of an organization’s environments, can save an organization time and money while improving security compliance.

“Covid-19 has changed the way that we use, store, and access data. Hackers are looking for potential vulnerabilities to access this sensitive data in remote databases and big data arrays. Our CipherTrust Data Security Platform provides powerful and easy to use tools to discover, protect and control their data no matter where it resides.” said Todd Moore, Vice President of Encryption Solutions at Thales. “It’s hugely rewarding to be noted by KuppingerCole as a leader in database and big data security. This recognition illustrates Thales’s strong offering within the market and our continued commitment to meet our customers’ ever more complex data privacy needs.”

CipherTrust Data Security Platform is in a single platform dedicated to simplifying the data security compliance process that combines both Thales’s Vormetric and SafeNet KeySecure technologies. It was developed to unify data discovery, classification, and risk-analysis functions with encryption, access, data masking and key management to provide seamless and comprehensive protection from breaches.

Download the full KuppingerCole Report Leadership Compass for Database and Big Data Security.

About Thales

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies, investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum computing – to build a confident future crucial for the development of our societies. The Group provides its customers – businesses, organisations and governments – in the defense, aeronautics, space, transport, and digital identity and security domains with solutions, services and products that help them fulfil their critical role, consideration for the individual being the driving force behind all decisions.

Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2020 the Group generated sales of €17 billion.

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Walton Announces a CAD $40.5 Million Distribution to Investors in Roll-Up Corporation

 CALGARY, Alberta-Thursday 25 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Walton, a real estate investment and land asset management company with US $3.39 billion under management, is pleased to announce a significant distribution to investors totaling CAD $40.5 million. The distribution was approved on March 16, 2021 by the Walton-managed Roll-Up Corporation (RUC). The distribution will be paid to shareholders of RUC on April 8, 2021.

RUC was formed through the amalgamation of 134 Canadian pre-development land entities and has more than 27,000 shareholders. The Corporation collectively owns an interest in 21,533 acres of pre-development land in key growth markets throughout the United States and Canada. This is the second distribution made to investors in RUC, with this distribution representing $0.60 per share.

RUC investors have received a total of CAD $48.8 million in distributions. To date, the two distributions equal $0.71 per share and represents an approximate 8.4% per share percentage distribution based on the most recent per share price of $8.46.

Strong market activity and progress on the monetization of RUC’s assets over the past several years, specifically in 2020, contributed to this distribution. The 2021 outlook is projected to be quite successful in terms of exit activity and further monetization of assets as RUC continues to execute on its goals. Currently, RUC has approximately CAD $71.3 million in deals under contract and an additional CAD $61.6 million in negotiated, but not yet executed sale and/or option agreements.

About Walton

Walton is a privately owned, leading global real estate investment, land asset management and administration company that has focused on strategically located land in major growth corridors for more than 40 years. The company manages and administers US$3.39 billion of real estate assets in North America, on behalf of its investors and business partners. Walton has more than 105,000 acres of land under ownership, management and administration in the United States and Canada. Key entities in the Walton Group include Walton Global Holdings, Walton International Group and Walton Development and Management. For more information visit Walton.com.

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NTT Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global Ranked Highest in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Network Services, Global

 TOKYO & LONDON & NEW YORK -Monday 29 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

NTT is positioned furthest and highest for “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to execute” respectively in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

NTT SD-WAN real-time network analytics offers deep insight into application performance, network security, and the end-user experience.

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT, a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced it is positioned as a Leader in the March 2021 Gartner ‘Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global’ report, recognized for both its “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute.” NTT is also ranked highest in the March 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Network Services, Global report for the Global Network, Intra-Asia/Pacific Network and Intra-EMEA Network Use Cases.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant report states, “Driven by cloud IT service adoption and accelerated by COVID-19, the market for global enterprise network services is undergoing a generational shift in technologies and provider landscape. I&O (Infrastructure & Operations) leaders must adapt their network sourcing approaches to reflect this transformation.”

NTT continues to invest heavily in its global network services portfolio as a transformational driver of innovation for its clients. Known for its exceptional client service and support, NTT has deep expertise in building and managing large, distributed networks. For enterprise CIOs and CDOs pursuing a cloud-first strategy, NTT networking services offer seamless performance for end-users to cloud and SaaS applications, offering a secure, reliable, and enhanced experience whether connecting from home, a branch office, or a large campus.

Masaaki Moribayashi, Senior Executive Vice President for Services for NTT Ltd. said, “Networking is core to delivering agile and impactful solutions for our clients’ rapidly changing business needs. With years of continued investment in our global network services portfolio, it’s a great honor to us to see NTT’s vision, strategy and product portfolio has been well recognized.”

Takeshi Wakita, Senior Vice President for NTT’s Global Network business division, added, “Transformation has always been the foundation of innovation for NTT. We’re incredibly grateful for the hard work of our employees and deep partnership with our clients that allows us to continually raise the bar for our services and offerings.”

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1Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global, Neil Rickard, Bjarne Munch, Danellie Young, 2 March 2021.

2Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Network Services, Global, Danellie Young, Bjarne Munch, Lisa Pierce, 3 March 2021

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About NTT

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These services include digital business consulting, technology and managed services for cybersecurity, applications, workplace, cloud, data center and networks – all supported by our deep industry expertise, innovation and solutions.

As a top 5 global technology and business solutions provider, our diverse teams deliver services in over 190 countries and regions. We serve 80%+ of Fortune Global 100 companies and thousands of other clients and communities around the world. For more information on NTT, visit www.global.ntt/

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Study Investigates the Impact of Automating Respiration Rate Measurement Using Masimo Rad-G™ with RRp®

 NEUCHATEL, Switzerland -Monday 29 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the results of a prospective, observational study published in Acta Paediatrica in which researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto evaluated the accuracy of plethysmographic respiration rate measurement (RRp®) using Masimo Rad-G™, a rugged, handheld device, on malnourished, hospitalized children in Nigeria.1

Noting that in resource-limited environments, respiration rate (RR) measurement is often used to directly inform medical decisions for children with respiratory problems, but that manual RR counting “remains a challenge,” Dr. Nancy Dale and colleagues investigated whether a technological solution might provide a useful alternative to manual counting. To make the evaluation, the researchers compared simultaneous device measurements and nurse-measured manual RR counts on malnourished children. The device chosen was the Masimo Rad-G, which uses a pulse oximetry sensor to measure both oxygen saturation and RRp, and which has been shown to provide good agreement between RRp and pediatrician-measured RR.2 They enrolled 514 children, aged 6 to 59 months, who were hospitalized between July 2019 and May 2020, in Borno State, Nigeria. Study nurses were trained to operate Rad-G and also perform manual RR counts as part of twice-daily patient assessment. RR was manually counted for 60 seconds while Rad-G simultaneously measured RRp via a sensor attached to the patient’s toe, and both measurements were recorded.

Analyzing the 6,889 paired RR measurements, the researchers found that the mean Rad-G RRp reading was 1.3 bpm (95% confidence interval 1.2 – 1.4 bpm) higher than the mean manual RR value. The mean absolute difference between the two methods was 4.4 bpm (95% CI 4.3 – 4.5 bpm). When RR was classified as either “normal” or “fast” breathing (using WHO pneumonia thresholds), the two methods resulted in the same classification 84% of the time. When RR was classified according to BedsidePEWS RR sub-scoring (a 4-point scale), 80% of the scores were the same, and 99.3% were within 1 point.

The researchers concluded that their findings “highlight the potential clinical impact of changing practice from manual to automated RR count. Clinical implementation of the device should be carefully monitored to measure impact on patient outcomes.”

Study co-author Dr. Stanley Zlotkin commented, “Technical solutions to improve clinical care are laudable. We look forward to continuing this research.”

RRp is one of multiple RR monitoring modalities offered by Masimo, which also include acoustic respiration rate (RRa®) and NomoLine® capnography (RRc™), helping clinicians ensure they have the most suitable tool for each patient scenario.

First developed in partnership with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rad-G is a rugged, handheld device that provides clinically proven Masimo SET® pulse oximetry, respiration rate (RRp), and other important parameters. With its long-lasting rechargeable battery, robust rubber casing, and light weight, Rad-G makes it easier for clinicians to quickly assess patients and make informed care decisions anywhere pulse oximetry or vital signs checking is needed in a compact, portable form factor. Coupled with the universal Mini-Clip™ pulse oximeter sensor to provide the ultimate in handheld versatility, Rad-G can be used in a variety of settings, including limited-resource environments, both indoors and in the field.

In the U.S., RRp is 510(k) cleared for patients greater than two years old.

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About Masimo

Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global medical technology company that develops and produces a wide array of industry-leading monitoring technologies, including innovative measurements, sensors, patient monitors, and automation and connectivity solutions. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry, introduced in 1995, has been shown in over 100 independent and objective studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies.3 Masimo SET® has also been shown to help clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in neonates,4 improve CCHD screening in newborns,5 and, when used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response team activations, ICU transfers, and costs.6-9 Masimo SET® is estimated to be used on more than 200 million patients in leading hospitals and other healthcare settings around the world,10 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 9 of the top 10 hospitals according to the 2020-21 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll.11 Masimo continues to refine SET® and in 2018, announced that SpO2 accuracy on RD SET® sensors during conditions of motion has been significantly improved, providing clinicians with even greater confidence that the SpO2 values they rely on accurately reflect a patient’s physiological status. In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), RPVi™ (rainbow® PVi), and Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™). In 2013, Masimo introduced the Root® Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform, built from the ground up to be as flexible and expandable as possible to facilitate the addition of other Masimo and third-party monitoring technologies; key Masimo additions include Next Generation SedLine® Brain Function Monitoring, O3® Regional Oximetry, and ISA™ Capnography with NomoLine® sampling lines. Masimo’s family of continuous and spot-check monitoring Pulse CO-Oximeters® includes devices designed for use in a variety of clinical and non-clinical scenarios, including tetherless, wearable technology, such as Radius-7® and Radius PPG™, portable devices like Rad-67™, fingertip pulse oximeters like MightySat® Rx, and devices available for use both in the hospital and at home, such as Rad-97®. Masimo hospital automation and connectivity solutions are centered around the Masimo Hospital Automation™ platform, and include Iris® Gateway, iSirona™, Patient SafetyNet, Replica™, Halo ION™, UniView™, UniView :60™, and Masimo SafetyNet™. Additional information about Masimo and its products may be found at www.masimo.com. Published clinical studies on Masimo products can be found at www.masimo.com/evidence/featured-studies/feature/.

ORi and RPVi have not received FDA 510(k) clearance and are not available for sale in the United States. The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from University HealthSystem Consortium.

References

Dale N, Parshuram C, Tomlinson G, Shepherd S, Ashir GM, Maryah LB, Zlotkin S. Performance of automated versus nurse-measured respiratory rate measurements in hospitalized malnourished children. Acta Paediatr 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15781.
Alwadhi V, Sarin E, Kuma P et al. Measuring accuracy of plethysmography based respiratory rate measurement using pulse oximeter at a tertiary hospital in India. Pneumonia 2020;12:4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41479-020-00067-2.
Published clinical studies on pulse oximetry and the benefits of Masimo SET® can be found on our website at http://www.masimo.com. Comparative studies include independent and objective studies which are comprised of abstracts presented at scientific meetings and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Castillo A et al. Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity in Preterm Infants through Changes in Clinical Practice and SpO2 Technology. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Feb;100(2):188-92.
de-Wahl Granelli A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry screening on the detection of duct dependent congenital heart disease: a Swedish prospective screening study in 39,821 newborns. BMJ. 2009;Jan 8;338.
Taenzer A et al. Impact of pulse oximetry surveillance on rescue events and intensive care unit transfers: a before-and-after concurrence study. Anesthesiology. 2010:112(2):282-287.
Taenzer A et al. Postoperative Monitoring – The Dartmouth Experience. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter. Spring-Summer 2012.
McGrath S et al. Surveillance Monitoring Management for General Care Units: Strategy, Design, and Implementation. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016 Jul;42(7):293-302.
McGrath S et al. Inpatient Respiratory Arrest Associated With Sedative and Analgesic Medications: Impact of Continuous Monitoring on Patient Mortality and Severe Morbidity. J Patient Saf. 2020 14 Mar. DOI: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000696.
Estimate: Masimo data on file.
http://health.usnews.com/health-care/best-hospitals/articles/best-hospitals-honor-roll-and-overview.
Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in connection with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding the potential effectiveness of RRp®, Rad-G™, and SET®. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations about future events affecting us and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control and could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors, including, but not limited to: risks related to our assumptions regarding the repeatability of clinical results; risks related to our belief that Masimo's unique noninvasive measurement technologies, including RRp, Rad-G, and SET®, contribute to positive clinical outcomes and patient safety; risks related to our belief that Masimo noninvasive medical breakthroughs provide cost-effective solutions and unique advantages; risks related to COVID-19; as well as other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which may be obtained for free at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of today's date. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these statements or the "Risk Factors" contained in our most recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under the applicable securities laws.

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