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Yacht Club de Monaco: Yachting Masterclass at La Belle Classe Academy

Yacht Club de Monaco: Yachting Masterclass at La Belle Classe Academy

TURIN, Italy, Aug. 02, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – An intensive course to learn all about superyacht professions. It is the ‘Yachting Masterclass’ held at Yacht Club de Monaco’s La Belle Classe Academy training center. On Saturday 27th July, 25 participants in the Yachting Masterclass programme graduated at the Yacht Club de Monaco after three full-on [...]

Esports World Cup Draws Unprecedented Viewership, Sellout Crowds Through First Half of Inaugural Event

Esports World Cup Draws Unprecedented Viewership, Sellout Crowds Through First Half of Inaugural Event

Competition Tops 177 Million Hours Watched as More Than 1 Million Visitors Take in World’s Largest Esports and Gaming Festival in Riyadh Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 02, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Tournaments featuring Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, League of Legends, Dota 2 and more set 2024 viewership highs as $16.5 million is awarded across nine [...]

Wassana Production Restart

Wassana Production Restart

SINGAPORE, Aug. 02, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Valeura Energy Inc. (TSX:VLE, OTCQX:VLERF) (“Valeura” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the planned restart of production operations at the Wassana field, offshore Gulf of Thailand. Valeura implemented a precautionary suspension of oil production on June 28, 2024 to ensure a safe situation while inspecting an anomaly [...]

Belgium Ignites Global Debate by Changing Gambling Age, Highlighting Huge Regulatory Gaps

Belgium Ignites Global Debate by Changing Gambling Age, Highlighting Huge Regulatory Gaps

WATERFORD, Ireland, Aug. 02, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Belgium has ignited a global debate by raising its legal gambling age from 18 to 21, citing concerns over gambling addiction. The move sets Belgium apart from other EU countries like Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Austria, where the legal gambling age is 18. Miranda Raaff, Head of [...]

Zymeworks Announces Share Repurchase Program of up to $60 Million of its Common Stock

Zymeworks Announces Share Repurchase Program of up to $60 Million of its Common Stock

Zymeworks intends to commence the Share Repurchase Program with $30.0 million in initial repurchases anticipated to begin promptly and continue during the second half of 2024 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Zymeworks Inc. (Nasdaq: ZYME) (the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a diverse pipeline of novel, multifunctional biotherapeutics to improve the [...]

SiriusPoint Reports Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Underwriting Profits And Strong Net Income at $109.9m

SiriusPoint Reports Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Underwriting Profits And Strong Net Income at $109.9m

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SiriusPoint Ltd. (“SiriusPoint” or the “Company”) (NYSE:SPNT) today announced results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2024 Half year core combined ratio of 92.5%, or 92.8% ex. LPT, representing a 1.0 point improvement versus prior year Strong growth in the quarter of 22% on gross written premiums [...]

Shawbrook to Leverage nCino to Automate Complex Lending Processes and Optimise Client Portfolios to Achieve Faster Time to Market

Shawbrook to Leverage nCino to Automate Complex Lending Processes and Optimise Client Portfolios to Achieve Faster Time to Market

UK specialist bank to eliminate disparate systems in order to reduce risk, achieve data lineage and consistency and enhance credit risk management LONDON, Aug. 01, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking for the global financial services industry, today announced that Shawbrook has chosen nCino to help automate its loan origination processes, while [...]

Shell plc Publishes Second Quarter 2024 Press Release

Shell plc Publishes Second Quarter 2024 Press Release

London, August 1, 2024 “Shell delivered another strong quarter of operational and financial results. We further strengthened our leading LNG portfolio, and made good progress across our Capital Markets Day 2023 financial targets, including $1.7 billion of structural cost reductions since 2022. Today, we have also announced a further $3.5 billion buyback programme for the [...]