Joins SES’s North American Ultra HD platform featuring the world’s largest 4K channel line-up LUXEMBOURG-Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Country Network (TCN), an emerging over-the-air television network devoted to showcasing rising and established country music stars, has joined SES’s successful Ultra HD platform to launch its 4K channel and boost its audience reach. SES today announced The Country Network (TCN) has debuted its first shows in Ultra HD this week and become the eleventh 4K channel on SES’s all-in-one Ultra HD solution. The unique Ultra HD platform packages satellite distribution, reception gear, and the world’s largest 4K channel line-up for cable and IPTV operators of all sizes across North America. First launched in 2009, The Country Network is currently enjoyed by country music fans in 15 million US households and will leverage SES’s ubiquitous coverage to dramatically increase viewership. The trio of satellites delivering SES’ ... Read more »

DUBLIN, Ireland-Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Munich Re Automation Solutions Ltd., the leading provider of digital underwriting solutions to the life insurance industry, today announced the launch of their latest data analytics and reporting product, ALLFINANZ Insight. ALLFINANZ Insight is designed to help life insurance companies unlock the insights hidden in their underwriting data using a creative and intuitive interface and 30 years of underwriting expertise built in. A vast amount of data is captured during the new business and underwriting process. Accurately categorising and understanding this data can be hugely valuable as the insights generated will significantly improve the design of underwriting rules, the new business and underwriting process as well as operations and distribution management. ALLFINANZ Insight gives your whole team a clearer, deeper view into their underwriting data. The software uses cutting edge data visualisation to make ... Read more »

New collaboration with Amazon Web Services will enable Murex clients to deploy, test and optimize the MX.3 platform on the cloud PARIS-Wednesday, December 13th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Murex, an industry leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, announced they will run their MX.3 technology platform on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). With the acceleration of cloud adoption in capital markets, Murex and AWS agreed to collaborate to help clients migrate their Murex application workloads to the AWS Cloud. Murex clients are looking to consolidate more and more of their capital markets activity on the MX.3 platform and this means their need for infrastructure is increasing. New regulatory requirements are also driving financial organizations to use cloud to scale up their computing capacity. Murex is collaborating with AWS to meet the demand from clients to support deployment of the Murex offering on the AWS Cloud. Murex is working ... Read more »

The mall will attract over 1 million visitors with 100+ shops, a family entertainment area, botanical gardens, a health & fitness centre, and more AJMAN, United Arab Emirates -Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] Ajman Holding, a strategic organization with a diverse range of subsidiaries and associate companies in the UAE, has announced that it will launch Mirkaaz, a new shopping destination. The new mall is expected to attract over one million visitors with over 100 shops, international restaurants, a cinema, a family entertainment area, botanical gardens, a health & fitness centre, and a hypermarket. Mirkaaz will be the first mall in the UAE to feature a sprawling Atrium Roof and is being built on one million square feet of land. In line with the ambitious Ajman 2021 initiative, the new mall reaffirms the Ajman Holding’s long-standing commitment to its home market, creating direct and indirect job opportunities. Blending art with innovation, Mirkaaz will position Ajman among ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] The Fourth Annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies continued in Abu Dhabi. The second day of the forum included three panel discussions on ‘Islam and the World’, ‘Islam and The World – Ways to Rapprochement and Solidarity’ and ‘Fear of Islam: Causes and Contexts’, and were attended by senior officials, ministers of Islamic countries, and an elite of high-level scholars, decision-makers, and intellectuals. The first theme, discussed during this morning’s session, participants discussed ‘Islam and the World – An Islamic Vision of Global Peace’. The session was moderated by H.E Dr. Mohammed Mokhtar Juma, Egypt’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf), who led the discussions with Ahmad Al Ebadi, the Secretary General of the Muhammadiyah Association of Scholars, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies; H.E Mustafa Ceric, former Grand Mufti ... Read more »

DUBAI, Émirats Arabes Unis-Mercredi 13 Décembre 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] Polina Butorina, une actrice et chanteuse-compositrice adolescente russe résidente aux Émirats Arabes Unis, a sorti son premier album, intitulé « Ocean of Emotions », ici à Dubaï. L'anthologie de 10 chansons originales anglaises est écrite et chantée par l'élève de 15 ans de Raffles International School Dubaï. L'album a été lancé simultanément avec le premier album récent du film de Hollywood « Maximum Impact », dans lequel Polina a joué un rôle principal. Les trois titres de l'album – « Higher Than the Sky », « I Want to Be Free » et « Like Thunder » faisaient partie de la bande originale du film. En présentant son album, Polina a déclaré : « L'album explore l'idée de l'amour sous ses différentes formes. Le concept principal tourne autour de ce sentiment universel – quelle ce soit heureuse ou malheureuse. Une personne qui était amoureuse devient plus forte et plus riche, commence à mieux se comprendre et à mieux co ... Read more »

Under the Theme “World peace and Fear of Islam”; Scholars advocate the culture of peace and tolerance ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Monday, December 11th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] Over 700 of the world’s leading Islamic scholars, academics, intellectuals and researchers attended the opening of the fourth ‘Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies’, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The ground-breaking event is attended by His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, and led by H.E Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies. Also present were H.E Dr. Dr Mohammed Matar Al Kaabi, the forum’s secretary general and chairman of the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments; H.E Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League; Dr. Ahmed Tawfiq, Moroccan Minister of Endowme ... Read more »

● Pioneering UAE rider survey ● Main dangers posed by other motorists ● Need for customers awareness initiatives to appreciate riders’ safety Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] A pioneering study was conducted to validate the road safety perceptions of UAE motorcycle delivery riders, which results were presented at the ‘first-ever’ UAE Motorcycle Delivery Fleet Event in November 2017, an event jointly organized by RoadSafetyUAE and Al-Futtaim Honda. 5 dimensions were surveyed: Behaviour of other motorists; Own behaviour; Perception of Customers; Bike safety; Training. Thomas Edelmann, Managing Director of RoadSafetyUAE: “Motorcycle riders are amongst the most vulnerable road users and hence it is important to understand their perceptions and fears in order to work on improvement potentials. There is just no steel around them to protect them and we see a growing number of motorcycle delivery riders on UAE’s roads. We want to raise awareness f ... Read more »