Daily Archives: 6, November 2015

Bank Austria now offers personal advice through video calls for hearing impaired customers

As a pioneer of barrier-free services, Bank Austria now offers personal advice through video calls for hearing impaired customers based on its SmartBanking service model Interpreters of the ÖGS.barrierefrei service centre translate the consultations simultaneously into sign language No barriers … Read the full press release

Central Bank of Cyprus releases statistics on interest rates applied by monetary financial institutions in Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Cyprus releases today the statistics on interest rates applied by monetary financial institutions in Cyprus on deposits and loans in euro for the reference month of September … Read the full press release

The Dutch housing market will grow steadily this year and next – Dutch Housing Market Quarterly by Rabobank

Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Dutch housing market will grow steadily this year and next. Some 182,000 houses are expected to be sold this year, a rise of 19% compared to 2014. In 2016 we expect between 175,000 … Read the full press release

Erste Group CEO Andreas Treichl on 9M 2015 results: Better than expected loan growth of 3.1%, lower risk costs and limited one-offs compared to the previous year

VIENNA, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — “Our solid result of EUR 764.2 million for the first nine months of 2015 was driven by several positive developments: better than expected loan growth of 3.1%, lower risk costs and limited one-offs compared to … Read the full press release

CLH Group delivered 3.3 million cubic metres of oil products to the Spanish market during August 2015

MADRID, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Deliveries of oil products from CLH Group facilities to the Spanish market during October totalled 3.3 million cubic metres, 4.2% more than in the same period of the previous year after correction of the seasonal … Read the full press release

Arriva welcomed the decision for the first bus franchising scheme outside London

Sunderland, UK, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Arriva has welcomed the decision of an independent board set up by the government to assess proposals for the first bus franchising scheme outside London. The Quality Contract Scheme Board ruled that Nexus’s proposals for a Quality … Read the full press release

Alstom’s CEO Kron on H1 2015/16 results: Sound commercial performance in Transport; sales up 8% and operating income increased by 10%

High level of orders and solid backlog Sales and operating income increase Levallois-Perret, France, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Between 1 April and 30 September 2015, Alstom booked a strong €3.9 billion of orders corresponding to a book-to-bill of 1.2. Over the … Read the full press release

Alstom to return part of the proceeds from the transaction with General Electric to its shareholders

Levallois-Perret, France, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Following the completion of the transaction with General Electric regarding Alstom’s Energy activities, the Group proposes to return a part of the proceeds to its shareholders. In its session of 4 November 2015, Alstom’s Board … Read the full press release

Evaluation affirms the performance of the QIAGEN’s GeneReader NGS System in detecting gene variants known to be clinically relevant in colorectal cancer

World’s first complete Sample to Insight NGS solution proves equal or better compared with other sequencing workflows and alternative technologies Austin, Texas, and Hilden, Germany, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that an … Read the full press release

QIAGEN N.V. starts commercialization activities for its GeneReader NGS System

First truly end-to-end solution brings next-generation sequencing within reach for any lab Austin, Texas, and Hilden, Germany, 6-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the start of commercialization activities for its GeneReader NGS System, … Read the full press release