Daily Archives: 16, November 2015

Oesterreichische Nationalbank: European Central Bank’s comprehensive assessment results in capital increases at Sberbank Europe and VTB Bank Austria

VIENNA, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In 2015, another nine European banks were subjected to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) comprehensive assessment. Among these institutions are two Russian subsidiaries that run their European business from Vienna, Sberbank Europe (SBE) and VTB … Read the full press release

Swiss National Bank: The Chinese central bank authorised direct trading between renminbi and Swiss francs on China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS)

ZURICH, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The People’s Bank of China (PBC), the Chinese central bank, has authorised direct trading between renminbi and Swiss francs on the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) with effect from 9 November 2015. The availability … Read the full press release

Official opening ceremony of the new Leibniz ScienceCampus “Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling” will be held on 18 November 2015

Joint research project of the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim Heidelberg, Germany, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The official opening ceremony of the new Leibniz ScienceCampus “Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language … Read the full press release

Universities of Southampton: Thermal sensitivity of marine communities reveals the most vulnerable to global warming

Southampton, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The sensitivity of marine communities to ocean warming rather than rising ocean temperatures will have strong short-term impacts on biodiversity changes associated with global warming, according to new research. The study, involving scientists from the … Read the full press release

Swisscom: Swiss population spends 285 million minutes every month making phone calls via the Swisscom fixed network

Despite the boom in popularity of smartphones, over 2 million of our customers continue to use fixed-line telephones on an extremely frequent basis. This is reflected in the fact that the Swiss population spends 285 million minutes every month making … Read the full press release

Swisscom unveils Swiss-based online storage service for photos, videos and other files securely stored in Swiss data centres

Say goodbye to data chaos: as of today, myCloud offers a Swiss-based online storage service for photos, videos and other files – the easy way for customers to store personal data and access and share it regardless of the time … Read the full press release

Volvo Group won Arbitration Tribunal case with positive impact of SEK 800m in Q4

GOTHENBURG, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Volvo Group has won a case in the Arbitration Tribunal relating to defective components delivered by an international supplier. The deliveries were made several years ago and the problem was corrected in the production process … Read the full press release

Winners of the fourth Regional Final of The UBS Future of Finance Challenge announced

ZURICH, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Today, UBS announced the winners of the fourth Regional Final of The UBS Future of Finance Challenge held in Zurich. This competition aims to identify innovative and potentially disruptive technological ideas and solutions to support … Read the full press release

Stagecoach Group welcomed the start of a government consultation inviting passengers to have their say over the future of their rail services

PERTH, UK, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Stagecoach Group, which operates the South West Trains network, today (12 November 2015) welcomed the start of a government consultation inviting passengers to have their say over the future of their rail services. Passengers, businesses and … Read the full press release

Bank of Slovenia to deploy system for reporting breaches of regulations in the area of banking

Ljubljana, 16-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In accordance with Article 239 of the Banking Act (ZBan-2), the Bank of Slovenia has put in place a system for reporting breaches of regulations in the area of banking, which is primarily intended for bank … Read the full press release