Daily Archives: 9, November 2016

Rio Tinto suspends Energy & Minerals chief executive Alan Davies over Simandou project investigation

LONDON, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — On 29 August 2016, Rio Tinto became aware of email correspondence from 2011 relating to contractual payments totalling US$10.5 million made to a consultant providing advisory services on the Simandou project in Guinea. The company launched … Read the full press release

La Banque Postale publie les résultats de la pré-notification des exigences de fonds propres spécifiques fixées par la BCE

PARIS, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — A la suite du Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) mené par la BCE en 2016, le niveau de fonds propres CET1 phased-in exigé sur base consolidée pour La Banque Postale a été fixé, sur la … Read the full press release

Telia Company on Lithuania’s Law on Electronic Communications legislation changes

STOCKHOLM, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — According to Telia Company’s Group Policy on Freedom of Expression in Telecommunications we will, whenever possible, report on developments with potentially serious impacts on the freedom of expression of our customers. Government’s surveillance of communications often … Read the full press release

Renewable waste heat from Sonera’s future data centre in Helsinki to heat Finnish households

Renewable waste heat from Sonera’s future data centre in Helsinki will be recycled and used to heat roughly 20,000 Finnish households. HELSINKI, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The data centre at Pitäjänmäki in Helsinki will become the largest in the country once … Read the full press release

Telia Company to acquire Phonero for NOK 2,300 million

STOCKHOLM, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Telia Company acquires Norwegian Phonero at an enterprise value of NOK 2,300 million on a cash and debt free basis. The transaction will strengthen Telia’s position in the Norwegian enterprise segment and expects to generate annual … Read the full press release

Ranieri Sabatucci formally assumed the role of Head of Delegation of the European Union to the African Union

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Ambassador Ranieri Sabatucci presented his credentials to H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission at the Commission’s headquarters in Addis Ababa on November 3 2016, formally assuming the role of … Read the full press release

Fast payments services the focus of new report by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI)

BASEL, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The development and importance of fast payments services are the focus of a new report by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the global standard setter for payment, clearing and settlement services. Across CPMI … Read the full press release

The central bank Governors of GEM appointed Ms Jacqueline Loh as Chair of the Markets Committee

BASEL, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — At their meeting at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel this weekend, the central bank Governors of the Global Economy Meeting (GEM)1 appointed Ms Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director at the Monetary Authority of Singapore … Read the full press release

TÜV Rheinland unveils online inspection strategy for plants operating at high temperatures

UAE, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — TÜV Rheinland, a German based global provider of technical, safety, and certification services, has recently developed an online inspection strategy for plants operating at high temperatures. The objective placed by the strategy is aimed towards … Read the full press release

Green Product Mark of TÜV Rheinland awarded with GENICES Certificate at Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) conference in Kiev

KIEV, 09-Nov-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — On October 19, 2016, the Green Product Mark of TÜV Rheinland was awarded with GENICES Certificate at the annual general conference of Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) in Kiev, Ukraine. GENICES, the GEN Internationally Coordinated Ecolabelling System, … Read the full press release