(IN BRIEF) CAWL has appointed Jean-Luc Thérond as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 1, 2025, replacing Meriem Echcherfi, who has become CEO of the Fédération Nationale du Crédit Agricole. Thérond, a member of the Crédit Agricole S.A. Management … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, France, Management, News, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged CAWL, Credit Agricole, Crédit Agricole Payment Services, Ecole Centrale Paris, Fédération Nationale du Crédit Agricole, Groupe BPCE, Jean-Luc Thérond, Laurent Bennet, merchant services, Meriem Echcherfi, Natixis Payment Solutions, payment solutions, Worldline
(IN BRIEF) WB GROUP and Hanwha Aerospace have created Hanwha WB Advanced Systems, a Polish–South Korean joint venture that will manufacture ammunition for the HOMAR-K launcher and develop new missile systems in Poland. Signed at MSPO 2025 by WB Electronics … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Business, Defence, Industrial, Poland, Technology
Tagged ammunition manufacturing, Artur Kuptel, Chunmoo, defense industry, Guckcheol Bang, Hanwha Aerospace, Hanwha WB Advanced Systems, HOMAR-K, Hyunki Cho, Jae-il Son, missile production, MSPO 2025, Paweł Bejda, Piotr Wojciechowski, Poland, South Korea, WB Electronics, WB GROUP, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
(IN BRIEF) Rheinmetall is moving forward with plans to build a large-scale ammunition disposal plant on Lerchenberg in the Dillingen an der Donau district of Bavaria, with operations scheduled to begin in 2026. The facility will dismantle and destroy both … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Defence, Germany, Industrial, Management, News, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged ammunition disposal, artillery shells, Bavaria, Bundeswehr, Dillingen an der Donau, explosive ordnance disposal, legacy munitions, Lerchenberg, NATO, Projects & Services business unit, Rheinmetall, sea mines, Stascheit GmbH, unexploded ordnance, World War II bombs
(IN BRIEF) One Click LCA has integrated SimaPro and PRé Sustainability into its operations, forming the world’s largest and most advanced life-cycle assessment (LCA) platform. With over 500,000 datasets across multiple industries, the combined platform blends SimaPro’s scientific rigor with … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Finland, Industrial, Netherlands, Science, Technology
Tagged ABB, Aecom, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, carbon reduction, Eric Mieras, InfraVia, Johnson & Johnson, LCA platform, life-cycle assessment, One Click LCA, Panu Pasanen, PRé Sustainability, Procter & Gamble, PSG Equity, regulatory compliance, Siemens Energy, SimaPro, supply chain data, sustainability software
(IN BRIEF) Continental’s ContiTech division has launched a new era in rubber recycling by acquiring exclusive patent rights for an advanced pyrolysis-based purification process and commissioning a pilot plant to produce high-quality pyrolysis oil. The breakthrough allows waste rubber, including … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Management, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged automotive interiors, circular economy, Continental, ContiTech, Dr Michael Hofmann, fossil resources, industrial innovation, LowSulphurFuels, pyrolysis oil, pyrolysis technology, Recovered Carbon Black, rubber recycling, sustainable materials
(IN BRIEF) Lloyds Banking Group has signed a £100 million loan agreement with Sovereign Network Group (SNG), one of the UK’s largest housing associations, to fund the retrofit of thousands of social homes across England. The deal, backed by the … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, News, Real Estate, United Kingdom
Tagged affordable homes, energy efficiency, green finance, Jess Tomlinson, Lloyds Banking Group, National Wealth Fund, net zero, Peabody, Peter Benz, Public Private Partnership, retrofit, SNG, social housing, Sovereign Network Group, Stuart Nivison, sustainable housing, UK housing associations
(IN BRIEF) Smart Train Lease GmbH will supply three Mireo Smart trains to Trans Regio for the new RB 32 line, with the first vehicle set to arrive in October 2025—just six weeks after contract signing. Passenger service on the … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Ahr Valley Railway, Benjamin Dobernecker, CORMAP, Desiro Mainline, digital maintenance, electrification, Flood Recovery, Henrik Behrens, Mireo Smart, Railigent X, RB 32, regional transport, Rhineland-Palatinate, Siemens Mobility, Smart Train Lease, SPNV Nord, Thorsten Müller, Trans Regio, Transdev
(IN BRIEF) Deutsche Bank has upgraded its connection to India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), enabling merchants and Payment Service Providers to process payments more quickly and efficiently through new direct payment rails. The improved infrastructure gives clients access to direct … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Germany, Management, Retail
Tagged Asia Pacific, Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, digital transactions, E-Commerce, financial services, India digital economy, India payments market, merchant solutions, National Payments Corporation of India, Oliver von Quadt, payment rails, PSPs, Real-Time Payments, reconciliation, Unified Payments Interface, UPI, UPI adoption
(IN BRIEF) DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in AJEX Logistics Services, a fast-growing logistics provider in Saudi Arabia owned by Ajlan & Bros Holding Group, in a deal that strengthens both companies’ positions in the Middle East’s booming … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Industrial, International Trade, Retail, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged AJEX Logistics Services, Ajlan & Bros Holding Group, Ajlan Mohamed Al Ajlan, DHL eCommerce, DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Group Strategy 2030, DHL Supply Chain, e-commerce growth, logistics, Middle East, Mohammed Albayati, Pablo Ciano, parcel delivery, Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030
(IN BRIEF) BASF will showcase the next stage of its VALERAS® portfolio at K 2025, presenting new additive solutions that drive sustainability across the plastics lifecycle. The portfolio’s latest addition, TINUVIN® NOR® 112, enhances greenhouse film performance in organic farming … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Chemicals, Germany, Industrial, Marketing
Tagged #OurPlasticsDialogues, #OurPlasticsJourney, BASF, Cleanfarms, Dr. Achim Sties, Düsseldorf trade fair, greenhouse films, HALS stabilizer, Irgastab, K 2025, McKenzie Snyder, plastic additives, plastic circularity, plastic lifecycle, plasticulture, Shouman Group, special additives, sustainability, Takazuri Ltd, TINUVIN NOR 112, VALERAS™
(NEWS) WARSAW, 27-Aug-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Polish entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert Szustkowski has appealed directly to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, warning that an unchecked campaign of disinformation and hate speech has endangered his safety, destroyed his reputation, and forced him … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Government, Internet & Online, Law, Media, News, Poland, Society
Tagged accountability, court rulings, Didier Reynders, disinformation, Donald Tusk, EU-wide register of rights violations, European Union, false allegations, freedom of speech, hate speech, manipulated narratives, media abuse, media harassment, Organized Crime, personal rights violations, philanthropist, Polish entrepreneur, Polish Prime Minister, political scandals, press freedom, Readers' Rights Ombudsman, reputation damage, Robert Szustkowski, Russian intelligence, safety threats, Vĕra Jourová
(IN BRIEF) Robert Szustkowski is urging the Polish Prime Minister and EU institutions to strengthen protections against disinformation, arguing that since 2016 he has been the target of a sustained media campaign falsely linking him to Russian intelligence, organized crime, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Government, Internet & Online, Law, Media, Poland
Tagged accountability, court rulings, disinformation, EU-wide register of rights violations, European Union, false allegations, freedom of speech, hate speech, manipulated narratives, media abuse, media harassment, Organized Crime, personal rights violations, philanthropist, Polish entrepreneur, Polish Prime Minister, political scandals, press freedom, Readers' Rights Ombudsman, reputation damage, Robert Szustkowski, Russian intelligence, safety threats
(IN BRIEF) Capgemini has signed an agreement to acquire Cloud4C, a global provider of hyper-automated, AI-ready cloud managed services. With 1,600 specialists and operations in 29 countries, Cloud4C is known for its expertise in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, sovereign cloud solutions, … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Financial, France, Industrial, Internet & Online, Investment, Management, News, Technology
Tagged acquisitions, AI-ready platforms, Aiman Ezzat, Capgemini, cloud managed services, cloud migration, Cloud4C, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, digital transformation, generative AI, hybrid cloud, hyper-automation, IDC, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Sovereign Cloud, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Syniti
(IN BRIEF) Maersk has inaugurated a new service centre in Warsaw’s Wola district, marking a major milestone in its European expansion. The office, launched on 21 August, will enhance customer service, centralise operations, and provide multilingual support for Maersk’s diverse … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Poland, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Aymeric Chandavoine, business expansion, Caroline Wu, customer service, European operations, Global Service Centre, logistics, Maersk, multilingual support, Poland, shipping industry, sustainability, talent hub, Warsaw office, Wola district
(IN BRIEF) Alstom has been awarded contracts worth several hundred million euros by Larsen & Toubro to deliver 39 driverless Metropolis trainsets, advanced CBTC Urbalis Forward signalling, and five years of maintenance for Mumbai Metro Line 4. The 35.3 km … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Industrial, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged 'Make in India', Alstom, Bangalore engineering centre, CO2 reduction, Coimbatore propulsion, driverless metros, FlexCare Perform, India infrastructure, Larsen & Toubro, Ling Fang, Metropolis trains, MMRDA, Mumbai Metro, Mumbai Metro Line 4, Savli bogies, Sri City factory, sustainable mobility, Urbalis Forward CBTC, Urbalis Vision, urban transport
(IN BRIEF) KNL, a Telenor subsidiary in Finland, has signed contracts worth €15 million with the Finnish and Swedish Armed Forces for the supply of advanced HF radios. These systems provide secure, encrypted communication even in areas without satellites or … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Defence, Financial, Government, Industrial, News, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Dan Ouchterlony, Defence Contracts, encrypted communication, Finnish Armed Forces, HF radios, KNL, military communications, national security, NATO, NORDEFCO, Nordic cooperation, resilient connectivity, secure defence technology, Swedish Armed Forces, Telenor, Toni Lindén
(IN BRIEF) Using the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI infrared camera, astronomers including researchers from Stockholm University have observed the earliest galaxies in mid-infrared light for the first time. The study, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, focuses on the Hubble … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Education, Science, Sweden, Technology
Tagged Arjan Bik, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chalmers, CSA, early universe, EC-MIRI, ESA, European Space Agency, galaxy formation, Göran Östlin, Hubble Ultra Deep Field, infrared astronomy, interstellar dust, James Webb Space Telescope, Jens Melinder, JWST, MIDIS, MIRI, NASA, Stockholm University, supermassive black holes
(IN BRIEF) Laura Montenbruck, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, has been awarded the IIPF Young Economists Award for her study on tax compliance in Sierra Leone. Her research, published under the title “Fiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: Strengthening … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Education, Financial, Science, Sweden, Technology
Tagged fiscal exchange, Freetown, IIPF Young Economists Award, Innovative Research, International Institute of Public Finance, Laura Montenbruck, Nairobi, property taxes, public economics, public services, Sierra Leone, Social Contract, Stockholm University, tax compliance
(IN BRIEF) Professor Alexander Berglund of Stockholm University, together with Professor Emeritus Ib Madsen of the University of Copenhagen, has received the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award for their article “Rational homotopy theory of automorphism of manifolds.” The paper, published … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Education, Science, Sweden, Technology
Tagged 2025 awards, Acta Mathematica, Alexander Berglund, algebraic topology, Frontiers of Science Award, geometric topology, Ib Madsen, International Congress of Basic Science, mathematics, Rational homotopy theory of automorphism of manifolds, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University, University of Copenhagen
(IN BRIEF) Stockholm University is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Royal National City Park with a photography exhibition by Henrik Ekman and a series of guided walks highlighting the park’s cultural and ecological heritage. The exhibition, running from 1 … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Environment, Science, Sweden, Technology
Tagged art and nature, biodiversity, Djurgården, Fjäderholmarna, Frescati, Gärdet, guided walks, Hagaparken, Henrik Ekman, National City Park 30th anniversary, nature photography exhibition, Royal National City Park, Stockholm University, Student House Frescati, sustainability, Ulriksdal
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