Over 45 leading tech companies from across the country to participate in a two-day virtual recruitment drive

NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today an initiative to create healthcare and life science business that utilizes AI and other digital technologies as part of the "creation of future growth businesses" set forth in the 2025 Mid-term Management Plan. NEC will focus on the three areas of Medical Care, Lifestyle Support, and Life Science, aiming for a business value of 500 billion yen (approximately 4.5 billion USD) in 2030.

US Inflation was 5.3% in August. Barely a change from the previous two months at 5.4%. This is hardly positive news to get excited about. Core inflation is now running at a huge 4%. There is more inflation coming, as we see extremely high producer price rises sweeping the world.

As far as I can tell, this is about as clear a picture of the road ahead, that the RBA can muster? A more open debate of RBA performance is essential for a healthy economy and society.

In Australia, the RBA(?) is adamant there will be no rate hikes until 2024. The reason, it has said so before, would seem to be the only one.

Oversubscribed Fund VII will Invest in Early and Growth-Stage Fintech Businesses

QED Investors, a leading global fintech venture capital firm, announced that it closed a significantly oversubscribed seventh fund (“Fund VII”), with capital commitments of $1.05 billion. 

Darrell Peppers Named COO at Finical

Finical Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of electronic payments in North America, today announced it has appointed Darrell Peppers as its Chief Operating Officer. 

Passport Technology Inc. ("Passport"), a global leader of payment technology for the gaming industry, announced today the signing of a multi-year agreement with Angel Of The Winds Casino Resort, delivering advanced casino payments, dynamic marketing, and cage automation solutions. This relationship marks Passport's entry into Washington State and a steadfast commitment to customer collaboration, innovation, and support.

ThycoticCentrify, a leading provider of cloud identity security solutions formed by the merger of privileged access management (PAM) leaders Thycotic and Centrify, today announced that Keith Green has joined the company as Chief Human Resources (HR) Officer. Green joins ThycoticCentrify with more than 25 years of experience leading major corporate transformations, and will oversee the newly-combined company’s HR strategies and several business operations. 

In the year of Science and Technology in Russia Sber has established the Sber Science Award, an annual science award to support the R’n’D efforts that have a considerable potential to impact the progress of science and technology. Three winners will receive RUB 20 mn in prizes. The prize pool of the science award reaches RUB 60 mn.

Listing enables MYHSM to support Financial Institutions to accelerate cloud-based payment strategies and keep pace with surge in public cloud adoption

MYHSM is the first multi-vendor Payment HSM Service provider offering a globally accessible, fully managed, Payment Card Industry (PCI) PIN and PCI DSS certified service using HSM manufactures such as Utimaco Atalla AT1000 and Thales payShield 10K.