Sneeboer Manufacturing is internationally known for its highest quality, stainless-steel, hand-forged garden tools enjoyed by discerning gardeners. The family business was set up in 1913 and with the help of Ingenico, Sneeboer tools are now for sale in no less than 179 countries around the globe.

Browne Jacobson’s corporate team has advised on another InsurTech venture capital deal – assisting crowd insurance pioneer Laka on its £1.1m (US $1.5m) seed round.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)’s 13th President has announced the strategic direction “Creating Partnership Platform to Drive Inclusive Growth” with four agendas: Transform, Strengthen, Enhance, and Grow with quality aiming at promoting market quality, improving market accessibility, building capital market infrastructures as well as removing obstacles and streamlining processes for the whole capital market, reinforcing SET’s vision “To Make the Capital Market ‘Work’ for Everyone.”

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, today announced its new vessel monitoring capability, Firco Trade Compliance Ship Enforcement Alerts (SEA), which will further enhance its market leading screening solution. Firco Trade Compliance SEA will allow organisations involved in trade finance to track shipping vessels in real-time to ensure they are not in breach of international sanctions.

Introduction

UK Government research published in December 2017 showed that there are around 5.7 million Small and Medium Sized enterprises, employing less than 250 people. 5.5 million of these businesses employ less than 10.

UK SME’s turned over £19 trillion in 2017, 51% of all private sector turnover. The sector is dynamic, innovative and growing, and vital to the health of the economy.

Businesses across all verticals are dealing with the fallout from shadow IT, whether they realise it or not. Shadow IT refers to technology which is brought into an organisation by individual employees and business units without the knowledge or consent of corporate IT teams. Fuelled in part by its ease of purchase and deployment, SaaS applications are largely to blame for the impressive growth of Shadow IT. According to a recent survey from the Cloud Security Alliance, 72 percent of executives are unaware of how many shadow applications are in use within their organisation.

AiX, the artificial intelligence broker, announces today that it has completed the first ever trade brokered by an AI powered chatbot.

Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that B+S Logistik (B+S GmbH Logistik und Dienstleistungen), a leading German logistics service provider (LSP), has expanded its contract logistics business with new business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce operations using the Descartes pixi* warehouse management solution (WMS) to support order fulfillment in fashion, food distribution and other segments.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation has been awarded two major outsourcing contracts by Siemens, a global engineering leader, to drive Siemens’ digital transformation program. The first contract will cover multiple activities spanning Application Management services and Technical Production Support in SAP, Microsoft and Business Intelligence for multiple divisions of Siemens, while the second contract will cover Application Management services for Siemens regions in Europe, APAC and Latin America.