Ofqual (The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation) has chosen to implement Oracle Cloud Finance, HCM, Recruitment and Onboarding solutions. In modernising its systems, the organisation selected Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps (Inoapps.com) from the G-Cloud procurement framework. In time it is anticipated that the new solution will deliver an intuitive self-service experience, integration process efficiencies and automated transactions along with cross-functional reporting and superior business insight.Ofqual regulates qualifications examinations and assessments in England. As part... Source: RealWire

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London, UK and Toronto, Canada, August 6 2018 – Finastra has closed the transaction for the sale of its Canadian-based Collateral Management Corporation (CMS) business to Teranet, a Toronto-based pioneer in electronic registration services.CMS is a leading provider of lien registration services, recovery services and insolvency management solutions to Canadian lenders. The sale includes the registration and recovery business lines, which provide a comprehensive set of search and lien registration services, asset recovery services and... Source: RealWire

via Albert Sherrill Investment Blog http://www.realwire.com/releases/Finastra-announces-closing-of-Teranet-transaction

UK consumers are more than twice as concerned about Brexit than the nation’s health and wellbeing and more than five times as concerned about it than environmental issuesAugust 1st is the earliest Earth Overshoot Day has ever fallen, yet the vast majority of UK consumers don’t have any plans to improve the way they live their lives from either a health or environmental perspectiveGeneration Z thinks that reducing energy consumption is half as important as... Source: RealWire

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LUXEMBOURG, 1 August 2018 - The OneLife Company S.A. (“OneLife”) today announced that an agreement has been reached between funds advised by J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC (“J.C. Flowers”) and the Groupe APICIL (“APICIL”) to sell 100 percent of OneLife to APICIL. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.OneLife is a leading Luxembourg life insurance company with more than 5.2 billion euros in assets under management.APICIL is the... Source: RealWire

via Albert Sherrill Investment Blog http://www.realwire.com/releases/OneLife-To-Be-Acquired-By-Groupe-APICIL