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GENEVA and WILMINGTON, Delaware, December 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey and The Bancorp, Inc. ("Bancorp") (Nasdaq: TBBK) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture to deploy and secure financial services internationally via the WISeID platform (http://www.wiseid.mobi). Bancorp and WISeKey reached an agreement that would result in the integration of WISeKey's Digital Identity Management platform into Bancorp's technology infrastructure. This will...

Scientists and engineers have proven the worth of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network. Their international network, created in collaboration with ID Quantique and installed in the Geneva metropolitan area and crossing over to the site of CERN in France, ran for more than one-and-a-half years from the end of March 2009 to the beginning of January 2011. Published today, 2 December, in the Institute of...

NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York (47 East 66th Street) from December 6th-30th, 2011. The exhibition will then be traveling to BRAFA, (57th Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair, Tour & Taxis), January 21st -29th 2012. Followed by a wonderful display at Phoenix Ancient Art in Geneva (6, rue Verdaine, Geneva),...

GENEVA, November 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Temenos (TEMN:SW), the market leading provider of banking software, today announced that LarrainVial, one of Chile's most prestigious financial services groups with offices in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and the United States, will replace its legacy core banking system with TEMENOS T24 (T24). The institution will deploy T24 to support its retail banking clients' domestic and international holdings. In order to better...

GENEVA, October 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Adeya, the Swiss mobile security company, has announced today that its Adeya for Voice(TM) and Adeya for Data(TM) encryption solutions are ready for the new generation of BlackBerry(R) smartphones[1]. These solutions guarantee secure voice, data transmission and messaging over all wireless public networks, including WiFi, EDGE, 2G, 3G, and satellite. The security community has known for years that mobile communications are at...

WASHINGTON and GENEVA, Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the drive for economic recovery topping the U.S. and global political agenda, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is organizing a landmark summit on financial sustainability and market stability in Washington, D.C. The 2011 Global Roundtable entitled, The Tipping Point: Sustained Stability in the Next Economy, comes at a crucial time for both decision-makers and the U.S. general public....

NEW YORK, October 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GFT Technologies AG (GFT) today announced the acquisition of G2 Systems' consulting services division, a specialist in the provision of premier IT consulting services for alternative investment companies. GFT has thus extended its portfolio with the addition of services for Geneva(R), a leading portfolio management platform. "Investment Management is one of the largest growth markets in the financial sector today. With this...

OEM relationship expands IDQ’s capabilities and Certes Networks’ reach into European Markets Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) October 05, 2011 Certes Networks, the leader in multi-layer encryption solutions for high performance networks, announced today that it has signed an OEM agreement with ID Quantique SA, a Geneva based leader in conventional and quantum encryption technologies. ID Quantique (IDQ) will bring Certes Networks’ technology to market as the Arcis family of...

ROCKFORD, Ill., Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Margaret Ogola, renowned Kenyan author and medical director of Cottolengo HIV and AIDS Hospice, passed away on September 22. At World Congress of Families II in Geneva (1999), Dr. Ogola received the WCF Familias Award for Humanitarian Service. A pediatrician based in Nairobi, Dr. Ogola was the author of two highly acclaimed novels about the lives of four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing world - "The River And...

GENEVA, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Selexis SA announced today it has appointed three leading, internationally recognized scientists to its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The appointed members bring expertise in the areas of gene expression and cell line development, monoclonal antibodies and therapeutic proteins. Selexis formed the SAB to expand the Company's SURE Technology Platform(TM) into the significant drug discovery and R&D market segments. The SAB members...