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Mozilla has released Firefox 150 with a broad security update that fixes 41 vulnerabilities, including multiple high-impact flaws tied to memory handling, browser components and privilege controls, prompting renewed calls for users and enterprise administrators to move quickly on patching. Mozilla’s advisory for the release was published on April 21, 2026, and classed the overall impact as high. The most serious issues include CVE-2026-6746, a use-after-free flaw […]
OmniOps has joined Grafana Labs’ partner programme, a move that gives the Riyadh-based infrastructure company a stronger route into Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing market for cloud monitoring, telemetry and data-sovereign digital operations. The step positions OmniOps to sell and implement Grafana-backed observability services for enterprises that want tighter control over metrics, logs, traces and performance data inside the Kingdom’s regulatory and strategic framework. The partnership matters because observability […]
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A critical security weakness in Atlassian Bamboo Data Center and Server has exposed a fresh risk for organisations that rely on automated software build and deployment systems, after Atlassian disclosed that an authenticated attacker could remotely execute operating system commands on affected installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21571, carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.4 and was published in Atlassian’s April 21 security bulletin, which covered dozens […]
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Blackstone-owned AirTrunk is preparing what could become a landmark financing for Asia-Pacific digital infrastructure, with the data-centre operator seeking to raise at least A$500 million through asset-backed bonds backed by its facilities, according to market reports and company disclosures on its broader funding platform. The move would mark a notable step in bringing securitised debt structures, long familiar in other asset classes, into the region’s fast-growing data-centre […]
SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 21 April 2026 – Tradewind Finance has provided a USD 2.5 million non-recourse export factoring facility to a cable manufacturer based in Vietnam. The facility, structured by Tradewind’s Shanghai office, converts export receivables into immediate liquidity and provides credit protection on buyers in the United States and Australia.
With this structure in place, the exporter maintains 90-day open account terms for its international buyers without placing pressure on working capital.
How Longer Payment Terms Strained a Manufacturer’s Liquidity
The client is a cable manufacturer with over 30 years of operating history in Vietnam. For most of that period, the company relied on advance payments and letters of credit to manage its export transactions.
As competition in global cable supply increased, buyers began requiring open account terms as a condition of continued business. The exporter transitioned accordingly, but the shift created a significant gap between production costs and the moment of payment collection.
The company had export credit insurance in place, which provided partial protection against buyer default. However, the residual risk exposure of 10 to 20 percent remained uncovered, and the insurance did not address the working capital shortfall that came with extended payment cycles. Despite a strong order book and established buyer relationships, the exporter’s cash position was under pressure.
How the Facility Works: Converting Receivables into Working Capital
Tradewind structured a non-recourse export factoring facility aligned with the client’s trade flows to the United States and Australia. The facility operates as follows:
This structure replaces the partial protection previously offered by export credit insurance with a more comprehensive solution that covers both the financing gap and the full buyer credit risk on approved receivables.
What This Means for the Exporter
With the facility in place, the exporter can offer 90-day payment terms to its buyers without absorbing the cash flow impact internally. Production cycles are no longer constrained by the timing of buyer payments, and the company has a predictable source of liquidity tied directly to its shipment activity.
The non-recourse structure also removes a layer of financial uncertainty. Rather than relying on insurance with residual exposure, the exporter now operates with full credit coverage on approved buyers through Tradewind’s facility.
Why Tradewind Was Selected
Tradewind was selected for its ability to structure receivables financing solutions for cross-border trade flows involving multiple buyer markets. Key factors in the decision included:
A Facility Built Around the Client’s Trade Flows
“This facility gives the client a reliable source of working capital tied directly to its export activity,” said Chris Chang, Regional Commercial Director, Far East at Tradewind Shanghai. “By structuring the solution around their specific trade flows to the United States and Australia, we were able to address both the financing gap and the credit risk exposure in a single facility.”
Facing Similar Pressure from Extended Buyer Payment Terms?
Tradewind structures receivables financing solutions for exporters managing cash flow across international trade corridors. Whether you are dealing with longer payment cycles, buyer credit risk, or the operational complexity of cross-border collections, we can help you find the right structure for your situation.
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Founded in 2000, Tradewind Finance is a global trade finance company specialising in cross-border receivables financing, export factoring, supply chain finance, and credit protection. Tradewind maintains a network of offices across Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Hong Kong SAR, Hungary, India, Pakistan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, alongside its headquarters in Germany. By combining financing, credit protection, and collections into a single integrated solution, Tradewind helps exporters and importers manage working capital, reduce risk, and grow their international trade with confidence.
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A legitimate Intel storage utility has been repurposed in a highly targeted malware campaign that uses a little-known. NET mechanism to run hostile code inside a signed executable, giving attackers a quieter path into corporate networks and making detection far harder for many security products. The operation, identified as PhantomCLR, has been observed against financial institutions and other organisations across the Middle East and the wider […]
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This year’s ESG Achievement Awards are centred around the theme “Shaping a Resilient Future Through People and ESG,” placing a strong emphasis on ESG education and human capital development. In today’s fast-evolving landscape, organisations are increasingly recognising that sustainable success depends not only on strategy, but on equipping people with the right skills, capabilities, and mindset. This year, entrants are invited to showcase how they embed ESG into their culture, invest in talent development, and foster accountability and employee engagement in ESG across all levels of the organisation.
In addition to continuing to recognise holistic ESG excellence across environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance, the Awards introduce new award that reflect evolving market priorities. And the newly launched Outstanding Women Empowerment Awards will celebrate organisations that drive measurable progress in gender equality, workplace inclusion, and leadership representation.
Mr Paul Pong, Co-Founder of IESGB, highlighted the significance of this year’s theme, stating, “As ESG continues to mature, we are seeing that resilience is built not only through strategy, but through people who understand how to turn ESG principles into action. This year’s Awards are designed to recognise organisations that are investing in human capital, reinforcing ESG ownership, and embedding sustainability into the way they work every day.”
Mr Vincent Pang, Chairman of the Jury Panel, shared his perspective, saying,”What truly distinguishes the strongest entries is not just ambition, but tangible evidence — measurable progress, genuine execution, and long-term impact. Under this year’s theme ‘Shaping a Resilient Future Through People and ESG,’ we are especially looking for organisations that embed ESG into their culture, invest in human capital development and ESG education, and drive meaningful inclusion and women’s empowerment.”
The Awards will continue to honour excellence across a comprehensive range of categories, covering corporate ESG performance, innovative projects, sustainable vision, talent development, and individual leadership. With a distinguished and diverse jury panel comprising experts from academia, finance, corporate governance, and sustainability, submissions will be evaluated based on impact, innovation, transparency, and alignment with ESG principles. Winners of the ESG Achievement Awards 2025/2026 will be celebrated at the prestigious Awards Ceremony Luncheon, scheduled for September 2026. The Awards continue to serve as a leading platform for knowledge exchange, peer learning, and recognition of best practices that contribute to a more sustainable and resilient economy.
Award Categories
| Category | Sub-Categories |
| 1. ESG Benchmark Awards | 1.1) Outstanding Performance in Environmental Responsibility
1.2) Outstanding Performance in Social Responsibility 1.3) Outstanding Performance in ESG Governance |
| 2. Outstanding ESG Awards | 2.1) Listed Company
2.2) Non-Listed Company 2.3) NGO /NPO |
| 3. (New) Outstanding Women Empowerment Awards | 3.1) Company /Organisation |
| 4. Outstanding ESG Product and Service Awards | 4.1) Company /Organisation |
| 5. Outstanding Fund Manager’s Choice Awards | 5.1) Only applicable to entrants from Category 1 &2.1 (Listed Company). |
| 6. Outstanding Sustainable Vision Awards | 6.1) Company /Organisation |
| 7. Outstanding ESG Innovative Project Awards | 7.1) Company /Organisation |
| 8. Outstanding ESG Talent Development Awards | 8.1) Company /Organisation |
| 9. ESG Elite Awards | 9.1) Individual |
| 10. Honorary Awards (By invitation only) | 10.1) Company /Organisation
10.2) Individual 10.3) Outstanding Sustainability Dividend Awards |
Key Dates (Subject to change)
| Date | Key Milestone |
| 20 April | Awards Launch & Open for Application |
| Early Bird: 15 May
Standard: 15 June |
Application Deadline |
| July | Judging Period |
| July | Presentations to the Jury Panel
*Upon confirmation for applicants requiring presentation |
| August | Finalist Announcement |
| September | Award Ceremony Luncheon *Subject to venue availability |
Jury Panel (in alphabetical order of last name)
| Full Name | Post |
| Chairman of Jury Panel | |
| Mr Vincent Pang | Managing Partner AVISTA Group |
| Vice Chairman of Jury Panel | |
| Ms Ashley Khoo | Past President CFA Society Hong Kong |
| Jury Panel Members | |
| Ms Fanny Chan | Chief Human Resources Officer CTF Life |
| Ms Mabel Chan | Veteran of mutual fund industry Co-host of Metro Finance Radio HK Accredited Mediator AALCO Sports AMed |
| Ms Lovinia Chiu | Founder, Chairman & CEO Medialink Group Limited (2230.HK) |
| Prof Rebecca Choy Yung | Founder & Chair Golden Age Foundation |
| Mr Roy Fan | Head of Sustainability, Climate Change and ESG Services SWCS Corporate Services Group (Hong Kong) Limited |
| Ms Loretta Fong | Sustainability Assurance Leader PwC Hong Kong |
| Ms Grace Kwok | Chairman and Executive Director Allied Sustainability and Environmental Consultants Group Limited |
| Ir Prof C.F. Lam | Organizing Committee Member Hong Kong Green Strategy Alliance |
| HON Robert Lee, JP | Legislative Council Member Functional Constituency – Financial Services |
| Ir Edmund K H Leung | Vice-President Hong Kong Institute of Director |
| Ms Nana Li | Head of Sustainability & Stewardship, Asia-Pacific, Director Impax Asset Management |
| Dr Kenny Tang | Chairman The Hong Kong Institute of Financial Analysts and Professional Commentators |
| Dr Aries Wong | Senior Lecturer, Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance Associate Director of Centre for Sustainable Development Studies Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Mr Mike Wong | Chief Executive Officer The Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies |
| Ms Jessie Yu BBS, MH, JP | Chief Executive Hong Kong Single Parents Association |
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Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Prestige One Developments has begun handing over Vista, a 140-home residential project in Dubai Sports City, marking a delivery milestone for the developer as it expands construction activity across the emirate. The handover comes as Prestige One says it has more than 20 active developments under way and about 2,500 residential units under construction, underscoring how mid-sized developers are trying to convert off-plan […]
Anthropic’s Claude Opus has been thrust into a fresh security debate after researcher Mohan Pedhapati said he used the model to help build a working V8 exploit chain that achieved code execution against an outdated Chromium build bundled with Discord. Pedhapati, CTO of Hacktron and known online as s1r1us, said the exercise ran over about a week, consumed 2.3 billion tokens, cost $2,283 in API fees and […]
eToro has relaunched its AI investing companion Tori with a stronger claim to immediacy, adding real-time market sentiment drawn from X through Grok 4.2, persistent memory across sessions and a new conversational tool for creating and managing AI-driven “Agent Portfolios”. The move, announced on 16 April, places artificial intelligence more squarely at the centre of the platform’s retail investing strategy as brokers compete to turn chat […]
Enterprises are moving into a more consequential phase of artificial intelligence adoption, one in which software no longer just drafts, suggests or summarises but can carry out multi-step work across finance, customer service, coding, procurement and compliance. That shift is forcing boards, risk teams and technology leaders to rethink an assumption that has shaped enterprise software for decades: if a human still presses the final button, responsibility […]
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Tether has moved to support a $150 million recovery package for Solana-based Drift Protocol after the trading platform was hit by one of the biggest crypto exploits of the year, with the plan aimed at repaying affected users over time and helping relaunch the protocol under tighter security controls. Drift said the package would include up to $127.5 million from Tether and a further $20 million […]
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 17 April 2026 – TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced a strategic engagement with Anthropic, embedding Claude models across its platform to power agentic workflows, automation, AI-native security operations, and develop threat research to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems and infrastructure. TrendAI™ will use Claude to advance vulnerability discovery while ensuring coordinated action in real-world risk reduction.
Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™: “We launched TrendAI™ to define the AI security category. This next phase is about scaling that vision globally, with leading partners like Anthropic. Our broad, strategic collaboration across research, defense, and innovation will define how AI is secured moving forward.”
TrendAI™’s use of Claude spans threat research, real-world risk reduction, platform innovation, and global go-to-market execution. This will operate across the full AI security lifecycle, from vulnerability discovery to automated defense and AI-native operations.
Ash Alhashim, Head of Cybersecurity GTM at Anthropic: “For 35 years, TrendAI™ has been at the forefront of cybersecurity. By using Claude to power TrendAI Vision One™ and initiatives like TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) and Pwn2Own, TrendAI™ is advancing the next iteration of vulnerability discovery and reporting—and tilting the scales toward defenders.”
Focus areas include:
Advancing AI Threat Research: TrendAI™ is scaling its threat research to address the growing attack surface of AI, building on proven programs like Pwn2Own Berlin under TrendAI™ ZDI. This approach brings real-world vulnerability discoveries into AI systems, helping identify and address critical weaknesses before it reaches production environments.
Driving AI-Native Innovation: Anthropic’s Claude models will help power TrendAI™’s platform innovation, enhancing agentic workflows, automation, and AI-native security operations. This enables organizations to reduce noise, act faster, and scale security alongside AI adoption.
The announcement comes as TrendAI™ prepares to welcome over 600 cybersecurity leaders to its Spark Leadership Exchange in Phoenix, Arizona in May. Anthropic will join TrendAI™ on stage at the event alongside other industry leaders, reinforcing a shared commitment to shaping the future of AI security and engaging directly with global enterprise leaders.
To learn more about the Spark Leadership Exchange, visit: https://resources.trendmicro.com/spark-leadership-exchange.html
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TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities to infrastructure to data. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on TrendAI™ to cut risk and stop threats up to three months earlier, powered by world-leading threat and attack intelligence. Through deep ecosystem partnerships with market leaders like NVIDIA, Anthropic, AWS, Google, and Microsoft, TrendAI™ empowers your organization to securely drive forward at the speed of AI. AI Fearlessly. Learn more at trendaisecurity.com.
Flow Capital Partners is preparing to place a $150 million private credit fund on a blockchain-based platform in Singapore by the end of April, a move that pushes Asia’s fast-growing private lending market deeper into digital distribution and tests whether tokenised fund structures can broaden access without diluting regulatory controls. The plan places the Hong Kong-based manager among a small group of firms in the region using […]
Cyber criminals are pushing a Windows information stealer called NWHStealer through bogus software downloads that masquerade as Proton VPN installers, gaming mods and hardware utilities, in a campaign that security researchers say relies less on classic phishing and more on users searching for tools they believe are legitimate. Malwarebytes said on April 15 that it had identified multiple active distribution chains tied to the stealer, with malicious […]
