Day: October 21, 2019

BOSTON, Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ:EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that helps make business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced the expansion of its Digital Banking IQ™ suite with the launch of its Real-Time Payments module, utilizing the RTP® network from The Clearing House. Designed to speed up, streamline, simplify and enrich the business-to-business payments process, the new product capability enables a bank’s corporate customers to send and receive real-time payments, to request a payment, and to leverage complete and integrated information.“Customer engagement is central to creating real, sustainable value in financial services. Real-Time Payments represents an important new means to that end. Smart banks are focusing more on the value of the end-to-end...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LPL Financial LLC, a leading retail investment advisory firm and independent broker-dealer, today announced that financial advisors Thomas Varga Jr., CPA, CLU, ChFC and Chris Varga have joined LPL Financial’s broker-dealer and corporate registered investment advisor (RIA) platforms. They reported having served approximately $150 million in brokerage and advisory assets*. They join from Cadaret Grant.Thomas founded Financial Associates in 1986 as a unique, specialized firm offering multiple services including investment advice, individual income taxes, estate planning, retirement plans, and life insurance. His son Chris joined the South Bend, Ind., practice in 2012 as a licensed associate advisor, leaving behind a career as a personal assistant to a musician with the Dave Matthews...

Calls Out Velan’s Pattern of Disregard for Good Corporate Governance and Business EthicsReminds Shareholders to Sign and Return Progenics’ WHITE Consent Revocation CardNEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGNX), an oncology company developing innovative targeted medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer, today issued the following letter that it intends to mail to shareholders, highlighting Velan Capital L.P.’s (“Velan”) history of poor corporate governance, bad faith negotiating and the uncertainty surrounding its recently announced, unproven strategic plan.October 21, 2019Dear Fellow Shareholder,You have an important decision to make regarding your investment in Progenics. As you are likely aware, Velan Capital, L.P. (“Velan”), an 11.7% shareholder, is...

HOUSTON, Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL) today announced that all regulatory approvals required to complete the acquisition of Buckeye by entities affiliated with the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund previously announced on May 10, 2019 (the “proposed merger”) have been received. The merger agreement relating to the proposed merger and the transactions contemplated thereby were previously approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of Buckeye’s outstanding limited partner units on July 31, 2019. The completion of the proposed merger is currently expected to occur prior to market opening on Friday, November 1, 2019, subject to the provisions of the merger agreement, including the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions. As previously announced, upon completion of...

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Golden Leaf Holdings, (CSE: GLH) (OTCQB: GLDFF) (“Golden Leaf” or the “Company”), a pioneering cannabis company with cultivation, production and retail built around recognized brands, announced the appointment of Jane Sullivan to the newly created role of Chief People Officer.  Ms. Sullivan will lead the development and execution of the Company’s global people strategy, reporting to CEO Jeff Yapp. Ms. Sullivan brings 30 years of experience in Human Resources, designing and executing people strategies across geographically dispersed organizations.  She has designed and built scalable solutions for employee relations, talent acquisition, talent management, and leadership development. Her focus is achieving operational excellence through advanced human resources strategies. Prior to...

HOLLISTON, Mass., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: HBIO) announced today that Ken Olson has been named Vice President and General Manager, Pre-Clinical Systems (DSI), reporting to Chairman, President and CEO, Jim Green.Olson will lead the Pre-Clinical Systems Team, which is comprised of the Data Sciences International team focused on delivering market leading preclinical products, systems, and services to the drug discovery and development industry.Green said, “I am thrilled Ken is joining our team. This is a key appointment to the leadership team. Ken brings a strong track record in technology and development, operating leadership and strategic customer relationships.”Olson, formerly Sr. Vice President, Global Engineering and Operations at Spacelabs Healthcare, is a highly accomplished leader in...

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Petroteq Energy Inc. (“Petroteq” or the “Company”) (TSXV:PQE; OTC:PQEFF; FSE: PQCF), a fully integrated surface oil sands clean recovery mining oil company with proprietary technology, is pleased to announce that the Company has achieved stabilized production rates and sales of heavy oil from its Asphalt Ridge Facility in Utah. Since re-commissioning the plant in September 2019, the Company has achieved the following:cumulative sales of 1,000 barrels of heavy oilstabilized production rate of 200 bbl/per day from the facilities current daily 12 hour shiftoil quality (namely, clay percent and oil thickness) to meet the requirements of specific buyersIn addition, production numbers are anticipated to improve from an expected automation of the facilities centrifuge process which...

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ROCHESTER, Mich., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OptimizeRx Corp. (Nasdaq: OPRX), a leading platform for digital health messaging in the pharmaceutical industry, is sponsoring the WOMEN at HLTH program at HLTH 2019, the nation’s largest conference focused on health innovation. The conference is being held on October 27-30, 2019 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.HLTH is a one-of-a-kind ecosystem event for the health industry, bringing together more than 5,000 senior leaders to address the most pressing problems facing healthcare today. The event attracts senior leaders from payers, providers, employers, investors, fast-growing startups, pharma, policymakers and innovation centers, who together are looking to actualize the most promising solutions.WOMEN at HLTH is a series of activities at HLTH focused on advancing and empowering women....