Month: May 2024

EDF announces the signature of green bank loans dedicated to the financing of the existing nuclear fleet, for an amount of c. 5.8 billion euros Paris, 13 May 2024. EDF (BBB stable S&P / Baa1 stable Moody’s / BBB+ stable Fitch) announces the signature of green bank loans for a total amount of c. €5.8 billion (1). They have maturities of between 3 and 5 years. These financings have been arranged with major international banks, including BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Crédit Agricole CIB (2), ING, Natixis CIB, Société Générale, Wells Fargo. The funds lent will be dedicated to the refinancing of the investments in existing nuclear fleet in France in relation to their lifetime extension, as defined in EDF’s Green Financing Framework (3). These investments are aligned with the European taxonomy. As the world’s leading producer of...

Today, May 13th, 2024, Coop Pank AS submitted an application to the Financial Supervision Authority for an additional activity license enabling the issuance of covered bonds. Obtaining an additional license is subject to regulatory approval and can be expected to take up to six months. After obtaining an additional activity license authorizing the issuance of covered bonds, the bank decides on the issue, volume and other conditions of the covered bond issue in accordance with the market situation and the bank’s financing needs at the time. The purpose of issuing covered bonds is to diversify the bank’s financing structure and raise stable long-term funds. At the expense of the included funds, the bank can finance additional lending activities and reduce the volume of more expensive term deposits. The more expensive deposits...

Improvements were observed for insulin resistance (insulin levels, HOMA-IR), lipid metabolism (triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol, apolipoproteins), control of glycemia (HbA1c, fasting glucose (FG) levels), systemic inflammation (hs-CRP, ferritin), hepatic steatosis and diastolic blood pressure. Among the patients who had prediabetes at study entry and were treated with lanifibranor, the majority had fasting glucose levels within the normal range at the end of treatment. No patient treated with lanifibranor with normal glucose levels at study entry progressed to prediabetes during treatment, unlike in the placebo arm. Adiponectin levels were increased by lanifibranor while they remained low and unchanged under placebo. Adiponectin increase was correlated with improvement of cardiometabolic health. A greater proportion of patients with MASH/NASH...

Press releaseNew Zealand’s 2degrees chooses Nokia 5G core software solutions running on Red Hat OpenShiftNokia Registers and Shared Data Layer swap out incumbent. Deal underlines communication service provider (CSP) aim of utilizing more open cloud architectures.13 May 2024Espoo, Finland – New Zealand communication service provider 2degrees has chosen Nokia’s 5G core Registers and Shared Data Layer (SDL) software, which will be deployed on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, to more cost-effectively manage data with increased reliability and serviceability for 2degrees’ approximately 1.6 million subscribers. An existing customer that uses Nokia 5G-based fixed wireless access services, 2degrees offers broadband and mobile services over 3G, 4G and 5G networks covering...

BRISBANE, Australia, May 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —New drilling at North American Lithium (NAL) operation with results from 91 drillholes and wedges totalling 26,605m has identified high-grade lithium mineralisation to the north-west, north-east, south-east and below the Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) pit shellNorth-West Extension – New Pegmatites32.88m @ 1.72% Li2O from 269.62m in drillhole LAN-23-094 19.35m @ 1.63% Li2O from 346.72m in drillhole LAN-23-095 20.05m @ 1.60% Li2O from 350.75m in drillhole LAN-23-139-W1Resources Area – Potential Resources Upgrade or Conversion47.50m @ 1.29% Li2O from 402.85m in drillhole LAN-23-034 25.65m @ 1.56% Li2O from 320.75m in drillhole LAN-23-044 43.25m @ 1.48% Li2O from 377.75m in drillhole LAN-23-053A 17.95m @ 1.81% Li2O from 168.80m in drillhole LAN-23-062 21.40m @ 1.43%...

PLANO, Texas, May 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stryve Foods, Inc. (“Stryve” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: SNAX), an emerging healthy snack and eating platform disrupting traditional consumer packaged goods (CPG) categories, and a leader in the air-dried meat snack industry in the United States, today announces that it will release its fiscal 2024 first quarter results on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, the Company has scheduled a conference call that will be hosted at 4:30 pm EDT Tuesday, May 14, 2024.By Phone:   Dial 1-800-717-1738 or 1-646-307-1865 at least 10 minutes before the call and ask to be joined into the Stryve call. A replay will be available through May 28, 2024, by dialing 1-844-512-2921 or 1-412-317-6671 and using the replay PIN number: 1154614#.     By Webcast:   Connect...

LUXEMBOURG, May 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tenaris S.A. (NYSE and Mexico: TS and EXM Italy: TEN) (“Tenaris”) announced today that pursuant to its Share Buyback Program (the “Program”) announced on November 1, 2023, covering up to USD 1.2 billion to be executed in the open market with the intent to cancel the ordinary shares acquired through the Program, Tenaris has entered into a non-discretionary buyback agreement with a primary financial institution (the “Bank”). The Bank will make its trading decisions concerning the timing of the purchases of Tenaris’s ordinary shares independently of and uninfluenced by Tenaris and will act in compliance with applicable rules and regulations, including the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (the “Regulations”). Under the buyback agreement,...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS RESTRICTION MAY CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF U.S. SECURITIES LAW CALGARY, Alberta, May 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) (“High Arctic” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors (“Board”) has unanimously approved the reorganization of High Arctic to separate the Corporation’s North American and Papua New Guinea (“PNG”) businesses, by way of a court-approved plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”), as well as a distribution of surplus cash to shareholders by way of a return of capital of up to $38.2 million (up to $0.76 per common share) of High Arctic (the “Return of Capital”)....