Electoral Commission launches the National Voter Registration Campaign at tertiary institutions, 22 Mar

The Electoral Commission of South Africa, in partnership with the University of Witwatersrand and the Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) is to launch the National Voter Registration Campaign that will be rolled out at all South Africa’s tertiary institutions.

The objective of the campaign is to encourage South Africa’s youth to take advantage of the online voter registration facility and take a step to be part of decisions about their own future.

Keynote speakers at the event include Sy Mamabolo, the Commission’s Chief Electoral Officer, Jerome September, the Dean of Student Affairs at Wits University and Ntandoyenkosi Kunene,

education activist and former Miss South Africa 2016.

Commission staff will be on hand to assist students with online registration, answer questions and demonstrate the latest digital registrations device.

Source: Government of South Africa

Call for Entries Issued for the 2022 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers

Seventh Annual Honors for Employers and HR Professionals is Accepting Nominations

FAIRFAX, Va., March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Stevie Awards has issued the call for entries for the seventh annual Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, which honor the world’s best companies to work for and the human resources teams, professionals, suppliers, and new products and services that help to create and drive great places to work.

All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit, and non-profit, large and small – may submit nominations to the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The early-bird entry deadline, with reduced entry fees, is April 27. The final entry deadline is June 8, but late entries will be accepted through July 7 with payment of a late fee. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.

Juries composed of scores of executives around the world will determine the Stevie Award winners. Winners will be announced on August 8. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be presented their awards at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on September 17.

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize achievement in many facets of the workplace. Categories include:

There are new categories in 2022 for Thought Leadership including Achievement in Thought Leadership Skills, Achievement in Thought Leadership Talent, Achievement in Thought Leadership for Recruitment, Achievements in Internal Thought Leadership, and HR Thought Leader of the Year.

Fourteen of the 16 HR Individual categories do not require payment of entry fees.

Winners in the 31 industry-specific Employer of the Year categories will be determined by a unique blend of public votes and professional ratings. Public voting will take place from July 11 – August 1.

Stevie Award winners in 2021 included Allied Irish Banks (Ireland), Bank of America (USA), IBM (USA), Dell Technologies (USA), Everise (Singapore), Fullscript (Canada), Globe Telecom (Philippines), MGM China (China), PT. Bank Central Asia Tbk (Indonesia), Rakuten USA, Salary.com (USA), Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. (Turkey), Upwork (USA), and many more.

About the Stevie® Awards:
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

Marketing Contact:
Nina Moore
[email protected]

Shufti Pro annonce un financement de série A de 20 millions de dollars pour accélérer sa croissance

Le fournisseur de solutions de vérification d’identité de renommée mondiale, Shufti Pro, a annoncé avoir levé 20 millions de dollars en financement de série A dirigé par Updata Partners pour accélérer l’expansion mondiale et améliorer le développement des produits.

LONDRES, 17 mars 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Shufti Pro, un leader mondial du marché des solutions de vérification d’identité alimentées par l’IA, a annoncé avoir levé 20 millions de dollars en financement de série A dirigé par Updata Partners, une société de capital de croissance axée sur la technologie.

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Cet investissement sera utilisé pour accélérer l’expansion mondiale de Shufti Pro en fournissant des ressources supplémentaires pour pousser sa solution entièrement automatisée vers de nouveaux marchés afin d’aider à résoudre le processus de vérification d’identité insatisfaisant des organisations, améliorer ses solutions de vérification d’identité et étendre la suite de conformité de la société.

Le mantra de Shufti Pro est de fournir une expérience client numérique transparente lorsqu’il s’agit de connaître sa clientèle, et en tant que tel, l’organisation fournit une gamme diversifiée de solutions avec la vérification d’identité au cœur de ses préoccupations. Avec l’évolution du monde et l’accélération de la transformation numérique, les services d’identité numérique sont devenus la pierre angulaire de toute organisation cherchant à vérifier l’identité de ses clients.

Alors que les entreprises poursuivent leur transformation numérique, s’appuyer sur des partenaires de vérification d’identité de confiance est devenu plus important que jamais. Victor Fredung, PDG de Shufti Pro, a déclaré : « Notre plateforme configurable et entièrement automatisée permet aux clients d’intégrer un processus de vérification sans friction spécifique à leurs objectifs commerciaux et offre la flexibilité nécessaire pour répondre aux exigences de confidentialité et de sécurité des données, y compris la possibilité de déployer une solution sur site. Nous nous efforçons de fournir la couverture mondiale exigée par les organisations sans frontières. »

Il existe un besoin mondial d’une solution flexible et conforme pour l’intégration, la vérification des antécédents et la gestion qui fonctionne au-delà des frontières sans préjudice des régions, des types d’entreprises et des langues. Le monde appelle à une solution plus large à sa crise numérique et Shufti Pro répond à ces questions par des capacités uniques :

Automatisation : la solution entièrement automatisée la plus avancée.

Couverture mondiale de diverses capacités de lecture dans toutes les langues principales, y compris l’arabe.

Configurable et hautement personnalisable tout en se spécialisant dans des exigences uniques. Notre solution peut être installée sur site, ce qui constitue un avantage unique sur le marché. Nous nous conformons aux exigences réglementaires les plus strictes, telles que VideoKYC en Allemagne ou la conservation des données aux Émirats arabes unis.

Selon Shahid Hanif, fondateur et directeur technique de Shufti Pro, la société compte déjà plus de 500 clients dans le monde. Il a ajouté : « Ce cycle de financement visait à trouver un partenaire stratégique possédant l’expérience et les connaissances nécessaires, ce que nous pensons avoir trouvé. Nous pouvons maintenant développer des produits plus intéressants et résoudre les problèmes d’intégration et de conformité rencontrés dans le monde entier. »

Depuis plus de 20 ans, Updata, une entreprise qui croit en la création de résultats exceptionnels pour les clients, les employés et les actionnaires, a soutenu les entrepreneurs de logiciels B2B qui ont un état d’esprit de croissance et reconnaissent l’efficacité du capital.

« Nous avons été impressionnés par les progrès technologiques et commerciaux réalisés par une entreprise amorcée. Shufti Pro est prête à s’appuyer sur cette base solide et à accélérer sa croissance »,  a déclaré Braden Snyder, associé chez Updata Partners.

À propos de Shufti Pro

Shufti Pro est un fournisseur de services de vérification d’identité offrant des services concernant les consommateurs, les entreprises et le blanchiment d’argent pour aider les entreprises internationales à intégrer et à gérer le risque des clients légitimes. L’entreprise basée au Royaume-Uni dispose de 5 bureaux régionaux et a lancé 17 produits de vérification d’identité différents depuis sa création en 2017. Avec la possibilité de vérifier les documents d’identité à l’échelle mondiale dans plus de 150 langues, Shufti Pro sert des clients dans plus de 230 pays et territoires.

Pour plus d’informations :

Graeme Rowe

Responsable du marketing | Shufti Pro

[email protected]

+44 1225290329

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Chargebee Launches Industry’s First E-Invoicing Service with Spring 2022 Product Release, Also Featuring Increased Automation Capabilities

Spring update to support tax, revenue recognition and regional compliance mandates to help customers expand globally

San Francisco, CA, March 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fresh off its recent round of funding, Chargebee, the leading subscription management platform, today announced the industry’s first e-invoicing service for high-performing SaaS and subscription-model businesses as the centerpiece of its Spring 2022 Product Release. The release includes updates geared towards enabling growth and efficiency for Chargebee customers, including taxation and revenue recognition features and a new Marketplace to automate billing workflows through a library of customizable integrations.

E-Invoicing

Countries across the world, including Brazil, France, Finland, Germany and India, are already mandating e-invoicing for Business to Government (B2G) transactions as a way of modernizing and simplifying tax reporting and payment and several countries, including Poland and France, will join Italy, Mexico and Chile in mandating e-invoicing for B2B transactions as early as 2023. Chargebee’s e-invoicing service will allow businesses seeking to expand operations globally to easily comply with local e-invoicing mandates and serve B2G and B2B customers in new regions.

“Chargebee has solved a huge problem for us,” said Gabriele Proni, co-founder and CTO of Voxloud, an Italian-based communications company. “Italy has some of the strictest e-invoicing mandates in the entire world, and without Chargebee’s e-invoicing service, we would have had to spend countless hours sending them out manually. Chargebee came in and helped automate the process, saving our team from spending unnecessary time and power and allowed us to focus on doing what we do best.”

Marketplace 

Automation is key to ensuring that modern billing systems are able to remain flexible and adaptable for businesses to succeed, especially for SaaS and subscription models, and is taking on a large role in Chargebee’s 2022 Spring Product Release.

Chargebee’s Marketplace enables businesses to build their billing systems on top of Chargebee, allowing for more and better integrations by connecting merchants with a wide catalog of available integrations to choose from. Marketplace improves integrations with other apps end-to-end, from discovery to sign-up, automating billing workflows and use cases.

Taxation and Revenue Recognition 

In addition to e-invoicing and Marketplace, Chargebee adds taxation and revenue recognition capabilities to handle real-time changes based on customer demands. Through automation, Chargebee is providing subscription businesses with a new way to sync billing information and improve an organization’s financial efficiency and enabling them to meet the growing list of compliance requirements, including Value-Added Tax (“VAT” in Europe) and Tax Deduction at Source (“TDS” in India).

Compliance

As Chargebee continues to support expansion into new and different geographies, customers need not worry about the growing list of regional and local compliances they will face. Chargebee is now certified as HIPAA compliant with the “Privacy Rule”, “Security Rule” and “Breach Notification” as per the HIPAA Portability and Accountability Act to support customers in the healthcare industry. In addition, Chargebee is also compliant with PCI and GDPR standards and adheres to ISO, SOC1, SOC2 and MFA standards.

Global Growth 

“Global and product expansion is a big part of Chargebee’s 2022-and-beyond roadmap, and we know that our customers are always looking to scale up, increase capabilities and enter new territories,” said John Pearce, Vice President of Product Management at Chargebee.  “There are tons of constantly changing rules and regulations that could inhibit growth, and our new offerings are designed to help our customers offload these concerns and focus on building and maintaining business.”

The Chargebee Spring 2022 Product Release full list of features includes:

  • E-invoicing for India and the European Union
  • Tax Withholding (TDS)
  • Subscriptions Marketplace
  • New Salesforce Integration UX
  • GST Breakdown (Australia)
  • Revenue Recognition through acquisition of RevLock
  • Retention through acquisition of Brightback
  • Receivables through acquisition of numberz
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • SOC-2 Compliance

These latest product enhancements come on the heels of a $250 million funding round that valued the company at $3.5 billion and was geared towards Chargebee’s global expansion. Recent acquisitions of Brightback (customer retention), RevLock (revenue recognition) and numberz (receivables) will also strengthen Chargebee’s offerings to enable end-to-end management of subscriptions and revenue data.

To learn more about Chargebee’s Spring 2022 Product Release, please visit https://www.chargebee.com/blog/spring-release-2022.

Penny Desatnik
Chargebee
[email protected]

Shufti Pro Announces $20 Million Series A Funding to Accelerate Growth

Globally acclaimed IDV solution provider, Shufti Pro, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A Funding led by Updata Partners to accelerate global expansion and enhance product development.

LONDON, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A global market leader in AI-powered IDV solutions, Shufti Pro, has announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Updata Partners, a tech-focused growth equity firm.

The investment will be used to accelerate Shufti Pro’s global expansion providing additional resources to push their completely automated solution to new markets to help solve organisation’s unsatisfactory IDV process, enhance its IDV solutions and extend the company’s compliance suite.

Shufti Pro’s mantra is to provide a seamless digital customer experience when it comes to KYC, and as such the organisation provides a diverse range of solutions with identity verification at its core. With the World changing and digital transformation accelerating, digital identity services have become the cornerstone of any organisation looking to verify the identity of customers.

As businesses continue to undergo digital transformation, relying on trusted IDV partners has become more important than ever. As stated by Victor Fredung, the CEO of Shufti Pro, Our configurable and fully automated platform allows customers to incorporate a frictionless verification process specific to their business objectives and provides the flexibility to address data privacy and security requirements, including the ability to deploy an on-premise solution. We strive to provide the global coverage demanded by borderless organisations.

There is a global need for a flexible and compliant solution for onboarding, background checks and management that operates across borders without the prejudice of regions, business types and languages. The World is calling for a broader solution to its digital crisis and Shufti Pro answers these questions with unique capabilities:

Automation – the most advanced fully automated solution.

Global coverage on various reading capabilities in all major languages including Arabic.

Configurable and highly customisable while specialising in unique requirements. Our solution can be installed on-premise which is a highly unique advantage in the market. We comply with even the most stringent regulatory requirements such as VideoKYC in Germany or data retention in UAE.

The company is already serving 500+ clients globally as per Founder and CTO of Shufti Pro, Shahid Hanif. He further said,The funding round was about finding a strategic partner that has the relevant experience and knowledge, which we truly believe we have found. We can now develop more exciting products and solve onboarding and compliance issues faced all over the World.”

For more than 20 years, Updata, a firm that believes in creating exceptional outcomes for customers, employees, and shareholders, has supported entrepreneurs in B2B software that have a growth mindset and acknowledge capital efficiency.

“We were impressed by the technology and commercial progress achieved by a bootstrapped business. Shufti Pro is poised to build on this strong foundation and accelerate growth.” – said Braden Snyder, Partner at Updata Partners.

About Shufti Pro

Shufti Pro is an identity verification service provider offering KYC, KYB, and AML services to help global businesses onboard and manage risk of legitimate customers. The UK-based company has 5 regional offices and launched 17 different IDV products since its inception in 2017. With the ability to verify ID documents globally in 150+ languages, Shufti Pro is serving customers in 230+ countries and territories.

For more information,
Graeme Rowe
Chief Marketing Officer | Shufti Pro
[email protected]
+44 1225290329

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UN adopts resolution promoting bicycles to combat climate change

UNITED NATIONS— The 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution Tuesday supporting bicycles as a tool for combatting climate change.

The resolution, proposed by Turkmenistan, was passed unanimously and like all General Assembly resolutions is non-binding.

It calls on member states to “integrate the bicycle into public transportation, in urban and rural settings in developing and developed countries.”

Increasing cycling through improved road safety and the promotion of bike-riding will help achieve “sustainable development, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” according to the resolution.

More specifically, the resolution encourages member states to “give special attention to cycling in cross-cutting development strategies, including bicycle sharing services,” as well as when possible in “international, regional, national and subnational development policies and programmes.”

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK