Connecting Real-World Distribution with Web3 to Drive the Growth of Participating Companies, Users, and the KCT Ecosystem
United Kingdom, 10th Sep 2026 – Blockchain project Konnect is preparing to build a global distribution ecosystem based on real-world assets (RWAs), centered around its KINC platform. KINC is being designed to connect real-world international distribution businesses with the blockchain ecosystem, enabling resources raised around verified distribution opportunities to be deployed across real-world business operations.
Rather than focusing solely on the issuance of digital assets, the platform aims to support product sourcing, cross-border distribution, sales channel expansion, and connections among business participants.
Through KINC, Konnect is preparing a framework in which resources raised through the ecosystem can be used for product sourcing, supply chain operations, the establishment of local distribution channels, marketing, and user acquisition.
The initiative is intended to support the growth of participating distribution companies while creating multiple opportunities for users to engage with the global distribution ecosystem.
Within this ecosystem, KCT is expected to serve as a core digital asset connecting platform participation, rewards, service usage, and various on-chain activities.
Konnect aims to create a virtuous cycle in which the expansion of real-world distribution businesses drives increased platform usage, which in turn broadens the utility of KCT.
Konnect is currently discussing potential collaborations with local businesses and prospective partners across two to three countries.
These discussions cover country-specific product supply and sales channels, local distribution infrastructure, user acquisition, and the integration of real-world distribution operations into the RWA ecosystem.
Further details will be announced as the relevant reviews and discussions are completed.
KINC is not intended to directly issue or manage investment products.
Instead, it aims to operate as a platform that connects verified real-world distribution businesses with ecosystem participants while providing the necessary information and technical infrastructure.
Services will be introduced progressively, subject to the applicable laws and regulations of each jurisdiction and the specific structure of each asset and business opportunity.
“KINC’s approach to RWA goes beyond the simple tokenization of real-world assets. Our goal is to connect the resources and participants needed by active global distribution businesses, creating a structure in which participating companies, ecosystem users, and the practical utility of KCT can grow together.”
“We are currently discussing specific applications with partners across several countries. As our technology development and business discussions progress, we will share key milestones through our official channels,” the representative added.
Going forward, Konnect plans to combine global distribution data with blockchain technology through KINC while progressively enhancing features such as AI-powered product demand analysis, market-specific distribution strategy optimization, and business opportunity assessment.
Through these initiatives, Konnect aims to establish a sustainable global distribution RWA ecosystem that connects the real economy with Web3.
REAL BUSINESS. GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION. SUSTAINABLE WEB3 UTILITY.
Piazza Lucio Dalla hosts the Volunteer Ministers exhibition through 8 September, combining practical tools for everyday difficulties with first-hand accounts from communities assisted after floods and earthquakes
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 10th Sep 2026 — A travelling yellow tent operated by the Scientology Volunteer Ministers has opened in Bologna’s Piazza Lucio Dalla, bringing to the city an exhibition focused on practical methods for helping people confront difficulties in everyday life, alongside photographs and accounts documenting volunteer work carried out during emergencies in Italy and internationally.
The initiative was inaugurated on Sunday, 30 August, before around 100 people and is scheduled to remain in the square through 8 September. Inside the large yellow pavilion, information panels and videos present approaches to subjects including communication, interpersonal relationships, study, work, marriage, raising children and coping with environments that may be experienced as unsafe or difficult.
The opening took on a particularly local character through the participation of three guests who had encountered the Volunteer Ministers not through an exhibition, but during emergencies affecting their own communities: Luca Vecchiettini, Mayor of Pianoro; Fabrizio Lazzarini, a restaurateur from Pianoro; and Andrea Ferrarini, former president of the Radio Club Contea Nord civil protection group in Bondeno.
Their accounts connected the educational material displayed inside the tent with the less visible work that often follows floods, earthquakes and other emergencies: clearing mud, supporting relief operations, helping residents restore damaged premises and assisting communities as they begin returning to everyday life.
Pianoro: a relationship born after the 2024 floods
Mayor Vecchiettini recalled the relationship established between the Municipality of Pianoro and the Volunteer Ministers following the severe flooding that struck the Bologna metropolitan area in October 2024.
The emergency caused extensive disruption across Bologna and neighbouring municipalities, including Pianoro and the Val di Zena, areas that experienced repeated extreme weather events during 2023 and 2024. The Emilia-Romagna regional authorities documented the scale of the recovery work undertaken in Pianoro and surrounding localities.
Vecchiettini, whose responsibilities include civil protection and community affairs, described at the Bologna ceremony the friendship that developed between the local administration and the volunteers during the recovery effort. His institutional responsibilities are listed by the Municipality of Pianoro.
Fabrizio Lazzarini offered a more personal recollection. His restaurant was among the premises overwhelmed by mud following the October flooding. A group of Scientology volunteers assisted with the clean-up, and the restaurant subsequently became an informal base for people involved in relief activities arriving in Pianoro from different areas.
During the inauguration, Lazzarini recalled the difficult days following the flooding and expressed his appreciation for the assistance received by his business and the surrounding community.
The third account reached further back into Emilia-Romagna’s recent history. Andrea Ferrarini spoke about the aftermath of the 2012 earthquake and the assistance provided in communities including Bondeno and Medolla.
The earthquake triggered extensive civil-protection and volunteer mobilisation across the region. The Italian Scientology-associated civil-protection organisation PROCIVICOS records formal acknowledgements received for volunteer assistance provided after emergencies, including recognition connected with the response in Medolla following the 2012 earthquake.
The three testimonies formed the central human element of the Bologna opening, illustrating how relationships established during emergencies can continue long after the immediate crisis has passed.
From emergency response to everyday difficulties
Following the ribbon-cutting, visitors entered the tent to see a photographic exhibition of Volunteer Ministers activities and material explaining the programme’s broader purpose.
Although their yellow shirts have become particularly associated with emergency response, the Volunteer Ministers programme was not conceived solely for disaster situations.
The programme was established in 1976 by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, as a religious social-service initiative intended to provide practical assistance to people confronting difficulties in their lives.
The programme is supported internationally by the Church of Scientology, and its training materials address such subjects as communication, study, relationships, marriage, parenting, workplace difficulties, stress and the achievement of personal goals.
Over the decades, an international Volunteer Ministers disaster-response network has developed alongside these community activities, with volunteers participating in relief operations following earthquakes, floods, fires and other emergencies.
That combination — preparedness for exceptional circumstances and attention to ordinary human problems — is central to the Bologna exhibition.
Rather than concentrating exclusively on images of disaster response, the displays also present methods intended to help individuals communicate more effectively, resolve difficulties and approach challenging situations in a more organised and constructive manner.
The approach reflects the broader purpose of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers programme: providing practical assistance in circumstances ranging from individual personal difficulties to large-scale emergencies.
Ivan Arjona, representative of the Church of Scientology to the European Union, OSCE, Council of Europe and United Nations, said:
“European communities depend not only on public institutions, but also on citizens who are prepared to help when another person or an entire neighbourhood faces difficulty. What has been remembered in Bologna — from the floods in Pianoro to the earthquake response in Emilia-Romagna — is a practical expression of solidarity. Helping people recover their ability to communicate, organise and move forward is closely connected with human dignity, civic responsibility and the values on which peaceful and resilient communities are built.”
The Bologna event also illustrates how a programme developed within a religious community can interact with municipal authorities, civil-protection organisations, businesses and individual citizens around practical forms of community assistance.
For the people who spoke at the inauguration, that relationship was based less on theory than on direct encounters during moments when additional help was needed.
Their presence in Piazza Lucio Dalla gave the exhibition a distinctly regional dimension, connecting the international history of the Volunteer Ministers programme with events experienced directly by communities in Emilia-Romagna.
The inauguration and the presence of the travelling tent in Bologna were also reported by BolognaToday.
A travelling programme across Italy
The Bologna installation forms part of a travelling initiative that has brought similar Volunteer Ministers exhibitions to cities across Italy.
Inside the tent, visitors can view photographic panels documenting humanitarian and community activities while learning about practical methods developed within Scientology for addressing everyday interpersonal and organisational problems.
The exhibition therefore presents two dimensions of the same programme: large-scale assistance during emergencies and practical support intended for everyday circumstances.
This distinction is significant because much of the Volunteer Ministers programme takes place outside disaster zones. Its methods were developed to address situations involving communication difficulties, conflict, study, work, relationships and other aspects of daily life.
In emergency settings, those same principles are applied in environments where organisation, cooperation and practical assistance can become especially important.
The Bologna tent remains in Piazza Lucio Dalla through 8 September, with the exhibition open daily from 10:00 to 23:00.
The Church of Scientology was founded on the religious philosophy developed by author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The Volunteer Ministers programme was created by Mr. Hubbard in 1976 as a practical social-service initiative through which Scientologists and other trained volunteers can assist individuals and communities.
Volunteer Ministers have participated in humanitarian and disaster-response activities in many countries, while also providing educational materials addressing communication, relationships, study, work and other challenges encountered in daily life.
Churches of Scientology, missions, groups and members are present throughout the European continent. The Church’s recognition as a charitable and bona fide religion continues to grow across European jurisdictions, alongside activities undertaken by Scientologists in the fields of education, prevention, human rights, humanitarian assistance and community betterment.
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Dubai, UAE, Sep 09, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Spire Solutions, the Middle East & Africa region’s leading cybersecurity solutions provider and value-added distributor, today announced its participation in GISEC Global 2026, taking place from 16–18 September 2026 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC), Expo City, Dubai. Under the theme “Reimagining Cybersecurity in the Era of AI & Quantum,” Spire Solutions will welcome customers, partners, and industry leaders to its stand at Hall 5, Booth A100, to explore its latest innovations across cybersecurity, cloud, data, and AI.
As the Official Distribution Partner since GISEC Global’s inception, Spire Solutions returns for its 15th consecutive year at one of the world’s largest cybersecurity gatherings, where over 25,000 InfoSec leaders, CISOs, and ethical hackers from more than 180 countries convene to explore the technologies shaping the region’s digital future.
At this year’s edition, Spire Solutions will showcase its full portfolio across four connected domains that collectively define the company’s approach to enabling a secure digital future:
Cybersecurity: Proactive threat detection, response and resilience, delivered around the clock.
Cloud: Secure, scalable cloud transformation without compromising control or visibility.
Data: Protecting, governing and unlocking the full value of enterprise data.
AI: Helping organisations harness AI safely, from strategy through to secure deployment.
“This year’s theme, ‘Reimagining Cybersecurity in the Era of AI & Quantum,’ could not be more timely,” said Sanjeev Walia, Founder & President of Spire Solutions. “We are entering an era in which artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the velocity and sophistication of cyber threats, while quantum computing is compelling organisations to reconsider foundational assumptions underpinning cryptography, identity and digital trust. For nearly two decades, Spire Solutions has worked alongside enterprises and governments across the region to build resilient security foundations. At GISEC Global 2026, we look forward to showing how our capabilities across cybersecurity, cloud, data and AI converge into a cohesive ecosystem, enabling our customers not merely to respond to an increasingly complex threat landscape, but to anticipate it, adapt to it, and innovate securely within it.”
At its booth, Spire Solutions and participating vendors will run live demonstrations and expert-led sessions covering real-world use cases in banking and finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, backed by more than 18 years of regional, on-the-ground expertise.
Spire Solutions will exhibit alongside leading technology partners, including:
Black Duck – Application Security Platform optimized for DevSecOps
Furl – AI-powered Autonomous Remediation Platform
SolarWinds – Observability, Database & IT Service Management
BigID – Data Discovery and Classification
SailPoint – Identity-first security for Humans, Machines, and AI
iVerify – Mobile EDR & Mobile Threat Hunting for iOS and Android
Tufin – NSPM & Application Connectivity Platform
Visitors can engage with Spire Solutions’ technical and business teams, as well as participating vendor experts at the booth, to exchange perspectives on emerging security challenges and explore solutions tailored to their organisation’s priorities.
For over 18 years, Spire Solutions has been a driving force in digital transformation across the Middle East and Africa, establishing itself as the region’s foremost value-added distributor. We have consistently led the way in securing digital ecosystems and protecting organisations from ever-evolving threats. At Spire Solutions, our mission goes beyond technology. We are dedicated to building a safer, smarter, more innovative, and resilient digital community. By empowering enterprises and governments with specialised, strategic, and secure solutions, we enable them to confidently navigate the complexities of the digital age. For more information, visit www.spiresolutions.com
The new blower delivers up to 600 CFM and 115 MPH for fall cleanup; first shown in person at JAPAN DIY HOMECENTER SHOW 2026
Irvine, CA, United States, 9th Sep 2026 – Teslong announced the launch of its new 20V Brushless Leaf Blower, a lightweight 20V outdoor power tool designed to help homeowners handle frequent fall cleanup and routine debris clearing with less effort. The blower combines up to 600 CFM of air volume and 115 MPH of airspeed with a five-position adjustable air duct that directs airflow without requiring users to constantly bend, reach or reposition the tool.
Autumn leaf cleanup is rarely a one-weekend task. Wind and ongoing leaf drop can refill driveways, walkways, fence lines and patio corners shortly after they are cleared, creating a need for equipment that is quick to pick up and comfortable to use repeatedly. Teslong developed the blower for those recurring residential jobs rather than extended commercial landscaping.
Teslong presented the blower in person for the first time at the 62nd JAPAN DIY HOMECENTER SHOW 2026, held Aug. 27-29 at Makuhari Messe in Japan. The show gave DIY enthusiasts, home-improvement buyers and other industry visitors an opportunity to experience the product firsthand and see how the adjustable tube changes both angle and reach.
“Fall cleanup is one of the most common seasonal chores homeowners face, but the tool itself should not become another burden,” said James Sun, CEO of Teslong. “We designed this blower to combine the airflow users need with a lighter body and an adjustable duct that helps bring the air to the work.”
Now available in the United States, the Teslong Brushless Leaf Blower delivers up to 600 CFM of air volume and 115 MPH of airspeed, allowing users to move larger amounts of debris across open surfaces or concentrate airflow for fence lines, corners and tighter areas. Low, High and Turbo settings let users match the output to each task instead of running maximum power from start to finish.
With the included 4.0Ah battery, Low provides about 32 minutes for light debris, High about 18 minutes for routine leaf clearing, and Turbo about 12 minutes for tougher patches. Those run times are designed to support quick passes across driveways, patios and small-to-medium residential yards, with Turbo reserved for short, stubborn areas rather than continuous use.
Designed for better reach and control
At the center of the design is a five-position adjustable air duct. The pivoting tube changes angle and extends by three inches, allowing users to direct airflow beneath benches and patio furniture or along garden edges while keeping the handle at a more natural height. The result is less repeated bending and more control in the places where leaves tend to collect.
On an open driveway or lawn, the wider airflow setting helps gather scattered leaves into manageable piles. Along fence lines, garden edges and corners, a more focused stream puts the air where it is needed. The same control can clear sawdust after a garage project or chase water from grilles and wheel spokes after a car wash, allowing one familiar tool to handle several jobs around the home.
Lightweight 20V design for repeat residential cleanup
The Teslong Brushless Leaf Blower weighs 2.86 pounds without the battery and 4.3 pounds with the included battery installed. Its one-handed design and compact form make it easier to move between the front walk, backyard, patio and garage or make another pass when trees keep shedding. When the work is done, the folding design takes up less room in a garage cabinet, tool closet or car trunk.
The included 20V 4.0Ah battery has a four-stage power indicator and supports up to 45W USB-C Power Delivery input and output. That means owners can charge through a compatible USB-C setup instead of another proprietary dock and use the battery as a portable power source for supported devices. The same pack also works across Teslong’s growing 20V tool platform.
The Teslong Brushless Leaf Blower comes with one 20V 4.0Ah battery, a USB-C charging cable and a user manual; a wall charger is not included. Special launch pricing is $119.99 during launch month; the standard price will be $129.99 afterward. Customers can purchase it through Amazon or the Teslong online store. Pricing and availability are subject to change. The product is backed by Teslong’s 12-month limited warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee, subject to applicable terms.
About Teslong
Founded in 2013, Teslong develops practical tools that simplify everyday tasks for consumers and professionals. Its product portfolio spans industrial borescopes, thermal imaging and portable tools for home, automotive and DIY use. With U.S. operations in Irvine, California, Teslong supports customers ranging from homeowners and hobbyists to mechanics, plumbers, HVAC specialists and other professional users. The company combines rapid product development with customer feedback to refine tools for real-world tasks. Learn more at Teslong.com.
Dubai, U.A.E., Sep 05, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Artificial Intelligence is redefining security operations, but successful Security Operations Centre (SOC) transformation requires more than simply deploying new tools. Tata Communications in collaboration withSANSInstitute has published a whitepaper exploring how security leaders can determine where AI should automate, where it should augment, and where human judgment must remain central. The whitepaper provides a practical framework for reengineering security operations around trust, context, accountability, and effective cyber defence.
“AI is transforming security operations, but technology alone cannot determine legitimacy, intent, or business impact. The future SOC must be built on a clear understanding of where AI can automate, where it should augment, and where human judgment must remain central,” said Vaibhav Dutta, Vice President and Global Head – Cybersecurity Products & Services, Tata Communications.
Vaibhav Dutta, Vice President and Global Head – Cybersecurity Products & Services, Tata Communications
The paper presents a roadmap for reengineering the SOC around better decision-making, detection engineering, automation, MSSP collaboration, workforce evolution, and resilience, offering actionable guidance to organisations looking to evaluate and future- proof their AI security investments while navigating both near-term opportunities and long-term transformation.
Key takeaways:
Understand where AI helps; and where it doesn’t
Learn how AI improves detection, analysis, automation, and decision making, while recognising the limitations of AI when business context and human judgment are required.
Build a modern SOC operating model
Discover how organisations are shifting from alert-driven operations to hypothesis-led hunting, detection engineering, and continuous operational improvement.
Strengthen collaboration between internal teams and MSSPs (Managed Security Service Providers)
Explore why effective security outcomes depend on integrating technology, expertise, business context, and managed security partners into a unified operating model.
Meet the Tata Communications team at GISEC Global 2026, Hall 4, Stand E52, to explore our solutions through live demos and connect with our product leaders.
About TATA Communications
A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today’s fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world’s cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com
Dubai, U.A.E., Sep 05, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — At GISEC Global 2026, the Middle East’s largest cybersecurity exhibition, taking place in Dubai from September 16 to 18, Positive Technologies will invite senior security leaders into an immersive “CISO Lounge” — a meeting room transformed into a working mini-lab where visitors can watch device security research unfold in real time.
Inside the CISO Lounge, a hands-on installation puts hardware security on display. A table of everyday connected devices — an IP camera, a wearable smart device, an industrial controller, a POS terminal, and a router — sits alongside a large screen streaming live “X-ray” footage of what lies inside them. Using a tablet-based interactive app, CISOs and their teams can explore each device layer by layer and see exactly where its security breaks. The experience shows manufacturers and buyers alike how attackers view their products from the inside — and why hardware-level investigation matters.
[Emad Abu Jazar, Director for the Middle East and Africa at Positive Technologies], said: “CISOs are under pressure to trust a growing fleet of connected devices, yet very few can see what actually happens beneath the surface. In the CISO Lounge, we make that invisible layer visible. By putting a real research lab in the room, we show security leaders precisely where a device fails — from its processor to its wider ecosystem — and how Positive Labs helps organizations build that investigative capability for themselves.”
The CISO Lounge is a connecting installation designed to lead visitors from the demo to the Positive Technologies stand, where the company showcases the full Positive Labs equipment used to investigate real-world attacks and vulnerabilities.
About Positive Labs
Positive Labs is a world-class R&D center delivering a full cycle of security research across microelectronics, commercial, and industrial devices — from processors and microcontrollers to smart, connected, and IoT devices, industrial equipment, POS terminals and ATMs, computer and server hardware, and vehicles. As the leading Russian reverse engineering laboratory, it brings expertise at every level, from hardware vulnerabilities in processors to architectural flaws in ecosystem design.
Positive Labs designs proprietary hardware and software for Fault Injection and Side Channel Analysis, including Laser FI, Electromagnetic FI, and Electromagnetic SCA systems built on a universal software platform. Within a comprehensive offering, the team also designs and equips laboratories for microelectronics and embedded systems security research: it tailors research processes to each customer’s objectives, supplies a complete set of research equipment, develops requirements for laboratory space planning and setup, trains specialists on real-world cases, and provides ongoing technical and methodological support.
Positive Technologies is an industry leader in results-driven cybersecurity and a major global provider of information security solutions. Our mission is to safeguard businesses and entire industries against cyberattacks and non-tolerable damage. Positive Technologies is the first and only cybersecurity company in Russia on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX: POSI), with 220,000 shareholders and counting. Follow us on X, LinkedIn, and in the News section at global.ptsecurity.com.
Company to spotlight Sophos Fusion and its expanding portfolio of AI-powered security, XDR, SIEM and MDR capabilities
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 8, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE —Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, has announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026 (16-18 September) at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City. The company will showcase how organizations can strengthen cyber resilience in an AI-enabled threat landscape where attacks are becoming faster, more coordinated, and difficult to manage with disconnected security tools. The focus will be on Sophos Fusion, its AI-native cybersecurity defense system designed to move businesses beyond fragmented security stacks.
Attackers are now using AI and automation to move faster, scale campaigns, and operate across multiple parts of an organization’s environment. Disconnected tools cannot keep pace with threats that move this way. Sophos’ 2026 State of Ransomware report found that 79% of ransomware attacks globally involve an identity-based initial access vector, with malicious email and phishing accounting for 26% of attacks, followed by exploited vulnerabilities at 24% and compromised credentials at 23%. In the UAE, organizations that suffered ransomware attacks reported an average recovery cost of US$665,000.
These findings reinforce the need for a system that can see the whole picture and respond as one. Sophos Fusion, a modern cybersecurity defense system, is designed to close that gap by preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding at AI speed, while keeping human expertise and accountability at the center of security operations. This shift is particularly relevant in the Middle East, where rapid digital transformation and AI adoption are creating new opportunities as well as new security challenges.
“As AI agents gain greater access to sensitive systems and data, enterprises need security and governance to keep pace with innovation. This demands a coordinated, AI-native defense system that can respond at the speed and scale of today’s threats,” said Harish Chib, Vice President for Emerging Markets, Middle East & Africa at Sophos. “GISEC is an important platform for us to bring these conversations together, engage with customers, partners, policymakers and security leaders, and reinforce our commitment to helping organizations build the resilience they need for the AI era.”
At GISEC 2026, Sophos will also highlight how it is applying agentic AI to strengthen security operations. Within Sophos MDR, agentic workflows can resolve a significant proportion of cases end-to-end using AI, while human analysts remain responsible for business judgment, context and complex investigations. This enables high-confidence tasks to be handled at machine speed while maintaining human oversight and reducing the operational burden on security teams.
Building on this approach, Sophos is advancing the defensive use of frontier AI through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. These collaborations enable Sophos to integrate advanced AI capabilities into trusted security workflows, with analysts and controls in the loop, to accelerate threat investigation, strengthen detections and support faster vulnerability remediation. Through Project Glasswing, Sophos has access to Claude Mythos 5, an advanced frontier model that is not publicly available, helping identify and remediate software vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by AI-driven attackers.
Visitors can meet the Sophos team and explore its latest AI-native cybersecurity capabilities at Hall 4, Booth D100 during GISEC Global 2026.
About Sophos
Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, defends more than 625,000 organizations worldwide with Sophos Fusion, the industry’s first and most complete AI-native cybersecurity defense system: a single, connected architecture where every control point operates as one. Powered by agentic AI and elite human expertise, Sophos detects, investigates, and neutralizes threats before they become business-disrupting events. Working alongside a global ecosystem of managed service providers, resellers, and technology partners, Sophos compounds intelligence from every threat encountered and every environment defended to make every customer’s defense stronger than the last. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Proprietary Hammer Pro™ platform recognized at India’s largest trading and investing expo
Mumbai, India, 7th September, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE— Alaric Securities, an EU-regulated broker-dealer with a strong presence across Europe, received the Best Trading Platform 2026 award at Money Expo India, held Aug. 29–30 at the Jio World Convention Center in Mumbai.
The award recognizes Hammer Pro™, Alaric Securities’ proprietary desktop trading platform for active and professional traders, and was presented by HQMENA, a financial media and events group and the organizer of Money Expo India.
The recognition comes as Alaric Securities expands its presence in India through a growing local team, new client relationships, and strategic partnerships.
“Receiving the Best Trading Platform 2026 award is an important recognition of the work our team has put into Hammer Pro,” said Anton Panayotov, CEO of Alaric Securities. “We have built the platform around the real needs of active and professional traders: speed, control, reliable market access and the flexibility to adapt the technology to the way they trade. This recognition in India is especially meaningful as we deepen our relationships and continue developing our presence in one of the world’s most dynamic financial markets.”
Hammer Pro combines direct market access and real-time market data with advanced charting, customizable hotkeys, proprietary market scanners, execution tools and performance analytics. Recent enhancements include new real-time market scanners and expanded AI tools that help traders analyze and track their performance.
Now in its fifth edition, Money Expo India is the country’s largest trading and investing expo, according to the organizer. The event brought together more than 20,000 attendees, 1,000 companies, 300 exhibitors and 200 speakers representing more than 30 countries.
The award was accepted on behalf of Alaric Securities by Yanko Hristov, Head of Sales and institutional business development, who also delivered a keynote at the event. His presentation, titled “Choosing the Right Broker Has Never Been So Important — and So Difficult,” examined how the choice of broker affects more than the price traders and investors pay, including execution quality, market access, technology, asset protection and the support they receive when it matters most.
The recognition comes amid continued growth in participation in trading and investing across India. According to the National Stock Exchange of India, the country surpassed 130 million unique registered investors in April 2026, adding the most recent 10 million investors in seven months. The investor base grew at a compound annual rate of 26.4% from fiscal 2021, compared with 15.2% during the preceding five years.
As India’s investor population expands, demand is growing for reliable trading and investment technology, transparent market access and tools suited to participants at every level of market experience. Alaric Securities plans to continue investing across these areas as it builds out its relationships, partnerships, and market presence.
Alaric Securities is a licensed broker-dealer regulated by the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). In the UK, the group operates through its sister company, Alaric Securities UK, which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), with offices in Sofia, London, Luxembourg and Istanbul. Founded in 2011, the company offers direct market access and proprietary trading technology — including its Hammer Pro™, Hammer Lite™ and Hammer Lite Plus™ platforms, powered in part by Nasdaq Real-Time Data — serving clients from beginner to institutional level.
Manila, Philippines, September 7th, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE— MusoLingo has partnered with MicroSourcing Group to do something most companies haven’t dared to attempt: turn corporate Vision, Mission, and Values into an original song—and make it actually resonate.
In a move that challenges decades of static, forgettable corporate messaging, the collaboration replaces slide decks and handbooks with a fully produced music experience designed to embed culture through emotion, memory, and repetition.
The result is a high-energy, professionally produced track and video that transforms MicroSourcing Group’s core principles into something employees don’t just read—but hear, feel, and remember.
For MicroSourcing Group, the initiative reflects a broader commitment to building a people-first organization where culture is actively experienced across every team, location, and stage of growth. With more than 10,000 professionals supporting over 1,000 clients globally, the company continues to invest in new ways to create alignment, engagement, and shared identity across its expanding workforce.
“Let’s be honest—most employees can’t recall their company’s values,” said Nicole Salisbury, Founder and CEO of MusoLingo. “That’s not a communication problem. It’s a format problem. Music changes that instantly.
“At its core, culture isn’t built through documents—it’s built through shared experiences, and by turning MicroSourcing Group’s Vision, Mission, and Values into music, we’ve created something people can connect with, remember, and carry into their daily work.”
The initiative taps into a simple but powerful insight: people remember what they experience—not what they’re told. By leveraging music and storytelling, MusoLingo is turning workplace communication into something closer to culture than compliance.
For MicroSourcing Group, the project also aligns with the company’s long-standing philosophy that strong cultures create stronger businesses. As organizations scale across multiple countries, teams, and work environments, reinforcing culture consistently—and meaningfully—has become increasingly important.
“We wanted our values to live beyond documents,” said Haidee Enriquez, CEO of MicroSourcing Group. “The process—and the result—gave our team a new way to engage with what we stand for. It’s something that resonates far beyond a slide deck or handbook and translates into real behavioural change across the organisation.”
The collaboration reflects MicroSourcing Group’s broader focus on employee engagement, workplace experience, and innovation in how organizations connect with their people. Rather than treating culture as a static HR exercise, the company continues to explore ways to make it visible, memorable, and embedded into everyday work experiences across its global operations in the Philippines and Colombia.
For employees, the experience created a different kind of connection to the business—one that blended creativity, identity, and shared purpose in a format that felt modern, human, and accessible.
But this is more than a one-off experiment.
The collaboration signals the early stages of a broader movement—where companies rethink how culture is communicated, learned, and reinforced at scale. MusoLingo is positioning itself at the centre of that shift, building a new model where entertainment and workplace learning converge.
“This is just the beginning,” added Nicole. “We’re moving toward a world where workplace learning isn’t consumed—it’s experienced. And when that happens, everything changes.”
About MusoLingo MusoLingo is a next-generation platform redefining language and workplace learning for the global economy. By combining music, entertainment, and cultural immersion with rigorous measurement and certification, MusoLingo delivers real-world communication skills—not just content consumption. Designed for both individuals and enterprises, the platform drives fluency, clarity, and workplace readiness through engaging, outcome-focused learning experiences.
MicroSourcing Group empowers organizations to scale through dedicated offshore and nearshore teams, combining skilled talent, certified operations, and trusted delivery to create measurable, long-term impact for businesses and professionals.
With more than 10,000 professionals supporting over 1,000 clients globally across 20+ industries, MicroSourcing provides build-to-scale outsourcing and managed solutions through operations in the Philippines and Colombia. The company combines flexible team structures, transparent partnership models, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and deep recruitment capabilities to help organizations grow with confidence.
MicroSourcing envisions a world where businesses of every size, location, and industry can access the tools, talent, and infrastructure they need to operate and scale — and where highly skilled professionals have access to meaningful opportunities beyond their local job markets.
For most gold traders, the rules have always been clear, trade during the week, and watch the market close on Friday. For yeards it’s been a Sunday open around 22:00 or 23:00, then a Friday close around 21:00 or 22:00. TradeQuo gold is challenging that routine with a feature many traders would once have considered impossible: access to gold trading during the weekend.
The new feature is gaining attention because it addresses one of the most persistent limitations in traditional retail trading. Saturdays and Sundays don’t stop global events from happening, and gold sentiment continues to shift, though traders weren’t able to cash on that. TradeQuo’s weekend gold offering changes that equation.
By expanding gold trading beyond traditional market hours, the broker is giving eligible clients another way to react to market developments, manage exposure, and engage with one of the world’s most closely watched assets. For traders accustomed to the Friday close, this can certainly feel as impossible feature. But gold is traded globally, followed around the clock, and influenced by events that do not respect conventional market schedules.
TradeQuo is breaking one of gold trading’s oldest routines
Retail access has traditionally been tied to the weekday trading cycle. So, if some major thing had emerged on Saturday, and then government announced it on Sunday, gold sentiment may change before the new trading week begins. Gold traders had been able to analyze those developments immediately, but they were not able to act until conventional markets reopen.
TradeQuo is targeting that gap directly. GOLD 247 extends access beyond the normal market week, giving traders a new opportunity. The move gives TradeQuo a clear product identity in a market where brokers often struggle to distinguish themselves through anything more specific than spreads, leverage, or platform technology. However, weekend trading itself is not new.
Cryptocurrencies have traded continuously for years. Traders can buy and sell digital assets on a Saturday morning, Sunday evening, or during a public holiday. Gold has remained different.
Despite being one of the world’s most established and liquid assets, retail gold trading has generally followed conventional financial market hours. That is why TradeQuo’s offering stands out. It takes an asset associated with traditional finance and makes it available through a schedule more commonly associated with crypto.
The striking contrast
Crypto is not the only meaningful option for weekend market activity anymore. TradeQuo has changed that forever. The “impossible” part is not the technology alone, but the axioma that a long-standing market limitation cannot be redesigned. Although gold and for instance oil are exactly the instruments for extended access to be added, because their price is influenced by events that can happen at any time.
The factors that may affect price fluctuations over the weekends are if not limitless, for sure wide enough:
Political instability
Military developments
Central-bank officials making market-sensitive comments
You name the next one.
Historically, traders could follow these developments but had limited ability to respond through conventional gold markets until the next session.
TradeQuo’s weekend feature gives additional access to respond to new information, adjust exposure, implement a short-term view, or prepare for the reopening of the wider market. The feature does not guarantee that those decisions will be profitable. It simply gives the trader more control over when a decision for going short or long can be made.
The feature is built for the always-connected trader
TradeQuo is removing part of the waiting period. Modern traders rarely switch off when the market closes. They receive push notifications, follow financial news, monitor geopolitical developments, review charts, and discuss market sentiment through online communities.
” The advent of smartphone trading technology represents a seismic shift in how retail investors interact with the market,” (Xiao Cen, Assistant Professor of Finance at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University).
While access to information is effectively continuous, access to traditional markets itself is not. By extending trading availability, this broker is aligning its platform with the way traders already consume information. For TradeQuo, this is not just about adding more trading hours, but rather about aligning the product with the behaviour of a modern, mobile-first audience.
Enthusiasm around weekend gold should not obscure the risks involved. Markets outside conventional hours may behave differently from their weekday counterparts. Liquidity may be thinner, spreads wider, pricing operate through a different structure, and volatility may be more difficult to assess.
The “impossible” feature still comes with real risks
Traders must understand exactly how TradeQuo’s weekend gold product works before jumping on. Important considerations include:
how weekend prices are calculated;
when trades can be opened or closed;
whether spreads or fees differ from weekday conditions;
how orders are executed;
what happens when the conventional gold market reopens;
whether price gaps or adjustments may affect open exposure.
Brokers have traditionally competed on cost, execution, leverage, product range, and platform design. TradeQuo is adding availability to that list. That idea reflects a wider shift in brokerage world.
Consumers expect banking applications, payment platforms, digital wallets, and crypto exchanges to always remain accessible. Trading platforms are increasingly being judged against the same standard. Finding new ways to overcome those limitations is unique and valuable.
Is this the beginning of a wider product shift?
TradeQuo’s weekend gold feature is for sure the example of new evolution. If traders respond positively, extended access may become a more important point of competition across the whole industry. But for now, GOLD 247 remains a unique feature.
It could also become the first step in a broader expansion of extended hours trading products. The answer will depend on client demand, execution quality, liquidity, product transparency, and the brokers’ ability to manage risk outside standard sessions. TradeQuo in some sense provides a testing ground.
If the feature attracts active gold traders, crypto participants looking for additional markets, and clients who value schedule flexibility, the company may have identified a meaningful area for further product development. That could include additional commodities, indices, or alternative products designed for extended access. Even without that expansion, weekend gold gives TradeQuo a stronger position today.
The real breakthrough is removing the wait
TradeQuo presents itself not simply as a provider of familiar instruments, but as a brokr willing to reconsider how those instruments are delivered, and the launch of GOLD247 proves it. Introduced on 11 July 2026, the instrument was designed to create a unique offering of a dedicated gold trading symbol with access beyond conventional trading hours. For traders who have spent years watching gold-related developments unfold while the market remained closed, GOLD247 extends access to gold through a dedicated MT5 symbol with independent pricing and weekend market visibility, giving traders a way to stay connected to one of the world’s most important assets beyond the conventional trading week.
