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June 30, 2023

Verifone Launches New Brand

Verifone unveils new brand and enterprise website to exemplify its class-leading payments platform offering

Verifone new logo

New Verifone brand identity

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., June 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Verifone rebrands to highlight its innovative payment solutions by introducing a new logo, brand identity and global website to align with an updated vision. Verifone is now the “Payments Architect and Commerce Expert” partner for all businesses everywhere. Verifone’s robust product and services portfolio delivers on that promise as it spans digital payment solutions, secure payment devices, cloud-hosted Payments as a Service, merchant acquiring, point of sale technology, advanced business insights through data science, managed services practices, and more.

After rebuilding its entire offering and company culture under new leadership, the refreshed brand identity matches the innovation and passion of a new Verifone. Consumer recognition and trust in the Verifone name needed to be preserved while simultaneously highlighting Verifone’s heightened digital focus, future-first approach and leading position in the marketplace. The new iconography conveys the connected, modular and evolving nature of payments in modern life, and it shows the architectural role Verifone plays in payments and commerce. All of this comes together on Verifone’s new global website where consumers, merchants and other stakeholders are introduced to a new, more user-friendly Verifone experience. The new brand is extensible across business units and around the world.

Verifone T650m Mobile Payment Device

With half a trillion dollars in transactions traversing its cloud via payment devices or Verifone-powered websites and apps, Verifone truly enables global commerce. Verifone stands out in the payments space where most businesses still piece together fragmented offerings from multiple providers to address complex customer needs. Verifone is the single provider with a comprehensive, flexible toolset that streamlines and reduces costs for any enterprise to accept payments.

“The world of commerce evolves constantly, and it is this dynamic environment that we’ve simplified and continue to revolutionize. Verifone started in the Fintech space over four decades ago, rapidly evolving our service offerings to meet the needs of all large and small businesses,” said Mike Pulli, Verifone CEO. “We are the critical commerce partner for businesses worldwide, offering solutions with a futureproof architecture. Our new brand matches our digital-first thinking, employee-focused mindset, and accelerated innovation. Our customers, and their customers, rely on Verifone every day.”

Verifone has focused intensely on new, innovative payment capabilities and features in recent years, significantly expanding the solution stack and enabling new markets. The company’s commerce expertise means its solutions can easily be adapted across nearly every vertical. From complex, global, omni-commerce retailers to a local vendor at a farmers’ market, Verifone futureproofs payment ecosystems and tech stacks.

Verifone M440 Multilane Payment Device

To experience Verifone’s new identity, watch the introduction video https://vimeo.com/verifone/newbrandlaunch and visit the new corporate global website at https://www.verifone.com/en/global. New country-specific websites will go live in the coming weeks and months.

About Verifone

Verifone is the payments architect shaping ecosystems for online and in-person commerce experiences, including everything businesses need – from secure payment devices to eCommerce tools, acquiring services, advanced business insights, and much more. As a global FinTech leader, Verifone powers omni-commerce growth for companies in over 165 countries and is trusted by the world’s best-known brands, small businesses, and major financial institutions. The Verifone platform is built on a four-decade history of innovation and uncompromised security, annually managing more than 12B transactions worth over $500B on physical and digital channels.

Verifone Media Contact:
Email: Press@Verifone.com

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June 30, 2023

St Kitts and Nevis announces extension to Citizenship by Investment Programme Sustainable Growth Fund Limited Time Offer due to unprecedented demand

Basseterre, June 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — International investors have been clamouring to take advantage of one of the best deals in the investment migration industry this year – St Kitts and Nevis’ Sustainable Growth Fund (SGF) Limited Time Offer (LTO) which allows investors to gain approval for alternative citizenship in the country in as little as 60 days for a reduced fee.

In December 2022, the St Kitts and Nevis Head of the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU), Michael Martin, announced the enactment of the updated St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Regulations 2023, which included the introduction of the LTO for the SGF investment option effective 1 January 2023 – 30 June 2023.

On 29 June 2023, Michael Martin made the following comment regarding the LTO:

“We have received an overwhelming response and demand for our Sustainable Growth Fund investment option through the Limited Time Offer and felt that we had to extend the offering for another seven months until 31 January 2024. International investors continue to see the value of the world’s first and finest Citizenship by Investment Programme and this proves it”.

The SGF remains the quickest and easiest route to alternative citizenship in St Kitts and Nevis and now until 31 January 2024, a main applicant can acquire alternative citizenship by contributing only US$125,000 to the SGF and receiving approval in principle within 60 days of acknowledgement by the CIU of submission of their application.

Under the LTO, the minimum SGF contributions are as follows:

Single applicant – US$ 125,000
Main applicant and a spouse – US$150,000

Main applicant and up to three dependants – US$170,000
Each additional dependant under 18 – US$10,000
Each additional dependant over 18 – US$25,000

Revenue from the SGF has facilitated economic development and social upliftment in the country. The SGF is used to provide financial support to educational institutions, and medical facilities, as well as support infrastructural development, increase tourism, preserve local culture and heritage and support sustainable growth initiatives in the twin-island nation.

Discerning investors are seeing the benefits of being part of St Kitts and Nevis’ success story. Following upgrades to the CBI Regulations, the country now offers one of the most secure and best-regulated investment migration offerings in the world.

This means that international investors looking to hedge their bets in a stable and growing economy should look no further than St Kitts and Nevis.

This extension is a fantastic opportunity for investors to obtain citizenship through the LTO. This is a final extension and from 1 February 2024, the minimum SGF contribution will increase to the amounts prior to the LTO period.

The country is making sure that it has only the best to offer international entrepreneurs and families who have realised that global powerhouses are no longer illustrious investment options due to security risks. Investors want to ensure that they can safeguard their families and wealth in a global economy that has been offering nothing but uncertainty since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Smaller governments such as that of St Kitts and Nevis have found ways, through CBI, to protect themselves from global shocks, offer favourable business policies aimed at growing corporations in international markets and, by using international funds channelled to the SGF, can diversify and grow their economy to meet global needs.

St Kitts and Nevis continues to create a name for itself as a financial nexus in the Caribbean with an attractive CBI programme underpinned by a sound legal framework and robust multi-layered due diligence.

For nearly 40 years, St Kitts and Nevis has been the pioneer of the global investor immigration industry and those who recognise this are taking advantage of the LTO.

Chantal Mabanga
Government of St. Kitts and Nevis
+44 (0) 207 318 4343
chantal.mabanga@csglobalpartners.com

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June 30, 2023

Absence of Sam George causes Parliament to defer laying anti-LGBTQ Bill

The Business Committee of Parliament has rescheduled to next week, the second laying of the 'Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022'.

The object of the Bill is to provide for proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian Family Values proscribe lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and related activities.

Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, said the rescheduling of the laying of the Bill to next week became necessary because of the absence of Mr Sam George, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram; and Lead Sponsor of the Private Members' Bill, and Mr Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and MP for Asante Akim Central.

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu noted that in the course of the week, both Mr George and Mr Anyimadu-Antwi were outside the jurisdiction of Ghana on a national assignment and that the latter had just returned to the country while Mr George would be arriving back later.

It would be recalled that on Friday, June 23, during the presentation of the Business Statement of the House, Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, through Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, the First Deputy Speaker, presiding, directed the Business Committee of the House to table the 'Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights And Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022' for either Tuesday, June 27th or Thursday, June 29th, for the consideration of the House.

Subsequently, the Bill has been tabled for the two days in the Order Paper of the House but due to the absence of Mr George and Mr Anyimadu-Antwi, it could not be laid for the second reading of the House.

The Second Reading would give MPs the opportunity to debate the main principles of the Bill.

Source: Ghana News Agency

June 30, 2023

Canadian Murder Case: Accused person undergoes DNA test

Safina Mohammed Adzizatu, who is standing trial over the alleged murder of her Canadian boyfriend, Frank Kofi Osei, has successfully undergone DNA testing.

An Attorney General's Department representative told an Adentan District Court that the Police were awaiting the DNA report, which is expected to be ready in two weeks' time.

Receiving the DNA report would pave the way for committal proceedings at the District Court.

Safina and her accomplice Michael Fiifi Ampofo Arku after the committal proceedings are expected to appear before an Accra High Court where the actual trial would kick start

Safina, a first-year student at the University of Ghana, Legon, and Arku, a Technical Officer, have been charged with conspiracy and Murder of Frank Kofi Osei, a Canadian who was on vacation in Ghana.

Their pleas have been preserved by the District Court.

Frank Kofi Osei was allegedly murdered in cold blood at Ashalley Botwe School Junction, Accra in July 2022, when he visited Safina.

Safina and Arku were arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder.

The two accused persons who are on bail are expected to reappear on July 11.

Source: Ghana News Agency

June 30, 2023

Man who stole American rapper’s iPhone arrested for phone theft

Accra, Nuhu Sulley, the 33-year-old scrap dealer who was granted a GHc50,000 bail by an Accra Circuit Court for stealing an American rapper's iPhone, has been arrested for another phone theft.

Sulley, who was granted bail five months ago for grabbing Meek Mills' cellular phone, is in the grips of the police for stealing a phone valued at GHC4,000 belonging to a medical officer at Madina.

He appeared before an Adentan Circuit Court for allegedly stealing the medical officer's phone when he (the complainant) attempted to board a commercial vehicle from Madina to Oyibi

Sulley's accomplice, whose name was only given as Junior is said to be at large.

Charged with conspiracy to steal and stealing, Sulley has pleaded not guilty.

The court presided over by Mrs Sedinam Awo Balokah has admitted Sulley to bail in the sum of GHC 100,000 with three sureties one to be justified.

He is expected to reappear on July 20 as police mount a search for his accomplice.

An Attorney from the Attorney General's Department opposed the grant of bail extended to Sulley pointing out that he was the same person who was before an Accra Circuit Court for charges of phone theft against American Wrapper Meek Mills at the Independence Square during the Afro nation concert last December.

According to state prosecutors, Sulley, when granted bail, was likely to commit a similar offence, and was a flight risk.

In Sulley's application for bail, Defence Counsel described Sulley as a law-abiding person who had never had a brush with the law and was also a peaceful member of society.

According to his lawyer, Sulley has people who were ready to stand as sureties.

The prosecution's case was that the complainant is a Clinical Physician and a resident of Oyibi, Accra.

It said Sulley was unemployed and resided in Madina. Sulley's accomplice, known as Junior, is at large.

The prosecution said on March 10, 2023, at about 2100 hours, the complainant was boarding a car from Madina to Oyibi when he felt a hand in his pocket where he had kept his Huawei mobile phone valued at GHC4,000.

It said by the time the complainant could get hold of the hand in his pocket; the person absconded.

The prosecution said the complainant saw Sulley running away with the phone.

It said when the complainant enquired from some people around the scene, he (the complainant) was told that the accused person was a 'Loading boy,' at the place and the scene was where he plies his trade.

The prosecution said the following day, Sulley resurfaced, and he was arrested.

It said Sulley, however, resisted arrest and raised an alarm which attracted about 20 people who tried to rescue Sulley.

In the process, the complainant and a witness in the case were injured.

The prosecution said the Police and the assembly member for the area were able to put the situation under control.

It said in Sulley's caution statement, he denied stealing the phone but indicated that it was Junior, his accomplice who had stolen the phone.

Sulley further stated that he chased Junior and collected the phone from him.

The prosecution said Sulley and Junior went and gave the complainant's mobile phone to someone to decode for them.

According to the prosecution, Sulley showed where they took the phone, and it was retrieved.

The prosecution said an investigation was underway.

Source: Ghana News Agency