Category: Business

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 2 June 2020 -Recently,
a community service campaign led by Marvin Lau, Chief Executive Officer of LEGACY, with the theme of "Ending
the Epidemic Together" was launched in the 18 districts of Hong Kong,
donating more than 70,000 masks with 10,000 beneficiaries. Marvin Lau, CEO of LEGACY, participated in the distribution
of anti-epidemic materials, and expressed concerns to the groups who were
seriously affected by the epidemic.  He said that LEGACY is based on the idea of helping
more people. Nobody is fighting alone, and LEGACY will make its own contributions.

LEGACY, under the leadership of Chief
Executive Marvin Lau, has always adhered to its social mission.  As a
well-known training enterprise, it has been committed to helping trainees face
challenges in a changing society, break through their limitations, fully
explore their potentials, vitalities and creativities, and create outstanding
wonderful lives.  

 

LEGACY has been established in Hong Kong
by Marvin Lau, a senior instructor who has been worked in potential development
for more than 20 years, and seven well-known training instructors.  As an
all-round consulting center for experiential growth, it is people-oriented and
focuses on their sustainable growths.  It devotes to the mission of
"arousing the consciousness, improving life quality, and creating a world
full of happiness". It focuses on helping dreamers to achieve their
outstanding lives. It enables people to recognize their current state quos
through experiential growth training, broaden their visions, clarify their
growth directions, and constantly improve themselves in terms of bodies, spirits,
minds, and emotions, so as to achieve personal life values and success."

 

Based on market demand, LEGACY has started four training centers
in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shenzhen and Beijing, which include the Taipei Training
Center established in 2001, Shenzhen Training Center established in 2003, and
Beijing Training Center established in 2007. Thanks to the rapid development of
the Internet in recent years, LEGACY has provided more online courses, prompting more Chinese to break
through their own limitations in life orientation and realize their values.

 

LEGACY's highly effective trainings and
outstanding training achievements have become popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Shenzhen and Beijing. It has successfully assisted tens of thousands of
trainees to significantly improve their personal growths, self-awareness, team
cooperation, organizational leaderships and professional skills.  Among
them, there is no lack of outstanding leaders in major industries who are
graduates of LEGACY.

 

Regarding LEGACY's competitive advantage in the
field of growth training, founder and chief executive Marvin Lau said, " LEGACY's remarkable training achievements
and popularities are the results of its excellent teacher team. Each of them is
an outstanding student who has benefited from LEGACY's success and has made
achievements in society. They believe LEGACY's corporate philosophy of
promoting oneself, achieving others and benefiting society, and are willing to
use their own experience to promote the growth of students. "Moreover, LEGACY's courses are customized
experience learning, based on the different needs of occupation, interpersonal
relationship, finance, health, family, life goals and life direction. LEGACY's workshops have set up core
step-by-step workshops and multi-dimensional workshops respectively, which are
dedicated to helping students to have a clearer understanding of themselves
through direct physical, emotional and spiritual participations in learning, to
change the ways of learning, to enhance comprehensive competitiveness, to find
the best states of life, and to truly realize full and successful lives.

 

In addition to pursuing the
promotion of personal value, LEGACY also pays great attention to the dedication of social value and
returns to the society in the process of development. Since it was founded in
2000, LEGACY has carried out the humanistic care of the enterprise with
practical actions and actively devoted itself to social public welfare
undertakings.  Every year, it contributes 5% of its profits to social
welfare as a charity donation, participating in charity activities for the
elderly, children, and helping the vulnerable, etc. In the midst of the
epidemic, Marvin Lau also encouraged the enterprises affected by the epidemic.
He said, "I believe that we should always face everything optimistically,
and negativities cannot solve the problems.  Now that the incident has
occurred, everyone must remain calm and optimistic. "Fortunately, the
epidemic prevention and control work has been effective, and the LEGACY Taiwan course has been steadily
progressing.  Students from Shenzhen and Beijing have already taken part
in the online studies, and the Hong Kong Training Center is expected to be
opened by the end of June.  LEGACY students will actively participate
in the distribution of epidemic prevention materials as volunteers and make
modest contributions in the field of social welfare.

 

"Although many of LEGACY's development plans have been
temporarily suspended due to the epidemic, LEGACY will actively consolidate the
company's business and enhance its team strength based on the long-term
development of the enterprise, and will continue to make contributions in the
charity. "Marvin Lau said. After the epidemic, LEGACY will surely help more people to improve
their self-worth and achieve outstanding growth.

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 2 June 2020 - With
strict Circuit Breaker measures in place to combat the spread of the COVID-19
Outbreak in Singapore from April 7 to June 2, 2020, many non-essential
businesses have jumped on the digital bandwagon as online activity booms. 

 

For local
online florist, Floristique, the Circuit Breaker presented opportunities for
business growth with Mother's Day right in the middle of it. 

 

Ramping Up
Operational Workflows 

 

In the new
normal where eCommerce has emerged as a key economic driver, businesses like
Floristique must adapt to shifting consumer behaviours to shop online to keep
up and facilitate compliance. 

 

Planning
was key for the online florist who had a massive spike in Mother's Day orders
compared to the previous year. Earlier this year, they decided to design a special range of Mother's Day
bouquets that
would simplify their procurement operations. 

 

With the
expected surge in demand for flowers on Mother's Day, Floristique's next step
was to procure their supplies in advance to give them some leverage when the
orders came in. 

 

Since
self-collection was no longer an option during the Circuit Breaker, the online
florist teamed up with delivery contractors to manage the ballooning number of
Mother's Day orders. This move gave them a lead-up by reducing their
operational workload and allowing them to focus on getting Mother's Day
bouquets out with more efficiency.

 

Service
with a Virtual Smile

 

Floristique's
brand is all about spreading positivity through floral art and stellar
customer service.

 

The online
florist had designated team members on standby to answer inbound customer
queries from their website, on the social media platforms, and on WhatsApp as
promptly as possible. 

 

On top of
maintaining quality customer service, Floristique continued to display humility
and appreciation by consistently showing deep gratitude to their loyal
customers and using feedback as an opportunity to improve.

 

Keeping
the Team Spirit Alive 

 

With
remote working overtaking the world of work, maintaining a company's spirit is
a challenge in itself. As such, daily communication and consistent updates are
tantamount to boosting team morale and keeping the team united.

 

The
Floristique management took the reins by providing regular updates on WhatsApp
about company affairs to keep all team members up to date about the latest
developments. They also encouraged a culture of transparency by checking in
with their team members regularly to ensure all their interests and concerns
are accounted for. 

 

Blooming
in Adversity 

 

"We are
doing our part to combat the spread of the virus by encouraging our customers
to shop online. Even after more and more firms resume business as usual at
their physical stores, we will still encourage our customers and our team to
practice effective social distancing," mentioned Wendy Han, co-founder of
Floristique. 

 

The
COVID-19 Outbreak and Circuit Breaker have significantly reshaped the way
businesses in Singapore operate. Even as strict measures relax as the year
wears on, businesses must continue to be resourceful and adaptive to manage
these changes. 

 

"As a
business ourselves, we empathise with all other enterprises who have been
struggling to adjust to the new normal. The road to recovery won't be easy, but
we'll get there."

About Floristique

Based in
Singapore, Floristique is an online
florist that
offers a full range of flowers and bouquets on their online catalogue. They
provide same-day delivery services round the clock island wide. For more information,
please visit https://www.floristique.sg/. 

The new authentication suite helps online businesses improve their performance and streamline the implementation of SCA

 

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - Media OutReach - 2 June 2020 - Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 -
ING), the global leader in seamless payments, today unveils its SCA accelerator suite to help online businesses remain compliant,
innovate and better control their data. The suite will bring all of Ingenico
ePayments' expertise together to help online businesses improve their
performance and facilitate the implementation of Strong Customer Authentication
(SCA), due on 31 December 2020.

The SCA Accelerator Suite from Ingenico utilizes the latest versions
of 3D Secure, ensures businesses are compliant with The EU Second Payment
Services Directive (PSD2), offers authentication
routing, ensures the appropriate data collection and streamlines mobile UX.
Ingenico's new suite offers advanced PSD2 features including:

• Automatic Step-Up: when issuers require SCA to authorize, transactions will be
  submitted through 3D Secure and then resubmitted for authorization without any
  impact on the merchant.
• Automatic Fallback: if 3DS v2 is not available
  (technical failure, not supported), a transaction will automatically be
  resubmitted to an earlier version.
• SmartComply: makes sure online businesses perform 3D Secure when they are
  required to do so and analyses transactions to determine if they are covered by
  the scope of PSD2. It determines if SCA is required or should be skipped.
• AutoExempt: automatically selects and uses the best exemptions (e.g.
  whitelisting or low transaction value) depending on the nature of the
  transaction being processed and issuer/acquirer performance.

Ingenico ensures PSD2 compliance with a suite of SCA-solutions that are built
to effectively manage transactions on behalf of its customers. Previously,
there has been a lot of discussion around what is 'required' and is needed to
'comply' with PSD2. However, PSD2 is an opportunity for online businesses to
innovate, and better control the data that drives their operations. Ingenico
developed this new offering to help online businesses by reducing the risk of
credit card fraud, increasing conversion rates, and shifting liability back to
the issuer.

Simone van Schaik, VP Product
at Ingenico ePayments: "We've
worked hard so our customers don't have to. Our SCA Accelerator Suite is built
to handle PSD2-compliant processes on behalf of the customer. My message to all
online businesses is that it's time to make PSD2 work for you."

The period of adjustment to comply with PSD2 runs until the end of
the year. Ingenico recommends online businesses to take this opportunity to
monitor the performance of 3DS v2.1 and 2.2 by testing the latest version to
ensure they gain a better understanding of how and where improvements can be
made.

To learn more about
Ingenico's SCA Accelerator Suite, please visit: https://business.ingenico.com/sca-suite

For the latest updates on PSD2 timelines, please visit: https://www.ingenico.com/global-epayments/manage-risk/psd2

About Ingenico Group

Ingenico Group (Euronext:
FR0000125346 -- ING) is shaping the future of payments for sustainable and
inclusive growth. As a global leader in seamless payments, we provide merchants
with smart, trusted and secure solutions to empower commerce across all
channels and enable simplification of payments and deliver customer promises.
We are the trusted and proactive world-class partner for financial institutions
and retailers, from small merchants to the world's best-known global brands. We
have a global footprint with more than 8,000 employees, 90 nationalities and a
commercial presence in 170 countries. Our international community of payment experts
anticipates the evolutions of commerce and consumer lifestyles to provide our
clients with leading-edge complete solutions wherever they are needed.

www.ingenico.com

@ingenico

 

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Brandnow.asia and its partnered agencies in PRN have joined forces to offer a free 30-minute consultation on business issues related to COVID-19

 

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 1 Jun 2020 - COVID-19 has caused business disruption around the globe. Brandnow.asia in conjunction with partners have teamed up to provide a free 30-minute consultation on internal and external communications, crisis management, downsizing, mergers & acquisitions, CSR, and communications for recovery and post COVID-19.

 

The PRN is a group that unites public relations specialists worldwide. Established in 2006, the group connects 25+ agencies across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. For the clinic, the Asian agencies are participating and preparing to help businesses during this pandemic.

 

During this unprecedented time, the partners are providing pro bono services on specific business matters. The COVID Communications Clinic platform will be addressed by PR experts ready to support companies and organizations with a practical guidelines and solutions.

 

Pacharee Pantoomano, Managing Director of Brandnow.asia stated - "We established the COVID Communications Clinic to support the business community in Asia. The economic impact of the pandemic will be felt for many months to come. We believe that listening and communicating are key components for leaders to effectively plan as organizations navigate this uncharted territory.

 

"We are glad to be part of this meaningful initiative. With the post-COVID-19 recovery, everyone is adjusting to the new normal. In times of challenges, effective and efficient communications tools are vital. With the collective intelligence among PRN members, we are pleased to be of service to the community and support the march towards a brighter future," said Belinda Chan, Managing Director of CCG, Hong Kong, China.

 

Sarah Song from Integra, Seoul, South Korea related, "We, Integra, the communications partner in South Korea are delighted to be participating in this program. We feel that it is transforming challenges into opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic confronts businesses to be wise and bold in their approach. Thus, the new normal is also the dawn of a new era, shifting out of the comfort zone and daring us to develop and embrace new communications and business strategies.    

 

"Tough times call for tougher communications plans to be in place. We understand that many organizations in Asia are occupied with addressing the ever evolving COVID-19 situation. As a network of boutique PR agencies, The Right Spin and its members are tapping into local PR expertise and regional resources to make a difference. Our aim is to enable businesses through this period and be the first to capture opportunities in the new norm," said Stacy Ang, Founder & Director of The Right Spin.

 

Sharon Wu, General Manager of Swem Brand Consultancy, Taiwan, "We are honoured to be co-creating with our Asian partners. This innovative consultation project with experts in PRN can help reinforce enterprise advantages, competitiveness, overcome business issues, and ultimately forge a new normal and future for the organization."

How the COVID Communications Clinic works: Companies and organizations are invited to visit the website to post a clear and detailed question relating to internal and external communications, downsizing, mergers & acquisitions, crisis management, CSR, and other communications matter during and after COVID-19. The request is sent to the participating agencies. The agency will reply via email or phone.

 

Visit the COVID-19 Communications Clinic:

https://covidcommunicationsclinic.com/

About Public Relations Network (PRN)

Public Relations Network (PRN) is a global collective of like-minded, owner-managed public relations agencies providing consultancy and local support for worldwide PR campaigns. PRN has affiliate PR agencies in Austria, Canada, China -- Mainland, China -- Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA.

 

About Brandnow.asia

Brandnow.asia is an agency and consultancy serving startup, unicorns, disruptors and blue-chip brands here in Thailand and Regional. We are part of the PRN network with partners that spans the globe. The focus is on strategy and brand communication with services ranging from public relations, marketing, internal communications and direct marketing to event management. Some of our B2B clients are Grohe, Merck and Akzo Nobel. Our B2C clients include Grab, Lalamove, Ksher and Wechat Pay.

 

About Creative Consulting Group (CCG)
Creative Consulting Group (CCG) is a multidisciplinary agency founded in 2001 with a focused expertise in corporate and branding communications. Its mission is to provide a full range of services in brand-building, corporate communications and issues management to help clients achieve the success they seek and bring their aspirations to life. CCG primarily works in real estate, finance, technology and professional services sectors. CCG is a member of the PRN -- a global independent alliance of specialist PR agencies in 28 countries.