Third consecutive year in the global Top 5

TOKYO, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh has been recognised as one of the world’s leading audiovisual (AV) integrators by US publication, Systems Contractor News (SCN), ranking fourth in the SCN Top 50 Systems Integrators 2025 list. This marks the third consecutive year that Ricoh has been listed among the Top 5, reaffirming its sustained growth and leadership in the global AV integrator market.

The list provides an annual snapshot of the AV industry, highlighting top companies that deliver solutions across diverse vertical markets worldwide. The ranking is based on the previous year’s sales and expected revenue from enterprise AV systems installations in the current year. Ricoh’s continued presence in the Top 5 reflects its strategic investments and partnerships aimed at meeting the growing demand for advanced AV and collaboration solutions.

With the professional audiovisual (Pro AV) market projected to grow significantly in the coming years, Ricoh has invested in strengthening its capabilities through the acquisition of leading AV integration firms, including Cenero (US), DataVision, Pure AV, AVC (EMEA), Videocorp, and Go2neXt (Latin America). In addition to these acquisitions, Ricoh has expanded its ecosystem through strategic partnerships with global technology providers, including LG and Logitech. Most recently, Ricoh announced a strategic partnership with Neat, a global innovator in video collaboration devices, to deliver enhanced meeting experiences and hybrid work solutions for organisations worldwide. This strategic alliance further reinforces Ricoh’s expertise in AV managed services (AVMS), a core component of its Workplace Experience business.

As a global workplace services provider, Ricoh delivers consistent services that support the new ways people work. Within the Workplace Experience domain—which includes communications and collaboration services—Ricoh offers solutions that enable seamless collaboration across offices and hybrid environments, helping people work more creatively. Through an integrated portfolio of hardware, software, and managed services, Ricoh allows customers to reduce operational complexity, focus on value-creating work, and drive organisational growth.

“Across Asia Pacific, organisations are accelerating investment in audiovisual and collaboration technologies to support hybrid work at scale,” said Kei Uesugi, Managing Director, Ricoh Asia Pacific. “Our teams are delivering managed AV environments that provide consistency across markets while remaining responsive to local needs. This recognition reflects the strength of our regional execution, and the trust customers place in Ricoh as a long-term workplace services partner.”

“Achieving a Top 5 ranking in the SCN Top 50 for the third consecutive year reflects Ricoh’s continued leadership in the global AV integration market,” said Masaya Takahashi, General Manager, Workplace Experience Business Centre, RICOH Digital Services Business Unit, Ricoh Company, Ltd. “As workstyles continue to diversify, organisations need partners that deliver consistent, intuitive, and scalable workplace experiences. By strengthening AV managed services and expanding our ecosystem of strategic partners, we are creating environments where collaboration is effortless and decisions move faster. As a workplace services provider, Ricoh will continue to deliver integrated digital solutions that optimise office space and facility management, elevate the workplace experience, and enable people to achieve fulfillment through work.”

Related Links

• SCN Top 50 Systems Integrators 2025
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• SCN Top 50 Systems Integrators 2025 List
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• Ricoh and Neat announce global partnership to enhance workplace collaboration
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About Ricoh

Ricoh is a leading provider of integrated digital services and print and imaging solutions designed to support the digital transformation of workplaces, workspaces and optimise business performance.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh’s global operation reaches customers in approximately 200 countries and regions, supported by cultivated knowledge, technologies, and organisational capabilities nurtured over its 85-year history. In the financial year ended March 2025, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,527 billion yen (approx. 16.8 billion USD).

It is Ricoh’s mission and vision to empower individuals to find ‘Fulfilment through Work’ by understanding and transforming how people work so we can unleash their potential and creativity to realise a sustainable future.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com

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SINGAPORE and HONG KONG, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Warburg Pincus, the pioneer of global growth investing, today announced that it has signed an agreement to invest in Acclime, a leading provider of corporate and business services across Asia Pacific. Through this transaction, Warburg Pincus seeks to leverage its global track record in building leading business services platforms to support Acclime’s next phase of growth, international expansion, and innovation.

Founded in 2019 by industry veteran Martin Crawford, Acclime was established with a clear vision: to build a truly integrated professional services platform capable of supporting businesses operating across Asia’s most complex and fast-growing markets. From its inception, Acclime differentiated itself through a partner-led model that combines deep local expertise with global standards, enabling the firm to scale rapidly while maintaining strong governance, accountability, and client focus.

Since its founding, Acclime has executed an ambitious and disciplined growth strategy, completing more than 50 acquisitions to build a platform spanning 18 markets and employing more than 2,000 professionals. The firm today serves over 17,000 clients—including subsidiaries of multinational corporations expanding into Asia Pacific, regional businesses, family offices, private capital firms, and high-growth companies—with a comprehensive suite of services across accounting, tax, HR and payroll, fund services, corporate secretarial, and risk and advisory.

As part of its evolution into a scaled, multi-market platform, Acclime appointed Izzy Silva as Group Chief Executive Officer in early 2024. Since assuming the role, Mr. Silva has led the next phase of Acclime’s development, sharpening the firm’s strategic focus, strengthening its operating model, and accelerating investment across leadership, systems, and technology to support sustainable long-term growth. Under his leadership, Acclime has advanced its digital transformation agenda, including the development of Aura, the firm’s proprietary AI-enabled automation platform, enhancing service delivery, operational efficiency, and client experience at scale.

Martin Crawford, Founder and Chairman of Acclime, said: “Over the past several years, Acclime has evolved into a pan-regional leader by combining deep local knowledge with a commitment to high-quality service for our clients. What began as a plan on a page has grown into a scaled, multi-market platform that has exceeded our expectations, thanks to the dedication of our 60+ partners, Stem Financial as foundational investors, and our talented team. We are delighted to welcome Warburg Pincus as a partner. Its partnership-oriented culture, global network, and strong track record of supporting growth make it an ideal investor for our next chapter.”

Saurabh Agarwal, Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia Private Equity at Warburg Pincus, said: “Acclime has built one of Asia Pacific’s most scaled and differentiated corporate and business services platforms, powered by strong leadership, disciplined acquisitions, and a clear commitment to technology-enabled excellence. In a region defined by regulatory complexity and rising cross-border activity, the demand for an integrated, tech forward business services partner has never been greater. Acclime’s deep local expertise and scalable, technology-driven solutions position it to lead the next generation of corporate and business services across the region. We are excited to partner with Martin, Izzy, and the broader team to accelerate growth, expand capabilities, and create long-term value.”

“Acclime has reached an important inflection point in its journey,” said Izzy Silva, Group CEO of Acclime. “Warburg Pincus shares our conviction in the long-term opportunity to build a global, technology-enabled professional services platform, and brings deep experience in scaling complex, multi-market businesses. Together, we are well positioned to accelerate growth, broaden our capabilities, and create enduring value for our clients and partners.”

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About Acclime

Acclime is a leading professional services firm providing integrated corporate services, fund services, accounting, tax, and advisory solutions across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Founded in 2019 by Martin Crawford and Debby Davidson, Acclime was built on a partner-led model designed to prioritise client success. With over 2,000 professionals operating as one unified firm across 18 markets, Acclime serves a diverse range of private clients, regional enterprises, multinationals, funds, and family offices. The firm combines deep market knowledge, cross-border expertise and industry leading tech-enablement to help clients navigate complex regulatory environments, scale their operations and achieve their strategic objectives at every stage of success. For more information, please visit: www.acclime.com

About Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus LLC is the pioneer of global growth investing. A private partnership since 1966, the firm has the flexibility and experience to focus on helping investors and management teams achieve enduring success across market cycles. Today, the firm has more than $85 billion in assets under management and more than 215 companies in its active portfolio, diversified across stages, sectors, and geographies. Warburg Pincus has invested in more than 1,000 companies across its private equity, real estate, and capital solutions strategies.

The firm is headquartered in New York with more than 15 offices globally. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com.

About Stem Financial

Stem Financial is a growth equity investment company focused on financial and professional services in Asia Pacific. The firm invests across business development stages to help entrepreneurs implement their ideas and accelerate growth. Stem Financial is hands-on, delivering support, governance and capital, and is driven by returns, not assets under management. For more information, please visit www.stemfin.com.

Revolutionary 9 Pillar AI Architecture Combines Threat Discovery, Intelligence, Prioritization, and Deception for Total Digital Security

SINGAPORE and TOKYO, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CYFIRMA, the global leader in Preemptive External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM), today announced the launch of DeCYFIR 4.0, a groundbreaking evolution of its flagship platform engineered for the AI era. DeCYFIR 4.0 is the first platform of its kind to seamlessly integrate predictive threat intelligence, dynamic deception, real-world threat-led training, and automated exposure management into a unified platform, empowering defenders to anticipate, confuse, and neutralize novel and emerging threats amid the surge in AI-accelerated cyberattacks.

At the heart of this transformative innovation is DeCYFIR 4.0’s robust 9-pillar architecture, delivering comprehensive external threat visibility, proactive risk mitigation, and sector-specific defenses:

1. Attack Surface Discovery & Intelligence
2. Vulnerability Intelligence & Threat Prioritization
3. Brand & Online Exposure Management
4. Digital Risk & Identity Protection
5. Third Party Risk Management
6. Situational Awareness & Emerging Threats
7. Predictive Threat Intelligence
8. Threat Adaptive Awareness and Training
9. Sector Tailored Deception Intelligence

Crowned by the innovative the eighth pillar, Threat Adaptive Awareness and Training, and the groundbreaking ninth pillar, Sector Tailored Deception Intelligence.

Threat Adaptive Awareness and Training delivers real-world, threat-led cybersecurity training that continuously adapts to the evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of active adversaries. By leveraging predictive intelligence and real-time threat insights from the platform, it creates personalized, scenario-based simulations that mirror current and emerging attacks. This ensures security teams and employees remain sharply prepared, reducing human error, the leading cause of breaches, while fostering a proactive security culture and demonstrably improving readiness against sophisticated, AI-driven campaigns.

With Sector Tailored Deception Intelligence, DeCYFIR 4.0 introduces precision deception strategies and intelligence gathering uniquely customized for high-risk sectors such as government, critical infrastructure, healthcare, and finance. This capability enables organizations to deploy highly realistic decoys and honeypots that accurately mimic sector-specific assets, luring attackers into revealing their intent early. As adversaries interact with these tailored traps, the platform captures rich, actionable insights into their tools, techniques, and motivations, thereby turning defense into offense by confusing, derailing, and neutralizing threats long before they can target real systems.

“The adversary’s playbook has been rewritten by AI, demanding a fundamental shift from reactive blocking to proactive disruption,” said Kumar Ritesh, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CYFIRMA. “DeCYFIR is built for this new reality. It decodes adversary behavior and intent in advance, allowing defenders to not just respond, but to strategically preempt. Our platform doesn’t just follow frameworks; it introduces a new operational model for defense.”

DeCYFIR’s pioneering architecture naturally embodies the proactive principles of the industry-recognized Gartner 3D Preemptive Cybersecurity Model (Deceive, Disrupt, Deny). This alignment further validates that DeCYFIR’s strategic approach is not only innovative but also fundamentally future-ready, providing a proven structural blueprint for countering the evolving threat landscape. The platform delivers on this paradigm through actionable capabilities, turning the theory of preemption into a tactical reality for defenders.

Deployable across cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructures, DeCYFIR addresses the rigorous demands of regulated industries, critical infrastructure, and global enterprises. Organizations use DeCYFIR to:

• Deceive: Mislead attackers with false targets and a dynamically shifting attack surface.
• Disrupt: Anticipate and interrupt attacker campaigns before they reach real assets.
• Deny: Block discovery, access, or exploitation of legitimate systems and data.

Key benefits:

• Anticipate attacks weeks or months ahead.
• Reduce attack probability and breach impact.
• Protect brands, IP, and supply chains.
• Bolster defenses against AI-driven threats via proactive governance.

DeCYFIR 4.0’s 9-pillar architecture transforms cybersecurity from reactive to preemptive. It delivers early warnings, prioritizes vulnerabilities, minimizes digital and supply-chain exposure, and builds team readiness through adaptive training. As a unified platform, it eliminates silos, consolidates tools to cut costs, speeds decisions with actionable intelligence, and provides clear ROI via faster incident response and prevented financial/reputational damage so as to keep organizations ahead in a hostile threat landscape.

About CYFIRMA

CYFIRMA is a global leader in preemptive external threat landscape management, enabling organizations to predict and prevent cyberattacks through its AI-powered intelligence platform. By integrating nine pillars of external threat management including Attack Surface Discovery, Vulnerability Intelligence, Brand & Digital Risk Management, Third-Party Risk, Situational Awareness, Predictive Threat Intelligence, Threat Adaptive Awareness, and Sector-Tailored Deception Intelligence, CYFIRMA shifts cybersecurity from reactive to predictive. The platform delivers early warnings, personalized insights, and actionable intelligence from a hacker’s perspective, helping reduce cyber risk and costs through threat prioritization, contextual decision-making, improved visibility, and stronger operational resilience. CYFIRMA serves Fortune 500 companies and national agencies and is headquartered in Singapore with offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA.

Learn more about CYFIRMA @ cyfirma.com

Exclusive Offers for Seoul and Jeju; Flexible Travel through Mar/Oct 2026

SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — T’way Air, Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, announced year-end savings for travel to Korea, with a limited-time promo code and coupons available on flights to Incheon (Seoul) and Jeju Island for bookings made by December 31.

Daily Singapore–Incheon services operate on A330-200/300 aircraft, departing Singapore at 11:00 p.m. and arriving Incheon at 6:35 a.m. the next day. Return flights depart Incheon at 3:30 p.m. and arrive Singapore at 9:25 p.m. (local time).

Daily Singapore–Jeju services operate on Boeing 737-8, departing Singapore at 2:30 a.m., landing in Jeju at 9:30 a.m., while the return flight leaving Jeju at 7:45 p.m. and arriving in Singapore at 1:30 a.m. the next day (local time).

Book by December 31 to unlock T’way Air’s limited-time year-end savings:

• Up to 10% Off Promo Code: enter FLYDEC when booking on Singapore–Incheon (travel through March 28, 2026) and Singapore–Jeju (travel through Oct 24, 2026); valid on one way and round trip.
• SGD 25 Regular Coupon: for bookings over SGD 400, on Singapore–Incheon and Singapore–Jeju; travel through Mar 31, 2026.
• SGD 35 Early Bird Coupon: for bookings over SGD 350, on Singapore–Jeju; travel period Apr 1–Oct 24, 2026.
• Welcome SGD 20 Coupon: sign up at twayair.com and receive SGD 20 off bookings over SGD 180, on Singapore–Incheon and Singapore–Jeju.

T’way Air serves as a gateway to Korea’s seasonal highlights. In spring, Gyeongbokgung and Bukchon‘s Hanok lanes set a classic scene, and summer shifts to Hangang Park for riverside cycling and laid-back picnics. Autumn brings foliage walks along the Namsan trails and Seokchon Lake, while winter wraps up with holiday lights in Myeongdong.

For full flight schedules, coupon terms, and booking details, visit twayair.com. T’way Air currently serves 60 destinations worldwide and continues to expand its network.

About T’way Air

T’way Air Co., Ltd., headquartered in Daegu, South Korea, is a leading low-cost carrier (LCC) providing affordable and reliable air travel since 2010. T’way Air serves customers across East, Southeast, and Central Asia as well as Oceania, Europe, and North America with a modern fleet of Boeing 737-800s, 737 MAX 8s, and Airbus A330s, and Boeing 777-300ERs. T’way Air continues to expand its global network, offering great value to passengers worldwide. For more information, visit www.twayair.com.

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