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Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program 2021 Handing Young Leaders the Torch of Corporate Social Responsibility

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C)

The yearly Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program (CIP) continues, lighting up the way for local business university students to venture into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social awareness. 2021 marks the 11th year of the program.

CIP is sponsored and organized by Citi and co-organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS). The program is a first-of-its-kind cross-sector collaboration between academia, business and the NGO sector to provide local university students with internship opportunities at local non-profit organizations in order to cultivate the concept of CSR and broaden young talents’ understanding of the community.

The program gives Hong Kong’s future business leaders the chance to work with local non-profit organizations to tackle obstacles faced by the Hong Kong community. 80 business school students from 10 local universities are selected and will be placed into 40 different non-governmental organizations (NGOs) this summer, enabling them to contribute their knowledge and expertise to build capacity for the NGOs.

At the launch ceremony, Ms. Wendy Hu, Managing Director and Team Head, Hong Kong, Citi Private Bank said: “Citi has always been proud of our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility. This is the 11th year we have run CIP, nurturing the concept of CSR in more than 770 leaders of tomorrow. We believe understanding both the community and its challenges are central skills essential to being a future leader. We are committed to continuing this program and collaborating with our partner HKCSS to be the catalyst that enables young talent to bring good and positive changes to our society.”

Mr. Chua Hoi Wai, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, has also added: “This year marks the 11th anniversary of CIP. We are glad to continue our partnership with Citi in this meaningful program and would like to express our gratitude towards our university partners and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for their continuous support. In retrospect, business students contributed their expertise and innovative ideas to the NGO sector through this internship program. The alumni’s devotion to the society and their continuous efforts to put CSR into practice are our drive to sustain the program. We hope the interns in 2021 continue to brighten the community with the spirit of CIP and Corporate Social Responsibility.”

The 80 interns will work in 40 NGOs for 160 hours or more during July and August of 2021. They’re serving various community groups, including low-income families, the elderly and persons with disabilities, as well as helping in environmental conservation, providing strategic and operational assistance to their assigned NGOs in areas including but not limited to network building, brand-building, fundraising, social enterprise business, operations and community service support. They will also be given 20 hours of in-depth training on NGO operation and pressing community issues such as poverty gap, population ageing and environmental conservation. The training also includes seminars on CSR and cross-sector partnerships, visits to non-profit and social enterprises, as well as opportunities to interact with various underprivileged groups.

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Ms. Wendy Hu, Managing Director and Team Head, Hong Kong, Citi Private Bank (middle) and Mr. Chua Hoi Wai, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (left), along with a representative of the CIP Alumni, mark the official launch of Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program 2021.

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(first row sixth from left) Ms. Wendy Hu, Managing Director and Team Head, Hong Kong, Citi Private Bank and (first row fifth from left) Mr. Chua Hoi Wai, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, pictured with the interns, NGO and university representatives, at the launch ceremony for the Citi-HKCSS Community Intern Program 2021.

About Citi

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://new.citi.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi

About HKCSS

The HKCSS is an umbrella organisation of 490 agency members that provide over 90% of the social welfare services in Hong Kong. HKCSS launched the Caring Company Scheme in 2002 to build a cohesive society by promoting strategic partnership among business and social service partners and inspiring corporate social responsibility through caring for the community, employees and the environment. HKCSS puts much effort in building capacity for social enterprises through the Social Enterprise Business Centre (SEBC) to advance social entrepreneurship and mobilize social innovation.

Additional information may be found at www.hkcss.org.hk | Facebook: www.facebook.com/hkcssfans

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Medallia named LEADER in Report for Customer Feedback Management Platforms by Independent Research Firm; Steps up Presence in Korea

Medallia Experience Cloud receives one of the highest scores in strategy and market presence categories.

 

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – Medallia, Inc. (NYSE: MDLA), the global leader in customer and employee experience, has been recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Platforms, Q2 2021.


The global report evaluated 12 service providers based on 33 criteria. Medallia was among the highest scoring vendors in the strategy category, receiving the highest scores possible in execution and delivery on roadmap, product vision and strategy, enterprise strategy, partner strategy, and services strategy criteria.

Mr Greg Philiotis, SVP, Head of International Industry Sales, Medallia, commented, “We will continue to do what we do best in customer and employee experience management – helping our clients engage meaningfully with stakeholders at all levels, using our proprietary and scalable software-as-a-service platform – Medallia Experience Cloud™.”

Medallia Experience Cloud™ uniquely fuses human and machine learning to reveal the most relevant customer insights, and makes them actionable to every role across an organisation. By integrating opinions with operational data, companies are empowered to make smarter, more effective decisions.

Over the last seven years, Medallia’s operations in APAC has grown significantly from a single market in Australia to five markets, including South Korea which was established last year.

Mr Kwanghak Kim, Country Manager of Korea commented, “We are very focused on turning signals into actions that drive growth. We look forward to deepening partnerships with our growing customer base in Korea and working closely with them to fulfill the ever-evolving customer and employee expectations.”

About Medallia

Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) is the pioneer and market leader in customer, employee, citizen and patient experience. The company’s award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud™, is the experience system of record that makes all other applications customer and employee aware. The platform captures billions of experience signals across interactions including all voice, video, digital, IoT, social media and corporate messaging tools. Medallia uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically reveal predictive insights that drive powerful business actions and outcomes. Medallia customers reduce churn, turn detractors into promoters and buyers, create in-the-moment cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and drive revenue-impacting business decisions, providing clear and potent returns on investment. For more information visit www.medallia.com.

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DYXnet wins Bronze STEVIE® Award for its excellent MPLS & SD-WAN hybrid network solution

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – DYXnet, a leading carrier-neutral network service provider in Greater China, announces that it was named the winner of Bronze Stevie Award for Innovation in Technology Management, Planning & Implementation (Telecommunications Industries) in the 2021 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards with its outstanding MPLS & SD-WAN hybrid network solution.

The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business awards program to recognize innovation in the workplace in all 29 nations of the Asia-Pacific region. The Stevie Awards are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs such as The International Business Awards® for 19 years.

More than 900 nominations from organizations across the Asia-Pacific region were considered this year in different categories. The award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 100 executives around the world acting as judges in March and April.

“We are honored to be recognized by one of the world’s premier business award for our strong network and technology management capability. With today’s fast-evolving society and technology, business continuity is of paramount importance for enterprises to strengthen competitiveness and this has always been the value we committed to bring to our customers,” said Tony Tsang, Chief Executive Officer of DYXnet. “The Stevie Award we received fully demonstrates our ability to provide top-notch hybrid network solutions, and also recognizes our commitment to assisting corporate customers in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve operational excellence.”

With its growing popularity over the years, DYXnet has put substantial resources into the development of its network solutions and has achieved various recognitions including the “SD-WAN Ready” certificate initiated by the Committee on SDN/NFV/AI Standards and Industry Promotion (CCSA TC610) and the “Asia Pacific Zero Outage Supplier Award 2019” from T-Systems. All these recognitions strongly demonstrate DXYnet’s leading position in assisting enterprises to accelerate business performance with a full suite of advanced network solutions.

About DYXnet

Being one of the leading carrier-neutral enterprise network service providers in Greater China, DYXnet has been specialized in providing enterprise network solutions including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), internet access, data center services, and network security solutions to enterprise clients via efficient provisioning capabilities in numerous cities throughout Greater China and the wider Asia-Pacific region. In response to the evolving needs of its ever-growing customer base, DYXnet enlarges its product portfolio to further deliver enterprise cloud and SaaS solutions. DYXnet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 21Vianet Group (NASDAQ: VNET), a leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider in China.

With its outstanding performance in delivering secure, stable, and comprehensive network services, DYXnet was among the first ICT service providers in Greater China to obtain several ISO international certifications including ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018, and ISO 9001:2015 that reinforce the high standards of its information security, IT service management, and quality management, respectively.

For more information about DYXnet, please visit www.dyxnet.com.

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About the Stevie® Awards

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

Medallia named LEADER in Report for Customer Feedback Management Platforms by Independent Research Firm; Steps up Presence in Japan

Medallia Experience Cloud receives one of the highest scores in strategy and market presence categories.

 

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – Medallia, Inc. (NYSE: MDLA), the global leader in customer and employee experience, has been recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Platforms, Q2 2021.

The global report evaluated 12 service providers based on 33 criteria. Medallia was among the highest scoring vendors in the strategy category, receiving the highest scores possible in execution and delivery on roadmap, product vision and strategy, enterprise strategy, partner strategy, and services strategy criteria.

Mr Greg Philiotis, SVP, Head of International Industry Sales, Medallia, commented, “We will continue to do what we do best in customer and employee experience management – helping our clients engage meaningfully with stakeholders at all levels, using our proprietary and scalable software-as-a-service platform – Medallia Experience Cloud™.”

Medallia Experience Cloud™ uniquely fuses human and machine learning to reveal the most relevant customer insights, and makes them actionable to every role across an organisation. By integrating opinions with operational data, companies are empowered to make smarter, more effective decisions.

Over the last seven years, Medallia’s operations in APAC has grown significantly from a single market in Australia to five markets. The newly-established Japan office has, within a short span of one year, built robust rapport with clients and partners of similar vision.

Mr Oura Manabu, Head of Japan commented, “We are very focused on turning signals into actions that drive growth. We look forward to working closely with like-minded partners like Ipsos to help companies in Japan fulfil the ever-evolving customer and employee expectations.”

About Medallia

Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) is the pioneer and market leader in customer, employee, citizen and patient experience. The company’s award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud™, is the experience system of record that makes all other applications customer and employee aware. The platform captures billions of experience signals across interactions including all voice, video, digital, IoT, social media and corporate messaging tools. Medallia uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically reveal predictive insights that drive powerful business actions and outcomes. Medallia customers reduce churn, turn detractors into promoters and buyers, create in-the-moment cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and drive revenue-impacting business decisions, providing clear and potent returns on investment. For more information visit jp.medallia.com.

#Medallia

Asian Productivity Organization: Tokyo Statement on the Centrality of Productivity

TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – As the economic and humanitarian crises in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic escalate to epic proportions and the world reels at the grim prospects of viral variants described as “far more deadly” by the WHO, the 21 countries that make up the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) offer a sliver of hope by declaring their resolve to continue the productivity movement, leveraging it to guide the region through new, harsh challenges in the years ahead.

Survival is paramount. Enterprises and SMEs must be resilient and the workforce adaptable to new workstyles and new types of business. Productivity is the foundation of this survival, not only for becoming more competitive but also in the broader, philosophical sense of “making tomorrow better than today.”

Drawing upon its 60 years of engagement in Asia and the Pacific, the APO crystallizes the key lessons of its six decades of journey in a joint statement, “The Tokyo Statement on the Centrality of Productivity.” Issued at the conclusion of its 63rd Governing Body Meeting on 9 June 2021, the statement serves as a beacon to traverse a turbulent future.

The statement outlines key priority targets of the APO for 2021–2025. Those targets support the APO Vision 2025 in striving for “inclusive, innovation-led productivity growth in Asia and the Pacific.”

The priority targets cover four broad areas. The first is leveraging new drivers of productivity. In today’s extraordinary circumstances, productivity improvement efforts must yield extraordinary results. New drivers that include innovation, advanced technologies, and digitalization are expected to lead to exponential productivity gains.

The second involves enhancing productivity tools, techniques, and methodologies. Upgrading and upskilling are imperative given ongoing rapid, dynamic changes. New business styles, new work styles, and new business platforms have become the norms. Productivity tools, techniques, and methodologies must therefore be continuously updated to support the latest trends.

Third is making productivity more inclusive. This means broadening the outreach and applications of productivity to embrace persons with different abilities, in addition to women, youth, and socially vulnerable groups.

The fourth priority is strengthening National Productivity Organizations as the premiere productivity-promoting institutions, equipping them to be policy partners for their governments.

The Tokyo Statement underlines a renewed commitment to the mutual cooperation that has been the hallmark of the APO. The full text is available at: www.apo-tokyo.org.

About the APO

The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) is an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1961, the APO contributes to the sustainable socioeconomic development of the region through policy advisory services, institutional capacity-building efforts, sharing of productivity best practices, and dissemination of productivity data and analyses.

The current APO membership comprises 21 economies: Bangladesh; Cambodia; Republic of China; Fiji; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Islamic Republic of Iran; Japan; Republic of Korea; Lao PDR; Malaysia; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Turkey; and Vietnam.

#AsianProductivityOrganization #APO

Medallia named LEADER in Report for Customer Feedback Management Platforms by Independent Research Firm

Medallia Experience Cloud receives one of the highest scores in strategy and market presence categories.

 

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – Medallia, Inc. (NYSE: MDLA), the global leader in customer and employee experience, has been recognised as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Platforms, Q2 2021.

The global report evaluated 12 service providers based on 33 criteria. Medallia was among the highest scoring vendors in the strategy category, receiving the highest scores possible in execution and delivery on roadmap, product vision and strategy, enterprise strategy, partner strategy, and services strategy criteria.

Mr Greg Philiotis, SVP, Head of International Industry Sales, Medallia, commented, “We will continue to do what we do best in customer and employee experience management – helping our clients engage meaningfully with stakeholders at all levels, using our proprietary and scalable software-as-a-service platform – Medallia Experience Cloud™.”

Medallia Experience Cloud™ uniquely fuses human and machine learning to reveal the most relevant customer insights, and makes them actionable to every role across an organisation. By integrating opinions with operational data, companies are empowered to make smarter, more effective decisions.

Over the last seven years, Medallia’s operations in APAC has grown significantly from a single market in Australia to five markets, including New Zealand, Singapore, Korea, Japan.

Mr Philiotis added, “We are very focused on turning signals into actions that drive growth. The team looks forward to deepening our partnerships with clients in the region, by helping them act at the speed of both employee and customer expectations.”

About Medallia

Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) is the pioneer and market leader in customer, employee, citizen and patient experience. The company’s award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud™, is the experience system of record that makes all other applications customer and employee aware. The platform captures billions of experience signals across interactions including all voice, video, digital, IoT, social media and corporate messaging tools. Medallia uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to automatically reveal predictive insights that drive powerful business actions and outcomes. Medallia customers reduce churn, turn detractors into promoters and buyers, create in-the-moment cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and drive revenue-impacting business decisions, providing clear and potent returns on investment. For more information visit www.medallia.com.

#Medallia

Nefilim Ransomware Targets Victims with $1 Billion Revenue

Trend Micro report takes a deep dive into one of the most successful threat groups in modern

 

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 9 June 2021 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today released a case study of the Nefilim ransomware group, providing insight into the inner-workings of modern ransomware attacks. The report gives valuable insight into how ransomware groups have evolved, operate under the radar and how advanced threat detection and response platforms can help stop them.

The approach of modern ransomware families makes detection and response significantly more difficult for already stretched SOC and IT security teams. This matters not only to the bottom line and corporate reputation, but also the wellbeing of SOC teams themselves.

To read the report “Modern Ransomware’s Double Extortion Tactics and How to Protect Enterprises Against Them”: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/modern-ransomwares-double-extortion-tactics-and-how-to-protect-enterprises-against-them.

“Modern ransomware attacks are highly targeted, adaptable and stealthy – using proven approaches perfected by APT groups in the past. By stealing data and locking key systems, groups like Nefilim look to extort highly profitable global organizations,” said Bob McArdle, director of cybercrime research for Trend Micro. “Our latest report is a must-read for anyone in the industry who wants to understand this fast-growing underground economy inside-out, and how solutions like Trend Micro Vision One can help them hit back.”

Of the 16 ransomware groups studied from March 2020 to January 2021, Conti, Doppelpaymer, Egregor and REvil led the way in terms of number of victims exposed—and Cl0p had the most stolen data hosted online at 5TB.

However, with its ruthless focus on organizations posting more than $1 billion in revenue, Nefilim extorted the highest median revenue.

As the report reveals, a Nefilim attack typically involves the following stages:

  • Initial access that exploits weak credentials on exposed RDP services or other externally facing HTTP services.
  • Once inside, legitimate admin tools are used for lateral movement to find valuable systems for data theft and encryption.
  • A “call home” system is set up with Cobalt Strike and protocols that can pass through firewalls, like HTTP, HTTPS and DNS.
  • Bulletproof hosting services are used for C&C servers.
  • Data is exfiltrated and published on TOR-protected websites later to extort victim. Nefilim published around 2TB of data last year.
  • Ransomware payload is launched manually once enough data has been exfiltrated.

Trend Micro has previously warned of the widespread use of legitimate tools such as AdFind, Cobalt Strike, Mimikatz, Process Hacker, PsExec, and MegaSync, to help ransomware attackers achieve their end goal while staying hidden. This can make it challenging for different SOC analysts looking at event logs from different parts of the environment to see the bigger picture and spot attacks.

Trend Micro Vision One monitors and correlates suspicious behavior across multiple layers—endpoints, emails, servers, and cloud workloads—to ensure there’s no hiding space for threat actors. This makes for faster incident response times, and teams can often stop attacks before they’ve had a chance to make a serious impact on the organization.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.trendmicro.com.hk


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