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• ZÜRICH, Switzerland, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SDX , Switzerland's first fully regulated FMI for digital assets, announces that it has entered into comprehensive discussions with CV VC , Switzerland's prominent VC for tech startups.
• CV VC, renowned for its expertise in identifying promising portfolio companies, will actively seek opportunities to leverage its knowledge in tandem with SDX.
• SDX and CV VC are exploring use cases to empower emerging companies to access SDX's digital private equity ecosystem, seamlessly connecting them with partnering financial institutions and offering streamlined funding solutions, enhanced automation, and transparency.
• "Like SDX, CV VC believes that the financial market infrastructure, in Switzerland and beyond, is presently optimized for public companies, yet there are plenty of opportunities in private equity markets.

• Whatever the investigation concludes, the incident forms part of a complex, deep-rooted problem.
• Many of the issues behind the unrest back then remain unresolved to this day and have potentially been aggravated by ever worsening relations between the police and the public.

The suburbs and poverty

• Evidence has long shown that people living in poor suburbs can expect to face discrimination based on the very fact of living in those suburbs when they apply for a job.
• But his vision does not include any plan for using economic growth to bring opportunity to the suburbs or, viewed the other way round, to harness the potential of the suburbs to drive economic growth.
• In two presidential terms, he has failed to produce a coherent policy for solving some of the key problems of the suburbs.

Police brutality

• Police brutality is a topic of great concern in France at the moment, beyond the Nanterre incident.
• In a recent interview I helped conduct for a documentary in the suburbs of Marseille, residents pointed to successive cuts to community based police officers, based in the estates, as key reasons for increases in tension between the population and the police.
• And yet, the police are extremely hostile to reform, a stance that is aided and abetted by their powerful unions and Macron himself, who needs the police to crush opposition to his reforms.

Macron vs Sarkozy

• Former president Nicolas Sarkozy is infamous for inflaming tensions during the 2005 riots by referring to the people involved as “scum” who needed to be pressure washed from the suburbs.
• Macron, too, has been repeatedly criticised for striking an arrogant, tone during his political career, making numerous gaffs including suggesting an unemployed worker only needed to “cross the street” to find work.
• However, his consiliatory response to the death of Nahel could not be further removed from Sarkozy’s stance.

• LONDON, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hans Langenhuizen of NL based fintech company in3 has been named in the 2023 Business Worldwide Magazine CEO Awards.
• The awards seek to identify and celebrate the world's most impressive business leaders, across a range of industries.
• The aim is to give outstanding business leaders the recognition they deserve, while inspiring others to achieve similar successes.
• Hans Langenhuizen was the outright winner in his category, "Most Innovative CEO in the payments industry."

• VASCEPA is now the first and only drug approved by SFDA as an adjunct to statin therapy in adult patients with elevated triglycerides (TG) levels (≥150 mg/dL) who are at high-risk of cardiovascular (CV) events due to established cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus and at least one other risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
• “We are excited that patients in KSA will now have the opportunity to benefit from the proven cardiovascular risk reduction with VASCEPA following the approval by the SFDA,” said Steven Ketchum, PhD., President, Research & Development and Chief Scientific Officer, Amarin.
• “Today’s approval also marks an important step in our strategy to expand the global footprint where VASCEPA/VAZKEPA is indicated for cardiovascular risk reduction, built from the results seen in the REDUCE-IT outcomes trial.
• Amarin is responsible for providing regulatory assistance, supply and maintaining intellectual property in the region.