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Palestinian Journalist Samar Abu Elouf Wins IWMF 2024 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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WASHINGTON, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced freelance photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf as the 10th annual recipient of its Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The global recognition honors women photojournalists who document humanity amid conflict as well as the challenges facing marginalized populations worldwide. This year's award is being issued on April 4, 2024, the 10th anniversary of German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus's passing; Niedringhaus was killed while on assignment in Afghanistan with the Associated Press.

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  • WASHINGTON, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced freelance photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf as the 10th annual recipient of its Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award .
  • This year's award is being issued on April 4, 2024, the 10th anniversary of German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus 's passing; Niedringhaus was killed while on assignment in Afghanistan with the Associated Press.
  • "I am honored to receive this award, to be recognized for my work in Gaza, and to follow in the footsteps of Anja's courage," said Abu Elouf.
  • Anja Niedringhaus was a recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2005.

Saifr® Expands Tech Capabilities by Acquiring New Solution to Help Financial Services Navigate Rising Industry Risks

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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Saifr will acquire GOST, an artificial intelligence platform for adverse media screening and monitoring that serves financial institutions.

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  • Saifr will acquire GOST, an artificial intelligence platform for adverse media screening and monitoring that serves financial institutions.
  • Giant Oak’s GOST technology platform will expand Saifr’s suite of regulatory technology solutions, which aim to simplify the complex regulatory landscape for risk, compliance, and marketing teams in the financial industry.
  • With this addition, financial institutions will have access to new capabilities across regulatory intelligence, due diligence, risk management analytics, and continuous monitoring.
  • “Financial institutions continue to seek ways to address regulatory, compliance and data security challenges,” said Vall Hèrard, CEO of Saifr.

GOST® Performance Milestone Finally Makes Perpetual KYC Possible for Enterprise Businesses and Financial Institutions

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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"The challenge we accepted over the last two years was one of scale; GOST has out-performed every incumbent in the market for adverse media screening as measured in effectiveness and efficiency, has done so in utility-like fashion with privacy-preserving uses of Transfer Learning. But we lacked the scale to deploy at the largest institutions," said Giant Oak founder and CEO, Gary M. Shiffman. "With fantastic strategic partners and customers, as of today GOST is enabling one person to screen ten million customers every day -- a truly historic milestone certain to impact the market."

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  • But we lacked the scale to deploy at the largest institutions," said Giant Oak founder and CEO, Gary M. Shiffman.
  • This expanded capability enables financial institutions and FinTechs of any size to immediately respond to the U.S. Treasury Department's FinCEN AML/CFT Priorities.
  • I am now sure that, regardless of size, GOST will identify previously unknown risks to financial institutions and threats to the public we all serve.
  • It will begin to drive decision-making confidence and trust at other institutions that it is okay to take similar journeys, and in fact, they must.

Giant Oak Releases New Updates to GOST, Enhancing Risk Assessment to Identify Corruption, Terrorism, Money Laundering, and Other Illicit Activities

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
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ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Giant Oak, a leader in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the compliance and risk needs of business and government, today announces updates to their GOST® product. The Fall 2022 GOST Release introduces three primary updates: a 200% increase in precision of alerts; modular management of customized models; and expanded access to GOSTCrawl, a proprietary data source that increases the customer's risk discovery. The new GOST updates reduce analyst labor by 50% while increasing the accuracy and agility of results. The combined improvements allow GOST users to monitor large populations more efficiently and effectively than other risk identification platforms.

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  • The new GOST updates reduce analyst labor by 50% while increasing the accuracy and agility of results.
  • The combined improvements allow GOST users to monitor large populations more efficiently and effectively than other risk identification platforms.
  • "Our mission is to make the world a safer place by contributing technology to the global screening and vetting community.
  • Traditional screening methods use point-in-time data like static lists to make risk assessments, resulting in false positives and missed information.

Giant Oak, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Jon Elvin As Chief Commercial Officer

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
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ARLINGTON, Va., March 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today Giant Oak, Inc. announced the appointment of Jon Elvin as chief commercial officer, effective February 18, 2022.

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  • ARLINGTON, Va., March 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today Giant Oak, Inc. announced the appointment of Jon Elvin as chief commercial officer, effective February 18, 2022.
  • Today Giant Oak, Inc. announced the appointment of financial crimes veteran Jon Elvin as chief commercial officer.
  • A seasoned financial crimes and compliance professional, Jon Elvin brings strategic leadership and operational insights.
  • As chief commercial officer, Jon will be responsible for Giant Oak's go-to-market strategy, particularly the commercial financial sector.

The Fluke 1770 Series Three-Phases Power Quality Analyzers Eliminate the Complexities of PQ Logging to Speed Studies

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Thursday, October 28, 2021
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The new Fluke 1770 Series Three-Phase Power Quality Analyzers eliminate the complexities of power quality logging, troubleshooting, and analysis with automatic measurements, a straightforward user interface and setup, best-in-class specifications, and a simplified reporting platform.

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  • The new Fluke 1770 Series Three-Phase Power Quality Analyzers eliminate the complexities of power quality logging, troubleshooting, and analysis with automatic measurements, a straightforward user interface and setup, best-in-class specifications, and a simplified reporting platform.
  • Automatic measurement of power and power quality parameters Critical power quality data is captured as soon as a session is started, without extensive setup or selections.
  • Fluke 1770 Series Power Quality Analyzers come standard with the powerful Fluke Energy Analyze Plus software, designed to analyze power quality data right out of the box without extensive training.
  • For more information on the Fluke 1770 Series Three-Phase Power Quality Analyzers, visit: http://www.fluke.com/1770 .

EQS-News: PJSC Mechel : MECHEL WINS MAJOR TENDER TO SUPPLY TRAM RAILS TO MOSCOW METRO

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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Chelyabinsk, Russia - September 21, 2021 - Mechel PAO (MOEX: MTLR, NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports winning the tender for supplying tram rails to Moscow Metro.

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  • Chelyabinsk, Russia - September 21, 2021 - Mechel PAO (MOEX: MTLR, NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports winning the tender for supplying tram rails to Moscow Metro.
  • The contract stipulates supplies of over 5,000 tonnes of RT62-type rails.
  • "Last year Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant supplied Moscow Metro with 25,000 tonnes of main-line rails for construction of new lines and repairs of existing ones.
  • We consider city transport infrastructure as a promising market segment for our rails," Mechel Steel Management Company OOO's Chief Executive Officer Andrey Ponomarev said.

Giant Oak's GOST Search Tool Awarded U.S. Patent

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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ARLINGTON, Va., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Giant Oak, Inc. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No.

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  • ARLINGTON, Va., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Giant Oak, Inc. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No.
  • 10,885,124 is employed primarily in Giant Oak's hosted SaaS solution, GOST (Giant Oak Search Technology).
  • 10,885,124 or about GOST (Giant Oak Search Technology), please visit giantoak.com or email [email protected] .
  • GOST is an open-source search and triage tool that builds a custom internet domain and organizes information to detect suspicious behavior.

Giant Oak Releases New Updates to GOST, Enhancing Screening to Identify Money Launderers, Human Traffickers, and Other Illicit Activity

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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The Spring 2021 GOST Release enhances performance of entity resolution, improving efficiency and effectiveness in the screening process.

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  • The Spring 2021 GOST Release enhances performance of entity resolution, improving efficiency and effectiveness in the screening process.
  • Additionally, the Spring 2021 GOST Release introduces new search processing infrastructure to support large-scale, ongoing monitoring on a near-real-time basis.
  • "With these GOST updates, people now have a powerful machine-learning-based tool to easily search and identify the most important information on the right people."
  • "We look forward to these new updates exceeding client expectations and ensuring a faster and more efficient screening process,"said Harsh Pandya, president of Giant Oak.

Giant Oak Joins The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council to Further Strengthen the Country’s Homeland Security Mission 

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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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Giant Oak announced that it has joined The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, further expanding its commitment to ensuring a safer and freer world.

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  • Giant Oak announced that it has joined The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, further expanding its commitment to ensuring a safer and freer world.
  • We are excited and honored to welcome Giant Oak to the Council, said Marc Pearl, President and CEO of the HSDBC.
  • We look forward to engaging Giant Oak and our new members in our efforts to build and strengthen relationships between industry and government.
  • Since 2014, Giant Oak has helped the homeland security enterprise exploit publicly available information (PAI) through the development and evolution of GOST.