On Tuesday, in the course of current trade, Shares of Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), gained 1.58%, and is now trading at $10.60.
Regions Financial Corporation, launched a month-long community service program designed to raise awareness and resources for nonprofit organizations that serve people with disabilities. The bank’s second annual “What a Difference a Day Makes” program will recognize the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed on July 26, 1990.
As part of the program, 19 nonprofits throughout the South, Midwest and Texas will compete in the 2015 What a Difference a Day Makes Grant Award Contest hosted by Regions during the month of June. The organization that receives the most votes in the online contest will win a grand prize comprising of 100 volunteer hours from Regions associates and a $5,000 grant from the company. Each of the remaining 18 participating nonprofits will receive an honorable mention prize comprising of 50 volunteer service hours from Regions associates and a $500 grant from the company.
“Raising awareness about the daily challenges people with disabilities face, the progress that has been made, and the work yet to be done is crucially important,” explained Kathy Lovell, Americans with Disabilities Act manager for Regions Bank. “At Regions, we believe in supporting those who make the community a better place to live. What a Difference a Day Makes shines a light on these tremendous organizations. We will supply the funds and the sweat equity. But, more importantly, the public can learn more about these difference makers and the vital services they provide in our communities.”
Regions Financial Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, provides banking and bank-related services to individual and corporate customers in the United States. Its Corporate Bank segment offers commercial banking services, such as commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and investor real estate lending, in addition to equipment lease financing services.
During an Afternoon trade, Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), dipped -0.24%, and is now trading at $42.99.
Oracle Corporation - Oracle Utilities introduced Oracle Utilities Service Order Administration, the industry’s first commercially accessible service order automation solution designed to assist utilities improve operational efficiency, accelerate issue resolution, reduce costs, and enhance customer service.
Oracle Utilities Service Order Administration — a first-of-its-kind application — automates service order administration with an intelligent integration hub. The new solution initiates service task workflows across multiple systems, such as customer service, metering, work and asset, network/grid, and analytics. When a trigger process is accomplished in an integrated system, Oracle Utilities Service Order Administration automatically identifies the next steps and communicates them across the platform to initiate, coordinate, and track those workflows.
As metering technology becomes more advanced, utilities are often faced with increasingly siloed and complex service order processes. Typically, orders are managed in the customer information system, while advanced metering infrastructure integration resides within the meter data administration system. This siloed architecture and these antiquated business processes result in inefficient service order administration across systems, complex integrations, and raised operating costs due to redundant or unnecessary fieldwork. Oracle Utilities Service Order Administration assists to automate and streamline operations with a centralized, intelligent orchestration engine.
Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems, and related services worldwide. It provides software and hardware systems, and related services to manage their cloud-based or on-premise IT environments, in addition to to deploy cloud software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service.
Finally, Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE:KGC), gained 1.78% Tuesday.
Kinross Gold Corporation, declared a new partnership with Project C.U.R.E. to deliver US$7 million in donated medical supplies to Mauritania and Ghana over the next three years.
Project C.U.R.E. is a U.S.-based, not-for-profit organization that provides donated medical supplies from hospitals and clinics around the U.S. to countries in need. Under the partnership, a total of 15 ocean-going cargo containers filled with supplies, counting X-ray machines, autoclaves, wheelchairs and operating tables, will be delivered. The partnership also comprises support for Project C.U.R.E.’s specialized program in maternal and neonatal care, Assisting Babies Breathe, which provides training to local health practitioners and provides basic equipment, such as neonatal resuscitation tools.
Kinross will provide a grant of US$167,000 per year for three years to fund the logistics surrounding the procurement and transport of the donated medical supplies, training costs for the Assisting Babies Breathe program, and to support the monitoring and evaluation of the donation’s impact on improving capacity, affordability, accessibility and quality of care at the recipient healthcare facilities.
Kinross Gold Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of gold bearing properties. It is involved in mining and processing gold and silver ores. The company’s gold production and exploration activities are carried out principally in Canada, the United States, the Russian Federation, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, and Mauritania.
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