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Learning Tree International Awarded Multi-Year NATO NCIA Commercial Training Services Contract – IFB-CO-423236-TRN

LONDON, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Learning Tree International, a global leader in workforce transformation and mission-critical technology training, has been awarded a multi-year contract by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Communications-and Information Agency (NCIA) as their Education and Training industry partner.

The Commercial Training Services Contract – IFB-CO-423236-TRN includes provision of training solutions for over 3,000 students a year across European and North American NATO entities ensuring staff have the required skills for operational readiness throughout the contract term.

The award builds on a strategic partnership in support of NATO’s technical, cyber, and operational workforce development. This contract reflects NATO’s confidence in Learning Tree’s ability to deliver innovative, consistent, scalable, and mission-aligned training within one of the world’s most complex multinational defence environments.

Under the agreement, Learning Tree will deliver commercial and tailored instructor-led training designed to strengthen NATO’s digital, cyber, and technical capabilities across the Alliance. The training will be delivered through a combination of private team training courses and open schedules.

Strengthening the Skills of NATO’s Workforce

Learning Tree will provide training across:

With more than 50 years of experience supporting enterprise, public sector, and defence organisations in over 65 countries, Learning Tree brings deep institutional knowledge of secure delivery requirements, operational readiness standards, and evolving digital capability priorities. The company is recognised globally for delivering instructor-led training in highly regulated and security-sensitive environments.

“Being selected by NATO for a multi-year agreement reflects the strength of our partnership and the trust placed in Learning Tree’s secure workforce transformation solutions,” said David Brown, Chief Executive Officer at Learning Tree International. “For over 15 years, we have proudly supported NATO in strengthening workforce readiness across cyber, digital, and technical domains.”

As NATO continues to modernise its technology infrastructure and enhance cyber resilience, Learning Tree will provide accredited, mission-aligned training to ensure operational readiness across the Alliance.

This multi-year award further reinforces Learning Tree’s position as a premier global provider of secure workforce transformation solutions for defence and government organisations.

About Learning Tree International

Learning Tree International is a global leader in workforce development and technology training solutions. For more than 50 years, Learning Tree has helped organisations and professionals around the world develop the critical skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape. The company’s instructor-led and hybrid learning programmes empower individuals and organisations to accelerate transformation, enhance performance, and achieve lasting results.
Visit www.LearningTree.co.uk to learn more.

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Africa’s Tax Leaders Convene in Morocco to discuss International Tax Developments

Rabat, Morocco, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tax leaders from across the continent are meeting in Morocco’s capital city to discuss the impact of international tax issues on Africa, in the 11th edition of the Africa Tax Symposium (ATS). Held in a North African country for the first time, the topical ATS programme will run from 3 to 5 June 2026.

Hosted by the IBFD Centre for Studies in African Taxation (IBFD-CSAT), the 11th Africa Tax Symposium tackles the practical challenges faced by governments and tax practitioners in the application of domestic law and tax treaties. Some of the key topics include the taxation of cross-border services, current tax treaty controversies, practical transfer pricing issues, the future of tax administration, and recent developments in global tax governance.

“The Africa Tax Symposium is the leading global conference on international taxation in Africa,” says Belema Obuoforibo, Chair of the IBFD Centre for Studies in African Taxation, and Member of IBFD’s Executive Board. “Over the past ten years, the Symposium has established itself as a key forum for impactful discussions on international tax policy and practice in Africa.”

“Taxation is an instrument of sovereignty, a lever for tax equity, a factor in competitiveness, but also a pact of trust between the state and the citizen,” states Mr. Youness Idrissi Kaitouni, Director General, General Tax Administration of Morocco. “Today, Africa must be a driving force, a fully engaged player in shaping the new rules of global tax governance…. It was in this spirit that, five years ago, Framework Law No. 6919 on tax reform set out the ambition for a profound overhaul of [Morocco’s] tax system.” The 11th edition of ATS is held in partnership with the Morocco General Tax Administration.

The ATS is a renowned forum that uniquely represents a plethora of perspectives on taxation in Africa, offering a 360° view relevant to policy, practice, administration, industry, and academia. A careful selection  of notable, high-profile speakers will offer their insights, including Director-General of the Morocco General Tax Administration, Younes Idrissi Kaitouni; the First Lady of the Republic of Seychelles, H.E. Veronique Herminie; the Commissioner of the Namibia Revenue Authority,  Sam Shivute, and many more world-class taxation experts.

The Symposium was preceded by the Masterclass on Selected Topics in International Taxation and Transfer Pricing, held 1-2 June 2026, offering practical, hands-on insights and comprehensive coverage on Permanent Establishment (PE) rules in practice, Pillar Two Global Minimum Tax (GMT ) rules, and the Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-up Tax (QDMTT).

To learn more about the ATS event, taking place at the Sofitel Jardin des Roses Rabat, visit: 11th Africa Tax Symposium | IBFD 

The closing ceremony on Friday, June 5 at 12:35am is open to the press, followed by media interviews (upon request) at 2:00pm on June 5th. 

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Oceana Calls on Governments to Put Coastal Communities First at Our Ocean Conference in Kenya

Kate Walsh to join Oceana in Mombasa to meet with small-scale fishers and help elevate coastal voices in global ocean decision making

MOMBASA, Kenya, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ahead of the 11th annual Our Ocean Conference taking place June 16-18 in Mombasa, Kenya, Oceana — the world’s largest ocean conservation organization — is calling on governments to strengthen protections for critical marine habitats, increase transparency in global fisheries, and put small-scale fishers and coastal communities at the center of ocean decision making.

This year marks the first time the Our Ocean Conference will be held on the African continent. Since its launch in 2014, the conference has generated more than 2,900 commitments worth over $169 billion in support of ocean action.

Betsy Njagi, Principal Secretary in Kenya’s State Department for the Blue Economy and Fisheries said, “For millions across Africa, the ocean is essential to food security, livelihoods, economic opportunity, and climate resilience. Yet marine ecosystems face growing threats. As the conference convenes in Africa for the first time, it marks an important milestone for ocean governance, marine conservation, and the sustainable blue economy. It is also an opportunity to strengthen international cooperation and accelerate action to protect the ocean for future generations.”

Actor and ocean advocate Kate Walsh will join Oceana’s experts in Mombasa to meet with local fishers and community leaders to help amplify their perspectives on the importance of sustainable fisheries and healthy oceans for food security and livelihoods across Africa.

“I’m honored to meet with local fishers here in Kenya and hear directly from the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on healthy oceans,” said Walsh. “Their voices must be included as leaders make decisions that will shape the future of our oceans.”

Across Africa, hundreds of millions of people rely on the ocean for food and income, yet marine ecosystems are under increasing pressure from overfishing, pollution, and climate change.

“On research trips over the years, I see the same patterns repeated from one coastline to another: marine ecosystems are facing greater pressures, fishing is becoming more dangerous, and fish are scarcer and more expensive,” said Dr. Christina Chemtai Hicks, a Kenyan British Professor at Lancaster University, Pew Marine Fellow, and Oceana Board Member. “Across Africa’s coastlines and around the world, fishing communities are exposed to declining fish populations, rising costs, and climate impacts. This conference is an opportunity for leaders to advance ocean policies that protect food security, livelihoods, and marine ecosystems together.”

Industrial fishing activity in African waters, including by foreign-owned fleets, continues to raise concerns about transparency, accountability, and equitable access to marine resources. Much of that catch is exported to wealthier nations, reducing what is available for local communities that depend on seafood for nutrition and livelihoods.

Improving transparency in global fisheries, including stronger monitoring of fishing activity and vessel ownership, public access to information, and stronger enforcement of existing regulations can help curb illegal and destructive fishing, provide data to rebuild fish populations, and support advocacy by small-scale fishers and coastal communities.

The conference also comes as Oceana expands its campaigns to Africa following the opening of its new office in Ghana earlier this year, strengthening the organization’s work to protect marine ecosystems, rebuild local fisheries, and ensure local fish support local communities.

“Oceans are a vital source of food, jobs, and economic security for millions of people across Africa,” said Sonia Kwami, Oceana’s Vice President in Ghana. “As leaders gather in Kenya, there is a real opportunity to advance practical solutions that protect marine ecosystems, rebuild fish populations, and ensure coastal communities and small-scale fishers can continue to thrive. After all, small-scale fishers should have priority access to fish in their own waters.”

Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. Oceana is rebuilding abundant and biodiverse oceans by winning science-based policies in countries that control one-quarter of the world’s wild fish catch. With more than 350 victories that stop overfishing, habitat destruction, oil and plastic pollution, and the killing of threatened species like turtles, whales, and sharks, Oceana’s campaigns are delivering results. A restored ocean means that 1 billion people can enjoy a healthy seafood meal every day, forever. Together, we can save the oceans and help feed the world. Visit Oceana.org to learn more.

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HOFA Gallery Presents Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime by Maja Petrić opening during SXSW London 2026

LONDON, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HOFA Gallery is pleased to present Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, a new exhibition by Maja Petrić opening during SXSW London 2026. At a moment increasingly shaped by speed, automation, and relentless digital production, the exhibition proposes a different role for technology: a medium for meaning, perception, and felt connection with the natural world.

Developed over more than two decades, Petrić’s practice integrates custom AI, robotics, light, and real-time environmental data to produce works in which ecological change directly generates form. The Glitched Sublime was developed in collaboration with AI scientist and roboticist Mihai Jalobeanu using live Arctic climate data as its primary material.

The work proceeds from a single premise: artwork is not a depiction of environmental change but a physical record of it. In the Arctic, warming is accelerating at twice the global average, destabilising the seasonal conditions on which life in the region depends. Arctic poppies emerge within these conditions, blooming briefly before temperatures exceed the thresholds of their survival. The exhibition tracks this unraveling through lightbox sculptures and pigment works generated by custom robotics and AI responding in real time to live climate data.

At SXSW London 2026

Presented during SXSW London 2026, Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime enters into conversation with the festival’s focus on artificial intelligence, automation, and the future of human experience. In contrast to much of today’s generative AI culture, the exhibition proposes a different trajectory for technology, one centred on ecological memory, embodied experience, and reconnection with the living world.

Alongside the exhibition, Petrić will present Art, Tech & Nature: The Glitched Sublime at SXSW London on Wednesday, 3 June, from 11:40 to 12:10 at Protein Studios (Stage 2). She will also appear on the panel Worldbuilding for the Senses: When Art Meets Experience Meets Brand on Thursday, 4 June, from 16:10 to 16:50 at Truman Brewery (Truman Stage 1).

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Alessandro Gallini
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Movement Secures Licensed Payment Rails Access in the US, Canada and EU, Commits to Stablecoin Settlement and Yield Infrastructure for Emerging Markets

Company’s new trajectory targets cross-border payments, remittances, and dollar savings products across emerging markets

Movement: Where Money Lives

Movement’s ecosystem across four layers: distribution and payments, core rails and infrastructure, yield and asset partners, and internal infrastructure.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Movement, the stablecoin settlement and yield layer for emerging markets, has secured access to licensed payment rails across the United States, Canada and European Union. The company is committing its full focus to cross-border payments, remittances, and dollar savings products for the markets that the traditional financial system has overlooked.

Remittance flows to low and middle-income countries reached an estimated $685 billion in 2024, according to the World Bank. Yet cross-border payments remain sluggish, labored, and dependent on legacy banking infrastructure. Senders still pay an average of 6.36% per transaction globally, while settlement delays and limited banking access continue to impact consumers and businesses across key remittance corridors.

“Billions of individuals globally are financially disenfranchised and underserved,” said Torab Torabi, CEO of Movement. “In many markets, moving money across borders is still too slow, too expensive, and too inaccessible. Our mission is to marry licensed payment rails with onchain settlement to modernize financial services globally, particularly in emerging markets.”

As part of the business transition, the Movement Network Foundation repurchased approximately 19% of tokens previously allocated to investors, equivalent to 4.2% of total supply, demonstrating its commitment to tokenholders and the long-term mission.

Movement has built a technical framework designed to reduce settlement times and lower the cost of moving money across borders. Through Movement’s infrastructure and its licensed-partner network, builders can deploy cross-border payment products, dollar-denominated savings accounts, and real-world-asset yield offerings without relying on correspondent banking systems or pre-funded settlement accounts. This is designed to support compliant financial products at scale for fintech and neobank partners operating across emerging markets.

Several partners are already building on the Movement Network today:

  • KAST: More than 18,000 verified users have joined through Movement-powered products across more than 160 countries.
  • Circle / USDCx: USDCx launched as a natively issued stablecoin on the Movement Network, backed 1:1 by native USDC and designed to support payments, treasury, and savings products built by partners.
  • Avant Protocol: Avant selected the Movement Network to support yield and treasury products, including periods of elevated redemption activity earlier this year.
  • Sorted Wallet: Movement Network Foundation participated in Sorted Wallet’s $4.4M seed round alongside Tether and Gnosis, backing a non-custodial crypto wallet built for feature phones with 500,000+ downloads across 160 countries and active users in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Pakistan.
  • Yuzu Money: Yuzu Money will serve as a curator on the Movement Network’s Canopy savings platform, delivering conservative USD yield through T-bills and AAA CLOs for neobank and fintech partners.
  • Oro: Oro, an onchain gold tokenization platform, is integrating with the Movement Network as its first cross-chain vault, bringing yield-generating gold vaults and physical redemption infrastructure to Movement’s emerging markets partners.
  • Zoth: Movement has invested in Zoth, integrating its RWA yield infrastructure natively on the Movement Network to give partners access to institutional-grade, dollar-denominated yield products backed by investment-grade assets.

Movement’s infrastructure stack in conjunction with the Movement Network includes payments, treasury, savings, and liquidity products intended to give partners a single integration layer for financial services across emerging markets. The company, along with the Movement Network Foundation is also evaluating treasury and capital allocation initiatives, including additional token repurchase programs, as part of a long-term growth strategy.

For more information on Movement, please visit: MovementNetwork.xyz

About Movement and the Movement Network

Reference to Movement above is to Move Ind. Inc., the core contributor to the Movement Network. The Movement Network is a global settlement and yield layer for stablecoins, built on Move, the programming language Meta developed for financial applications. Move was designed from the ground up to secure financial assets, making it purpose-built for moving real money across borders at scale.

Neobanks, fintechs, and payment platforms build with Movement to settle cross-border transactions instantly. Traditional remittance rails require billions in pre-funded float and take two to five days to clear. Movement reduces that capital overhead and the traditional correspondent bank chain bottlenecks, cutting costs and giving financial institutions infrastructure they can trust.

Movement: Where Money Lives. To learn more, visit MovementNetwork.xyz follow @Movement_xyz on X and connect with Movement on LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking Statements and Acknowledgements

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding Movement’s business strategy, partnerships, regulatory approvals, token-related actions, and future operations. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including regulatory approval timelines, partner performance, market conditions, token-market dynamics, and other factors. Movement does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law. References to ecosystem partners reflect publicly available information and do not constitute endorsements by those partners except where expressly noted. References in this release to “licensed payment rails” refer to access provided through commercial partnerships with licensed money transmitters and e-money institutions in their respective jurisdictions, subject to those partners’ program terms and underwriting. Neither Movement nor the Movement Network Foundation is itself licensed as a money transmitter, e-money institution, depository institution, bank, broker-dealer, investment adviser, or investment company. Products and services referenced in this release are operated by independent third parties subject to those parties’ own terms, eligibility criteria, and jurisdictional availability. This release is informational only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any digital asset, security, financial instrument, investment product, yield-bearing product, or stablecoin, or financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. This release is not directed at, and is not intended for distribution to, persons in jurisdictions where its publication would be unlawful.

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AI Is Shipping Faster Than Customers Can Adopt It, New Research Finds

Instruqt’s 2026 State of Developer Adoption Report, fielded by SlashData, finds hands-on labs make developers approximately 50% more likely to reach productivity within two months.

AMSTERDAM, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Instruqt, the hands-on adoption platform used by software companies to onboard developers, customers, and prospects, today released its annual report, The State of Developer Adoption – the first independent benchmark of how marketing, sales, and education teams are responding to the widening gap between the pace of AI feature releases and the pace at which customers can actually adopt them.

The report, fielded by SlashData 2026 across 424 marketing, sales, and developer education practitioners at North American software companies, found that 92% of respondents face at least one significant developer adoption challenge. The most cited causes point to an operational problem, not a product one: misalignment across teams (27%), technology complexity (26%), and the difficulty of keeping content accurate as products ship weekly (25%).

The data points to a significant difference in outcomes among organizations that use hands-on learning experiences. Organizations using hands-on labs were approximately 50% more likely to report developers reaching productivity within two months than those that did not.

“The pace of AI innovation has fundamentally changed how software companies think about adoption,” said Adriaan Knapen, CEO of Instruqt. “Organizations have less time than ever to help customers understand, evaluate, and adopt new capabilities before the next wave of innovation arrives. The companies pulling ahead aren’t the ones shipping more features. They’re the ones who have figured out how to align marketing, sales, and education around a single hands-on experience the customer can actually touch.”

The adoption gap is now an operational gap

The report frames a structural shift in how B2B software companies need to operate. Marketing builds one demo. Sales builds a different one for POCs. Education rebuilds it again for onboarding. Every handoff loses context, every release breaks the content, and every customer starts over. The teams that flatten that motion into a single, reusable, hands-on experience are the ones converting AI investment into AI adoption.

Other notable findings from the report:

  • Community remains the most underutilized adoption lever. Developer community spaces received the highest perceived effectiveness rating of any adoption practice in the survey, with one in three practitioners ranking them in their top three. Yet adoption levels sit at roughly the same level as static video tutorials, suggesting underinvestment in the format that works best.
  • High-impact pre-sales experiences remain underused. Proofs of concept are rated more effective than their adoption levels suggest, pointing to underutilization in pre-sales motions.
  • Different teams define successful hands-on experiences differently. Sales teams prioritize realism in hands-on experiences (39% rank production-like environments as the single most important characteristic), while education teams prioritize real-time guidance and feedback.
  • AI adoption is growing, but confidence is not. Half of practitioners describe their AI use as extensive, yet more than one-third plan to reduce it, citing accuracy and content freshness concerns.

Why this matters for the AI category

For developer-focused software companies, the report suggests that customer adoption is becoming an increasingly important determinant of growth as innovation cycles accelerate. Many of the industry’s fastest-growing software companies have invested heavily in hands-on education, self-paced labs, interactive product experiences, and developer enablement programs as part of broader adoption strategies. The pattern, the report argues, is no longer a “nice to have” enablement motion. It is the growth motion.

Earlier this month, Google Cloud Security selected Instruqt to launch its Agentic SOC experience at Google Cloud Next 2026, training 50 practitioners in a single workshop with a dedicated Vertex AI environment per participant.

“On the AI front, Instruqt is fantastic because it allows us to spin up a dedicated Vertex environment per participant,” said Keith Manville, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Security. “That changes what’s possible in a workshop.”

The State of Developer Adoption report, including methodology and respondent demographics, is available today at instruqt.com/ai-adoption. The full methodology, including the SlashData survey instrument and respondent breakdown, is published with the report.

About Instruqt

Instruqt is the hands-on adoption platform that B2B software companies use to turn complex products into experiences customers can actually use. Marketing teams use Instruqt to drive qualified leads through interactive product experiences. Sales teams use it to run higher-quality demos and POCs without the setup tax. Education teams use it to scale onboarding and certification with real environments instead of slideware. Customers include Google Cloud, MongoDB, Elastic, HashiCorp, Red Hat, and Puppet. Learn more at instruqt.com.

About SlashData

SlashData is the leading analyst firm in the developer economy, tracking developer trends across mobile, desktop, IoT, cloud, web, AR/VR, machine learning, and games. The firm’s research is based on surveys of more than 40,000 developers in 165+ countries annually.

Tyler Crumpler
VP of Marketing
Instruqt
(919) 417-2146
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