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Business Standard
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
IIBM Institute Brings Globally Recognized Swiss Doctorate to India at affordable prices -- Now Enrolling for 2025
India PR Distribution New Delhi [India], May 19: In a bold move to make top-tier global education accessible to Indian professionals, IIBM Institute of Business Management announces the launch of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from the Swiss International Management Academy, Switzerland -- now available in India at 50% lower fees than similar Swiss programs. Swiss International Management Academy, Switzerland is a prestigious member of AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) -- the same global network that includes Harvard, Stanford, and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). AACSB membership signifies academic excellence and global credibility, giving Indian learners the opportunity to earn a doctorate that commands respect worldwide. Delivered 100% online, the SIMA DBA is designed for senior professionals, entrepreneurs, consultants, and CXOs who want to enhance their leadership skills, conduct practical business research, and earn the legally recognized "Dr." title from a respected Swiss institution -- without taking a career break. "I never imagined I could afford a Swiss doctorate. SIMA's DBA changed my career trajectory and personal brand -- and I now proudly use the 'Dr.' title," says Dr. Ravi Kumar, a recent graduate and business strategist from Mumbai. SIMA is currently active in over 50 countries, with a growing alumni network across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, with India as a key growth region. Program features include: * Swiss-issued Private Doctorate degree with international acceptance * Affordable fees from Rs3.5 to Rs5.5 lakhs (vs. Rs7-12 lakhs typically charged by other Swiss institutes) * AACSB Membership for institutional trust and credibility * No entrance exams, flexible schedules, and personalized academic mentorship * Recognition for professional and research excellence Graduates of this program have gone on to hold leadership roles, publish research, and gain global visibility -- many proudly using "Dr." as a personal and professional milestone. Admissions Now Open - Limited Seats for 2025 Cohort This is a one-time opportunity for Indian professionals to earn a Swiss DBA with global recognition, at a price point designed for the Indian market.
Cision Canada
16-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
SIMA supports Quebec bill to enhance regulatory efficiency and investor protection Français
MONTREAL, May 16, 2025 /CNW/ - The Securities and Investment Management Association (SIMA) has responded to the Quebec government's consultation on Bill 92, an act to amend provisions with respect to the financial sector. SIMA supports the proposed merger of the Chambre de la sécurité financière (CSF) and the Chambre de l'assurance de dommages (ChAD) to form the new Chambre de l'assurance. SIMA also recommends transferring the oversight of mutual fund representatives from the CSF to the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), aiming to harmonize regulation and improve investor protection across Quebec. "Bill 92 represents a significant step forward in modernizing Quebec's financial sector regulation framework," says Marie Brault, chair of the Quebec board of governors, SIMA. "Aligning mutual fund representative oversight with CIRO will foster a more efficient, consistent, and investor-focused regulatory environment. This will better protect investors and reduce regulatory burden on industry participants, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth." In its submission, SIMA highlights that CIRO, established in January 2023 through the merger of IIROC and MFDA, is the recognized self-regulatory organization (SRO) with deep expertise in securities regulation. CIRO's regional presence in Quebec, including French-language services and a dedicated regional council, positions it as the ideal entity to oversee mutual fund and investment dealer representatives, creating a unified regulatory framework. Key benefits of Bill 92 Enhanced ethical oversight: CIRO's integrated approach involves both dealers and representatives in investigations, enabling proactive prevention and correction of misconduct, which the current dual-oversight model lacks. Consistent continuing education: CIRO's harmonized continuing education model for mutual fund and investment dealer representatives will reduce administrative burden and ensure consistent skill standards. Efficient supervision: Consolidating oversight under CIRO will eliminate potential duplicate fees for mutual fund representatives in Quebec, reducing costs and administrative complexity. SIMA also supports the creation of the Chambre de l'assurance to consolidate insurance-related regulatory functions and recommends information-sharing between the new Chambre and CIRO to ensure comprehensive supervision of representatives operating in both securities and insurance and financial planning sectors. About SIMA The Securities and Investment Management Association empowers Canada's investment industry. The association, formerly The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC), is the leading voice for the securities and investment management industry, which oversees approximately $4 trillion in assets for over 20 million investors and the Canadian capital markets. Our members—including investment fund managers, investment and mutual fund dealers, capital markets participants, and professional service providers—are committed to creating a resilient, innovative investment sector that fuels long-term economic growth and creates opportunities for all Canadians.
Canada Standard
14-05-2025
- Business
- Canada Standard
Tribunal Initiates Inquiry-Steel Strapping from China, Trkiye, South Korea, and Vietnam
Ottawa, Ontario, May 13, 2025-The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into a complaint by JEM Strapping Systems Inc., of Brantford, Ontario, that they have suffered injury as a result of the dumping of steel strapping from the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Trkiye, the Republic of Korea, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the subsidizing of steel strapping originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China. The Tribunal's inquiry is conducted pursuant to the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) as a result of the initiation of dumping and subsidizing investigations by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). On July 10, 2025, the Tribunal will determine whether there is a reasonable indication that the alleged dumping and subsidizing have caused injury or retardation, or are threatening to cause injury, as these words are defined in SIMA. If so, the CBSA will continue its investigations and, by August 8, 2025, will make preliminary determinations. If these preliminary determinations indicate that there has been dumping or subsidizing, the CBSA will then continue its investigations and, concurrently, the Tribunal will initiate a final injury inquiry. The Tribunal is an independent quasi-judicial body that reports to Parliament through the Minister of Finance. It hears cases on dumped and subsidized imports, safeguard complaints, complaints about federal government procurement and appeals of customs and excise tax rulings. When requested by the federal government, the Tribunal also provides advice on other economic, trade and tariff matters. Any interested person, association or government that wishes to participate in the Tribunal's inquiry may do so by filing a Form I - Notice of Participation.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The CBSA launches investigations into the alleged dumping of steel strapping from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam and its subsidization by China
OTTAWA, ON, May 12, 2025 /CNW/ - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced today that it is initiating investigations to determine whether steel strapping originating in or exported from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam is being sold at unfair prices in Canada and whether steel strapping originating in or exported from China is being subsidized. These practices can harm Canadian industries by undercutting Canadian prices, which undermines fair competition. The CBSA is investigating because of a complaint filed by JEM Strapping Systems Inc. (JEM). JEM alleges that as a result of an increase in the volume of the dumped and subsidized imports, they have suffered material injury in the form of lost market share, price undercutting, price depression, lost sales, reduced net income and profitability, and reduced employment. The CBSA and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) both play a role in the investigations. The CITT will begin a preliminary inquiry to determine whether the imports are harming Canadian producers and will issue a decision by July 11, 2025. Concurrently, the CBSA will investigate whether the imports are being sold in Canada at unfair prices and/or are being subsidized, and will make a preliminary decision by August 11, 2025. Currently, there are 158 special import measures in force in Canada, covering a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. These measures have directly helped to protect approximately 31,000 Canadian jobs and $11.6 billion in Canadian production. Quick facts Canada's trade remedy system is designed to ensure that imported goods are priced fairly relative to domestic products. To counteract unfair trade practices, the CBSA has the authority under the Special Import Measures Act to initiate investigations if a complaint is properly documented and impose trade remedy measures when there is evidence that dumping or subsidizing is causing or threatens to cause injury to Canadian producers. The subject goods are steel strapping originating in or exported from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam. For more product information, please refer to the CBSA's Anti-dumping and countervailing webpage. The only Canadian producer of steel strapping is JEM Strapping Systems Inc. (Brantford, ON). The Canadian market of imports for steel strapping has been estimated to be approximately $24 million annually. A statement of reasons, with additional details about the investigations, will be available on the CBSA's website within 15 days from the date the investigations are launched. Associated links Special Import Measures Act (SIMA) investigative process and timeframes Overview of Canada's anti-dumping and countervailing investigative processes Anti-dumping and Countervailing Canadian International Trade Tribunal Follow the CBSA on X (@CanBorder), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. SOURCE Canada Border Services Agency View original content: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Forbes
01-05-2025
- Forbes
AI Agents Playing Video Games Will Transform Future Robots
AI agents trained in video game environments are demonstrating a remarkable ability to transfer ... More skills to new challenges, potentially revolutionizing how we build real-world robots. Video games have played an important role in the development of AI. Many early demonstrations of machine learning involved teaching computers to play games. Eventually, Google Deepmind's mastery of the game Starcraft 2 was taken as proof that machines could now compete with us across many fields in which we were previously undisputed champions. Now, games are being used as a testbed for exploring some of the most exciting new areas in AI, including autonomous agents, real-world robots and perhaps even the quest for AGI. At this year's Game Developer's Conference, Google's DeepMind AI division demonstrated its research into what it calls Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agents (SIMA). The idea is to show that machines can navigate and learn inside the 3D worlds of video game environments. They can then use what they've learned to navigate entirely different worlds and tasks, all with their own rules, using whatever tools are available to them to solve problems. It might sound like child's play, but this research could dramatically impact the development of the agentic AI we'll use in our work and personal lives. So let's take a look at what it could mean, and whether it could even solve the ultimate AI challenge of creating machines capable of adapting to any situation, much like humans can. Video games provide a great environment for training AI because the variety of tasks and challenges is almost infinite. Importantly, the player usually solves these challenges using a standard set of tools, all accessed via the game controller. This corresponds well with the way AI agents tackle problems by choosing which tools to use from a pre-defined selection. Game worlds also provide safe, observable and scalable environments where the effects of subtle changes to variables or behavior can be explored at little real-world cost. DeepMind's SIMAs were trained across nine different video game environments, taken from popular games including No Man's Sky, Valheim and Goat Simulator. The agents were given the ability to interact and control the games using natural language commands like 'pick up the key' or 'move to the blue building.' Among the standout findings, the research showed that the agents are highly effective at transferable learning—taking what they learn in one game and using it to get better at another. This was backed up by observations that agents trained to play eight of the nine games performed better at the one game they were untrained on than specialized agents solely trained on the one game. This dynamic learning ability will be critical in a world where agents are working alongside us, helping us explore, interpret and understand messy real-world problems and situations. But what about looking a little further ahead, to a time when it's commonplace for robots to help us out with physical tasks as well as digital ones? The development of real-world robots that carry out physical tasks has accelerated in the last decade, hand-in-hand with the evolution of AI. However, they are still generally only used by large businesses due to the high cost of training them for specialist roles. Using virtual and video game environments could dramatically lower this cost. The theory is that transferable learning will enable physical robots to use their hands, arms or whatever tools they have to tackle many physical challenges, even if they haven't come across them before. For example, a robot that effectively learns how to use its hands to work in a warehouse might also learn how to use them to build a house. Before it released ChatGPT, OpenAI demonstrated research in this field. Dactyl is a robotic hand, trained in virtual simulated environments, that learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube. This was one of the first demonstrations of the potential of transferring skills learned in virtual environments to complex physical-world tasks. More recently, Nvidia has developed its Isaac platform expressly for the purpose of training robots to 'learn to learn' how to carry out real-world tasks inside virtual environments. Today, physical AI-assisted robots are put to work in warehouse roles, agriculture, healthcare, deliveries, and many other jobs. In most cases, however, these robots are still doing tasks they were specifically trained for—at enormous expense by companies with very deep pockets. But new models of 'affordable' robots are on the horizon. Tesla plans to manufacture thousands of its Optimus robots this year and assign many of them to work in its factories. And Chinese robotics developer Unitree recently unveiled a $16,000 humanoid robot that can turn its hand to many tasks. With the price of robots falling and their AI brains becoming more powerful by the day, walking, talking humanoid robots could be stepping out of science fiction into everyday reality sooner than we think. Almost 30 years ago, machines scored their first big win over humans by defeating Gary Kasparov at Chess. Few would have predicted then that a computer would exist that could beat world champions not just at one game, but at any game. This ability to 'generalize' information by taking knowledge from one task and using it to solve an entirely different one is traditionally exclusive to humans, but that could be changing. All of this will be hugely interesting to those chasing the holy grail of AI development, artificial general intelligence (AGI). Evidence that agents like DeepMind's SIMAs are able to transfer learning from one virtual game environment to another suggests they may be developing some of the qualities needed for AGI. It demonstrates that they are progressively building competencies that can be applied to solving future problems. Google, along with OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, have all stated that developing AGI is their eventual goal, and it's clearly the logical endpoint of the current focus on agentic intelligence. With video games, could another part of the puzzle be in place?
