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AXA Global Business Services Embarks on a New Era of Transformation as it Celebrates 30 Years in India

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AXA GBS marks three decades in India, expanding across Bangalore, Pune, UK, and Morocco. It serves over 35 AXA entities in 14 countries, delivering innovation, operational excellence and high customer satisfaction, and has an employee footprint of over 4,000 employees globally.AXA GBS is transitioning from traditional transactional work to a high-value, output-based model, further demonstrated by its new state-of-the-art facility in Pune, focusing on technology, automation, data analytics and AI.AXA GBS has achieved a higher customer satisfaction rate, and with a focus on upskilling, is investing heavily in role-based learning academies, an 88% employee engagement score and 90% retention rate, reflecting a commitment to people-centric growth and global collaboration.

BENGALURU, India and PUNE, India, Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AXA Global Business Services (AXA GBS), a part of the AXA Group, proudly celebrates its 30 years of operations in India. The occasion was marked by a celebratory townhall in both Pune and Bangalore, with the AXA GBS Executive Committee members joining CEO, Michele Rochefort at the event.

With a global employee footprint of over 4,000 professionals across Bangalore, Pune, UK, and Morocco, AXA GBS continues to expand its presence while driving innovation, employee experience, operational excellence and strong customer satisfaction.

AXA GBS currently co-partners with over 35 AXA entities across 14 countries. It blends expertise in technology services such as application development & maintenance, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation, along with traditional business process services including language support to deliver tangible value across AXA’s global ecosystem. This milestone also marks a significant transition for AXA GBS to being a trusted advisor to AXA entities driven by a high-value, output-based operating model.

“At AXA GBS, we love to dare. We are looking within first, cannibalizing our existing business model through a bold program of intelligent automation and digitalization. We are looking to enhance our traditional operational services with a powerful combination of automation and technology, enhancing the value for AXA entities globally. With a strategic focus on driving organic growth and scaling existing services, we are confident of providing flexibility to AXA entities, unlocking collective value for AXA Group. We are investing heavily in upskilling our employees, empowering them to build their capabilities to complement their wealth of domain expertise. We are scaling operational excellence by investing in tools, platforms, and integrated systems to support AXA entities seamlessly, to be consistently impactful advisors. As an integral part of the AXA Group, AXA GBS has extensive domain knowledge and we are well placed to own, drive and deliver results for our various global entities. Our focus also remains on retaining intellectual property and value within AXA. I am confident that our strategic transformation will yield great results for our Entities, Processes, and People. 30 years combined with AXA Group’s 40th year anniversary in April is a testament to our long-standing legacies entwining to deliver value for the Group,” said Michele Rochefort, Chief Executive Officer, AXA Global Business Services.

AXA GBS’s dedication to operational excellence is reflected in its increased customer satisfaction rate and net promoter score in the past one year. AXA GBS has demonstrated commitment and expertise in forging strong and trusted relationships with AXA’s global teams.

“With a focus on exceptional customer satisfaction, we have launched an integrated service catalogue, ensuring AXA entities have a holistic view of what we can do for them. With a smooth customer relationship management platform at the back-end, we are investing more time to co-create with our entities to open doors of innovation and excellence,” said Timothy Auger, Chief Customer & Transition Officer, AXA Global Business Services.

A newly opened, state-of-the-art facility in Pune underscores AXA GBS’s commitment to fostering a great place to work poised to deliver enhanced service delivery and cutting-edge innovation, while promoting a collaborative, inclusive workspace. Furthermore, as a skills-based organization, it fosters a high-performing and engaged workforce with an 88% employee engagement score and an impressive 90% retention rate, achieved through robust role-based learning academies.

“Our people are our exceptional talent engine – our secret sauce! Their dedication and talent drive our success and enable us to be consistently impactful advisors to AXA entities. We are committed to making AXA GBS a “Skills-First” organization, and ensuring every employee has a career path aligned to their personal growth and career ambitions – where they can truly own their career,” said Isabelle Isnard, Chief People and Communications Officer, AXA Global Business Services.

“Last year alone, AXA GBS had over 67% of our employees volunteer for over 42 corporate social responsibility programs across the country. Our commitment to communities around us for inclusive protection and environment will continue; but we are also investing in ensuring it is a promise made by our people – 5% of goals in our employee performance is dedicated to community volunteering work; and we are on the path to combining this dedicated time to be skills-based volunteering to ensure there is more purpose to work and a flavor for learning. This is a particularly special achievement for us – our goals in advancing in the fields of automation, data analytics, and AI, along with other technologies, is beautifully balanced with and grounded in our drive to do good for our people, communities, and environment. And these numbers validate that,” said Rahul Sinha, Chief Data Analytics and AI Officer & Executive Sponsor – CSR at AXA Global Business Services.

As AXA GBS looks ahead to its new chapter, it remains steadfast in pushing boundaries and embracing emerging technologies to drive AXA’s global ambitions. Harnessing its talented workforce and evolving service offerings, it stands poised to shape the future of insurance and beyond, setting new benchmarks for innovation, collaboration and measurable value creation.

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ABOUT AXA GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES

AXA Global Business Services (AXA GBS) is a part of the AXA Group, a leading multinational insurance firm headquartered in Paris, France. Located in India, Morocco, and UK with more than 4000 employees, the organization provides essential business support services across various functions such as finance, human resources, IT, and procurement to AXA entities worldwide. As part of AXA’s commitment to tech-driven innovation, AXA GBS plays a pivotal role in fostering cutting-edge technological solutions and driving digital transformation across the organization.

ABOUT THE AXA GROUP

The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 147,000 employees serving 94 million clients in 50 countries. In 2023, IFRS17 revenues amounted to Euro 102.7 billion and IFRS17 underlying earnings to Euro 7.6 billion. AXA had Euro 946 billion in assets under management, including assets managed on behalf of third parties, as of December 31, 2023.

The AXA ordinary share is listed on compartment A of Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol CS (ISN FR 0000120628 – Bloomberg: CS FP – Reuters: AXAF.PA). AXA’s American Depository Share is also quoted on the OTC QX platform under the ticker symbol AXAHY.

The AXA Group is included in the main international SRI indexes, such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and FTSE4GOOD. It is a founding member of the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance and a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

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eSign.AI Named Sole Electronic Signature Technology Provider for Hong Kong Government’s CorpID Project, Building the Foundation for Digital Signing Infrastructure in Hong Kong

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HONG KONG, May 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As Hong Kong’s Digital Corporate Identity Platform (CorpID) counts down to its phased launch, eSign.AI has been appointed as the sole electronic signature vendor in the project, responsible for delivering core digital signing capabilities including digital signatures, certificate management, and signature verification services. CorpID is led by Nexify, a seasoned government systems integrator, as the prime contractor. The platform is expected to launch in phases starting late 2026, with multiple CorpID-based e-government services going live in mid-2027.

CorpID: Government-Grade Digital Identity Infrastructure for Hong Kong Enterprises

The Digital Corporate Identity Platform (CorpID) is an enterprise-level digital services platform launched by the Hong Kong SAR Government, developed under the oversight of the Digital Policy Office (DPO). It is designed to serve as the business equivalent of “iAM Smart,” providing a unified digital identity foundation for Hong Kong enterprises. CorpID’s core mission is to build an integrated digital government infrastructure — offering unified identity authentication, digital signing, form pre-filling, and e-licence storage — replacing paper-heavy, cumbersome traditional processes and enabling smart city development through seamless data connectivity.

The platform is open to companies incorporated under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) and businesses registered under the Business Registration Ordinance (Cap. 310), including sole proprietorships and partnerships. The DPO requires all enterprise-related e-government services to support CorpID within 18 months of launch, and will continue expanding ecosystem coverage through sandbox initiatives, cross-industry identity standard interoperability, and fully online registration processes.

eSign.AI: The Digital Signing Engine Behind CorpID

eSign.AI is an AI-native electronic signature and contract automation platform built for enterprises worldwide, offering a complete signing framework from simple electronic signatures to the highest-level compliant digital signatures — meeting diverse regulatory requirements across industries and jurisdictions.

On the identity verification front, eSign.AI has completed integration with iAM Smart, enabling individual identity verification through Hong Kong’s citizen digital identity system, and providing legally valid digital certificate services for both enterprises and individuals.

Looking ahead, the eSign.AI SaaS platform will be deeply integrated with CorpID, providing enterprise and individual identity verification for Hong Kong businesses, and supporting both electronic and digital signing that complies with Hong Kong’s Electronic Transactions Ordinance — connecting the full digital contracting lifecycle for government and enterprise alike.

Getting Ahead of the AI Era: From eSignGlobal to eSign.AI

The electronic signature industry is undergoing a structural shift from “tooling” to “intelligence.” Market data underscores this acceleration: the AI-powered contract analysis tools market has grown from USD 3.32 billion in 2025 to USD 4.3 billion in 2026, at a CAGR of 29.6%. Signing is just one node in the contract lifecycle — document generation, workflow orchestration, compliance tracking, and post-execution management are all being transformed by AI, and the industry window is closing fast.

In April 2026, the company officially rebranded from eSignGlobal to eSign.AI, completing its strategic transformation from an e-signature tool provider to an AI-native contract automation platform. As the company’s spokesperson noted, this rebrand is not cosmetic — it is an acknowledgment of where the product actually is. Customers were already using eSign.AI to automate workflows that go far beyond the signature itself.

eSign Automation Skill was launched alongside the rebrand — an AI-powered signing automation framework for enterprise workflows that enables complete contract signing through natural language interaction, with no manual intervention required. Whether it is single-party approval, multi-party sequential signing, or large-scale parallel execution, an AI Agent can orchestrate the entire workflow in a single call. All signature initiations and status queries return structured JSON outputs, directly parseable by leading large language models and intelligent workflow systems.

eSign Automation is now available in the OpenClaw ecosystem and supports integration via Claude MCP, ChatGPT, and other leading AI platforms.

By combining AI automation capabilities with CorpID’s government-grade digital identity infrastructure, eSign.AI delivers a complete solution for Hong Kong enterprises — from identity verification to intelligent signing to full workflow automation.

About eSign.AI

eSign.AI (formerly eSignGlobal) is an AI-native electronic signature and contract automation platform built for enterprises worldwide. The platform serves over 100 countries and regions, covering core industries including financial services, manufacturing, real estate, human resources, and healthcare — with 1,500+ scenario applications and 3,000+ ecosystem partners. eSign.AI holds ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 27018 certifications and supports major regulatory frameworks including the U.S. ESIGN Act / UETA, EU eIDAS, HIPAA, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11. Infrastructure is anchored by independent data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Frankfurt, Germany.

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The 9th AskGamblers Awards Finalists Announced as Voting Starts

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The highly anticipated 9th AskGamblers Awards has officially moved into the voting phase. Following a rigorous selection process, the finalists across 5 premier categories have been revealed: Best Casino, Best New Casino, Best New Slot, Best Sportsbook, Best Provider. Players are invited to cast their votes until 11 June.

BELGRADE, Serbia, May 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The voting stage of the 9th annual AskGamblers Awards has officially begun. The list of finalists is announced, and the first votes are already coming in. 

Players will have a chance to vote for their favourites until 11 June, when the winners will be announced at the gala ceremony in Belgrade. There’s a total of 5 categories where popular votes are taken into consideration:

Best CasinoBest New CasinoBest SportsbookBest New SlotBest Game Provider

There aren’t any big changes to the voting process compared to last year. The votes from the prominent members of AskGamblers Forum will be counted in as well, while some award winners will be announced directly by the AskGamblers teams. 

These include: Best Crypto Casino, Best Partner, and Best Manager categories, while the AskGamblers Superstar Award is expected to be handed to the operator that illustrates the brand values best.

Dijana Radunović, General Manager at AskGamblers, is excited for voting to start: “We’re seeing some familiar contestants, but there are a lot of new names, so it will be exciting to see who comes up on top.”

“We invite players to vote for their favourites! This is a chance for you to speak your mind and support operators and games that shape this industry,” Radunović added.

Before the AskGamblers Awards Ceremony that takes place on 11 June, Charity Night is scheduled for 10 June.

About AskGamblers

AskGamblers.com strives to provide current, objective, and accurate information and guide its users towards a safe gaming experience. The way we deliver our services, from the online casino, sportsbook, slot, and bonus reviews to our trusted Complaint Service, is best described by our motto: ‘Get the truth. Then play.’

For more information about AskGamblers and AskGamblers Awards, please contact dijana.radunovic@g2m.com.

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SUNMI Wins 2026 Red Dot Design Awards with Five Products, Leading Global Commercial Industrial Design

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SINGAPORE, May 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The winners of the 2026 German Red Dot Design Award were officially announced. Five of SUNMI Technology’s flagship products won awards: the CPad Business Tablet, CPad PAY, FLEX 3 Interactive Display, the V3 handheld POS Terminal and L3 Industrial PDA. These products stood out with three core design concepts: integration, versatility and human-centricity.

Known as “The Oscars” of global industrial design, the Red Dot Award has strict evaluation criteria covering aesthetics, ergonomics, scenario adaptability and sustainability. SUNMI adheres to original commercial scenario customization, rejecting crudely modified consumer devices. All winning products are originally developed for real commercial scenarios such as cash register, food delivery, industrial inspection and store operations, covering the entire commercial track with high scenario adaptability. Meanwhile, it practices ESG concepts, adopting eco-friendly materials and modular structures to extend equipment service life, reduce consumable consumption, and implement low-carbon and long-term design, which perfectly meets the Red Dot’s sustainability evaluation criteria.

Simplify Complexity: With highly integrated design, SUNMI eliminates the “patchwork feeling” of cluttered devices and tangled cables in traditional commercial scenarios, streamlining store operations and saving space.All-in-One Versatility: Beyond a single tool function, SUNMI’s products achieve flexible transformation through modular and multi-form designs to proactively adapt to changing business needs. The CPad series with modular accessories and FLEX 3’s Lego-style modular design enable multi-scenario application and long-term reuse.Human-Centric Design: Every detail is human-oriented, focusing on real pain points to enhance scenario experience. The L3 Industrial PDA reduces high-frequency work fatigue through scientific weight distribution; the V3 Smart POS Terminal balances large-screen visibility and grip comfort; CPad PAY integrates full-link functions to simplify workflows.

These honors stem from SUNMI’s long-term commitment to a sustainable society, original commercial R&D and ESG. In the future, SUNMI will uphold its core concepts, expand the boundaries of commercial industrial design, and empower global businesses with user-oriented, eco-friendly and high-value products.

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