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24 May 2021 | 14:15 (UTC)
Founded in 1874, Dutch shipyard, De Vries Lentsch, originally commenced operations by constructing wooden rowing boats for the port of Amsterdam in 1878. Following this inauspicious beginning, it progressed to creating small traditional Dutch sailing craft for the home market.
In 1892 the company built the steel power yacht
ex. Brave Mollie. The 26.4-metre vessel was made for the autocratic King Leopold II of Belgium, who became notorious for his mistreatment of the population in the Congo Free State of the time.
Forever still exists, and is in the port of Palma.
Photo: Globe Regal YachtingDe Vries Lentsch continued to build steel and wooden yachts of up to 18-metres in length. As the yachts grew, the company expanded building capacity by setting up another shipyard at Grasweg in Amsterdam. This became known as Amsterdamsche Scheepvaart G. de Vries Lentsch Jr., the Nieuwendam yard was Scheepswerf âHet Fortâ G
Deutsche Bank Signs Global Partnership With Payments Technology Provider Silverflow Date New partnership includes card acquiring & BIN-sponsorship for cloud-based card acceptance solutions
Initial solutions available for corporate banking clients in Germany and payment service providers (PSPs) across Europe and the US will launch in Autumn 2021
Deutsche Bank and Silverflow have announced a global partnership to support the bank’s payments strategy. The partnership will include two new payment services, which are expected to launch in Autumn 2021.
Kilian Thalhammer, Head of Merchant Solutions at Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank, said, “Deutsche Bank is creating a new digital payment ecosystem, working with best-in-breed tech players like Silverflow. With Silverflow’s cloud-native payment technology, we can offer our customers high-end, best-in-class services that set new standards for bank-supported acquiring services and digital payments.”
Paytech Silverflow celebrates €2.6M seed round
Silverflow, a global payment technology company, is announcing a €2.6m seed funding round, led by UK-based seed-stage investor Crane Venture Partners with participation from INKEF Capital and notable angel investors and industry leaders from Pay.On, First Data, Booking.com and Adyen. With this seed round, Silverflow has now raised €3m in total funding.
Silverflow is a payments technology company building a modern and easy-to-use cloud platform for global cards processing with direct access into the card networks. Founded by long-time online payments industry veterans and seasoned startup founders CEO Anne-Willem de Vries (who was focused on card acquiring and processing at Adyen), CBDO Robert Kraal (former Adyen COO and EVP global card acquiring & processing of Adyen) and CTO Paul Buying (founder of acquired translation startup Livewords), Silverflow will launch its card payments processing technology in early 2021.
Global PayTech Ventures (GPT) Invests in Silverflow and Its Revolutionary Payment Processing Platform
MIAMI, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Global PayTech Ventures (GPT) today announced its recent investment in
Silverflow whose cloud-native platform is able to bring speed, innovation and significant cost savings to the payment processing ecosystem.
While large segments of the payments infrastructure have modernized with the advent of the internet, the payment processing side still largely relies on the technology of legacy systems built 25 - 40 years ago, when processing and memory was expensive. Since those legacy systems were designed to preserve processing power by delivering less data, they inherently deny the data-driven needs of 21st century merchants. Silverflow s solution provides a much-needed, state-of-the-art upgrade.
Dutch grower puts solar panels above soft fruit plants
Growing red berries under solar panels: the first to do this is Rini Kusters of Kusters Zachtfruit. The trial solar panel setup that he installed together with GroenLeven last year above the crops will be extended to a full solar source from today. Someone has to take the first step, Rini says.
20 years ago, Rini inherited his father s soft fruit company. My father passed away at a relatively young age. I was faced with a decision: Am I taking over the company or am I going to sell it? I chose to take over the company. I went for it, what did I have to lose? I wanted to grow and innovate with Kusters Zachtfruit. The decision to install solar panels over my red berries after 20 years was, therefore, a fitting choice.”