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Maintaining close relations with customers, sharing knowledge and communicating the brand are three goals that Asseco PST does not lose sight of, even in the midst of a pandemic.

The Asseco Group closed its 2020 accounts with overall sales of €2.68 billion, an increase of 14% from the previous year. Revenues rose in all business sectors, despite the uncertainties of the world market with the ongoing pandemic.

Asseco PST has just acquired a majority stake in the equity of Finantech, a company headquartered in Porto specialized in software solutions for capital markets.

It has now been one year since our lives changed, with the introduction of a word that we practically only knew from dictionaries: pandemic.

Asseco PST recently won contracts for two more challenging projects in the digital sector in Mozambique and Angola.

Angola continues to be a strategic market for Asseco PST, with more than two dozen customers in the country. Relationships with reference partners, such as Dell Technologies, has made it possible to leverage joint efforts to transform banking institutions' technological systems in Angola.

Mozambique is one of Asseco PST's reference markets in Portuguese-speaking Africa.

The year 2021 started with the presence of Asseco PST at another two conferences in an African market. This time, in Cape Verde.

Asseco PST has just added to its video library another product film, where we dynamically and creatively present our offer for the financial sector. This time, the star of the film is the core banking platform Banka, which allows the integrated, complete management of a banking business.

The International Bank of São Tomé and Príncipe (BISTP) was the first Asseco PST client to implement the Banka Operation Pricing Solution. The solution is based on the collection of expenses and commissions, according to different bank account events or operations, in a fully automated process.

At a time when thousands of physical events were cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic, Asseco PST has remained active on several digital platforms by participating in various forums focused on innovation, competitiveness, and technological disruption in the financial sector.

Asseco PST has established a partnership with Asseco SEE (Southern Eastern Europe) to implement a digital channel solution for BNU Timor.

Asseco PST has implemented the first international transfer tracking solution - SWIFT GPI Tracker - in Banco Atlantico Europa, Portugal. The project is based on the advantages of the SWIFT GPI Tracker, which allows banks to track the transfers they issue and receive from end to end.

Asseco PST is developing a solution on PFS Financa and Banka 3G to allow interfacing with the Bloomberg FXGO platform. This development is in line with the decision of the Angolan regulator to also adopt that platform to make its foreign exchange market more efficient.

On June 18 Asseco PST held its first webinar where our approach to implement Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions for the financial sector was presented to more than 100 participants from different client institutions.

Asseco PST has successfully completed its first Blockchain proof of concept. As companies with a technological DNA are being challenged to be at the forefront of digital transformation, this Corda Blockchain development shows our commitment to being at the cutting edge of technological evolution.

The past few weeks have been dominated by global uncertainty over the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But at Asseco PST we remain 100% connected, believing that the challenging moment we're going through will pass and what we do today will determine tomorrow's success.

Asseco PST is monitoring the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost attention and care, both in Portugal and worldwide. We have implemented a set of preventive and contingency measures regarding the worldwide spread of the new Coronavirus.

Helping financial institutions to transform their activity-risk approach from reactive to proactive is one of Asseco PST's challenges. A task that the Risk & Compliance Department will fulfil with the newly-named AXIS and EAGLE suites.

Asseco PST has partnered with Nova University to sponsor the "Entrepreneurship FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology)" course. The initiative, which launches as early as January, is probably the largest technological entrepreneurship university course in Europe.

Asseco PST ended 2019 with another distinction that elevates its island origins. Our company has won the “Best Company with Consolidated Accounts” award at the 30th edition of the “500 Greatest Companies of Madeira”.

Digital disruption in the banking sector was the theme of the 8th Economy and Finance Forum, promoted in Luanda by ABANC - the Angolan Banking Association. The event was attended by the CEO of Asseco PST, Daniel Araújo, and by the head of Data & Analytics, João Gonçalves.

Asseco PST was awarded an international prize by IBS Intelligence for the category CRM for the banking sector and other financial institutions. Our company stood out as a leader in the IBSI Sales League Table 2019, which acts as a sales barometer for providers of technological solutions aimed at the banking sector.

As part of the promotion of the Asseco Academy in Angola, the company organized a presentation session at the Agostinho Neto University, in Luanda. In an auditorium full of students and guests, there was no shortage of praise for the training programme and the role played by the Academy.

Asseco PST has teamed up with the Portuguese Tennis Federation and the Tennis Association of Madeira as a sponsor of the Absolute National Championship, the chief-event of the sport locally. Organised in Funchal, it is the competition with the highest score for the national ranking.

On 22 October, Asseco PST is organizing a conference for Cape-Verdean financial operators on the topic of digital transformation. After Luanda and Maputo, it's now time for Cidade da Praia, on the Island of Santiago, to welcome this event.

In May, following its involvement at two consecutive events, Asseco PST shone in Mozambique. On the 9th, we welcomed our clients at the "Digital Transformation" conference in Maputo. Six days later, we were in full swing at MozTech 2019 - Digital Expo of Mozambique, the country's largest showroom in the ICT area.

Asseco PST was present at ANGOTIC 2019, a large forum and exhibition of information and communication technologies held in Luanda. Several thousand visitors came by this three-day event, which brought together dozens of companies from various technological areas.

In the ongoing evolution of the PFS Portal product, we announced the launch of the PFS 2019 Portal version, which marks an important step in product evolution, providing a set of new business functionalities and techniques.

Asseco Academy awarded the first certificates in Mozambique to the group of trainees who completed their training program this month. In total, the course had 18 candidates, now eligible to enter the job market.

The Angolan Government approved Value-Added Tax (VAT) to enter into force, starting in April 2019.

The RTP 3 programme “Ideias & Companhias” [Ideas & Companies], will present a report on Asseco PST at 3:50 pm next Sunday, the 17th. This report highlights the past, the present and the future of the company following its evolution from its origins 30 years ago in Funchal until the present time.

Asseco Academy, the academy for information technologies training established by Asseco PST, will broaden its activity to Mozambique. The beginning of the first course is planned for April, following the success of the similar project in Angola, in 2018.

More than 150 staff members and leaders of banks and large Angolan corporations gathered last 24th of January in the Financial city, in Luanda, to discuss digital transformation in the banking sector, an event organised by Asseco PST.

Asseco has developed a new system that utilizes advanced prediction analysis mechanisms – Asseco Customer Intelligence (ACI). The solution allows to check what customers are looking for on the Internet and what products and services they are interested in.

Asseco PST was distinguished at the OutSystems 2018 Innovation Awards, in the "Business Efficiency" category. These awards recognise organisations and individuals that, at the international level, use the OutSystems platform to enhance the productivity and proactivity of their technology solutions.

New corporate image marks the full integration of Portuguese-speaking technological company into one of the largest European multinational software companies.

After extending the Development Centre in Funchal, in 2017 and moving to new facilities in Luanda, at the beginning of 2018, it's Lisbon's turn now. The company's new office, located close to Segunda Circular, accommodates more than 200 employees.

The first implementation at BCI of the new sub-module of the Banka3G solution offered by EXICTOS has recently entered the production stage.

EXICTOS established a partnership with the Higher Technical Institute (IST-Instituto Superior Técnico) in the field of artificial intelligence research aiming to test Deep Learning approaches within its offer of products and services.

The Polish city of Krakow was the stage chosen for the 14th edition of the Sales Coordination Meeting of the Asseco Group, an event that combined the exchange of information on the group's offer at a global level with the will to strengthen the ties between the several offices represented.

The Asseco Academy, the training academy created by EXICTOS in Angola, will be starting its second course in July, thus continuing to invest in people development.

Over the last few months, EXICTOS Solidária has intensified its Social Responsibility intervention, by promoting social action initiatives in 3 of the geographic locations where it operates: Mozambique, Angola and Portugal.

As part of a continuous process of technological improvement, aligned with the evolution of the banking sector, customer needs and regulatory requirements, EXICTOS presents the latest application innovations.

On the weekend of March 3 and 4, we gathered nearly three hundred employees in Évora to celebrate three decades of EXICTOS. The chosen anthem was the popular song by Da Vinci, Conquistador but the lyrics were adapted to our reality in the world.

EXICTOS presented this Wednesday (31/01), in Talatona, on the outskirts of Luanda, the Asseco Academy, an academy for high-quality training in information technology.

The first 3G Banka Customer with a High Availability (HA) module has recently gone into production.

EXICTOS prepares the Inauguration of a New Office in Luanda, Angola

The ASSECO GROUP, in its process of international expansion, has just strengthened its confidence in EXICTOS, announcing its integration into the new Holding of the Group, ASSECO INTERNACIONAL (AI)

EXICTOS was represented in this event by two speakers, with the presentation "Cycle of software development".

EXICTOS intends to integrate a growing number of engineers

BNU Timor (CGD Group) is committed to a more secure, effective payment system within reach of a finger.

At the invitation of Exictos and the Angola School of Management, digital banking guru Brett King gave a lecture in Luanda.

EXICTOS was recognized as one of the 500 greatest companies of Madeira

Delegation of Outermost regions visit the EXICTOS facilities in Funchal.

EXICTOS, together with the ASSECO Group, held a workshop focused on Angola's Energy companies.

The President of the Regional Government visits the EXICTOS factory in Funchal

EXICTOS has forged a partnership on two fronts: one with the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI); and a second with the University of Madeira (UMa).

Asseco Group Product Review took place in Madeira