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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are a great way to grow your business without having to wait years for your marketing and sales strategy to pay off. When you need immediate growth for your business, this can be the best option for you that provides the instant result. The primary goal of a company interested in a merger or acquisition is to secure an opportunity that will either achieve the objective of growth or provide an area of expansion that will add to the product/service line in a market that is currently not served by the company. The motivation behind this pursuit is that the resulting combination of products, key people, and existing pipeline will allow the business to operate in new markets and offer new options to their existing market.

These and other topics MS 16 Group team discussed during the M&A summer conference in July this year.

On the May 20th 2019 MS 16 Group celebrated the partnership with IntRiga at the museum of history in Riga. Together we seek to make Riga more attractive and open for talented musicians from regions and abroad. Together we share a vision of Riga becoming a major hub for cultural tourism by investing in infrastructure that creates the opportunity for the talent and makes the cultural events, such as hosted on the May 20th 2019, more accessible to the general public.

MS 16 enters into a strategic partnership with a Portuguese investment company to further develop information technology tools with the underlying goal to prepare for the revolution of the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware (such as sensors), these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

The IoT has evolved due to the convergence of multiple technologies, real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems. Traditional fields of embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, control systems, automation (including home and building automation), and others all contribute to enabling the Internet of Things. In the consumer market, IoT technology is most synonymous with products pertaining to the concept of the “smart home”, covering devices and appliances (such as lighting fixtures, thermostats, home security systems and cameras, and other home appliances) that support one or more common ecosystems, and can be controlled via devices associated with that ecosystem, such as smartphones and smart speakers.

MS 16 partners with P2P Conference 2019 in Riga. With the help of MS 16 team, industry specialist and other interests will be able to learn about the shared economy, make new contacts and expand the total body of knowledge in the field.

The sharing economy, also known as the access economy, peer-to-peer (P2P) economy, or collaborative economy is a mode of consumption whereby goods and services are not owned by a single user, but rather only temporarily accessed by members of a network and underutilized assets are shared, either for free or for a fee. It includes sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities. Other examples include: exchanging, collective purchasing, shared ownership, shared value, borrowing, and subscription-based models. It is based on the idea that having access to a good or service can be preferable to having ownership of such good or service and that there are benefits to collaboration in ownership.

The emergence of ‘smart court’ technology represents an exciting and potentially transformational development for the sport of tennis. Therefore MS 16 installs 2 new smart tennis systems within Enri Tennis courts in Riga.

Currently, Enri Courts are equipped with two systems:

1. Mojjo – French-based tennis technology company, and
2. Wingfield – German-based tennis technology company.

Both systems work similarly, with minor differences, but they all share common features such as, both are cloud-based sports video and analytics platforms featuring technology which offers line calling, live streaming, instant multi-angle video replays and detailed statistics about shots played.

Any court can become a Smart Court when equipped with an interactive touch-screen kiosk, together with six automated HD cameras. The system uses advanced image processing and analytical algorithms to capture and log stroke type, ball trajectory, speed, spin and player movement.

MS 16 in partnership with Latvian Tennis Association organized Fed Cup Latvia vs Slovakia in Arena Riga during 9th and 10th of February 2019. MS 16 is glad to announce that the Latvian team have won.

Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women’s tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995. The Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual women’s international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete.

Malta’s business legislation and tax systems are considered amongst the most favorable in Europe and this is supported by its strategic location straddling the busiest shipping lanes in the Mediterranean. Malta has a strong financial services sector and a thriving IT industry.

MS 16 strategy for expanding operations to Malta include specific targeting of knowledge economy sectors including financial services, information technology companies, research and development, and high-end manufacturing.

Malta has successfully weathered the global economic downturn – maintaining A or A+ status in the significant economic indexes. Amongst others, these reasons are critical drivers for MS 16 expansion in Malta.

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During the month of August, MS 16 team advised Hungarian based international bank regarding their new mobile products.

MS 16 research team analyzed European market for mobile banking and mobile payments and concluded that, overall, shoppers in Europe have shown little interest in mobile payments to date. In France, for example, more than half of smartphone users in December 2016 said they were not willing to use mobile payments, even for purchases less than EUR 20.

But mobile payments are finally poised for takeoff, according to MS 16 research. It expects the value of mobile transactions in the EU-7 – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK – to jump almost threefold during the next five years, from USD 52 billion at the end of 2015 to USD 148 billion by 2021, spurred by increasing consumer awareness and growing retailer interest in mobile payment options.

Our research defines mobile payments as including in-person mobile payments, such as contactless payments; remote mobile payments, and peer-to-peer payments.

Remote mobile payments will increase more slowly across the EU, but will remain the largest segment of the market by a sizable margin. The value of remote mobile transactions is projected to climb at a compound annual growth rate of 20% and makeup two thirds of mobile payments in 2021.

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In 2018 from August 28 to August 31, Tennis Club ENRI hosted the largest wheelchair tennis tournament in Latvian history – the International Future Series of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) Riga Cup by ENRI 2018, with a total prize pool of USD 3000 that was donated by MS 16 and tennis club ENRI.

Players from 14 different countries around the world participated in this tournament: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Russia, Greece. The total number of athletes in this tournament was 33 athletes in wheelchairs. In the tournament also was the world’s leading wheelchair players.

According to MS 16 research on facility management, the global market size to grow from USD 34.65 billion in 2018 to USD 59.33 billion by 2023.

The significant growth factors for the market include growth in the development of sustainable infrastructure, and in the adoption of IoT (Internet of Things) and connected devices for building automation across industry verticals. Moreover, an increasing need to meet environmental and regulatory compliance, and spur demand for integrated facility management to achieve economies of scale are also driving the market. The facility management market is segmented from solutions, services, organization size, deployment types, verticals, and regions.

In the solutions segment, the facility property management subsegment is expected to hold the largest market share. Facility property management solutions help enterprises derive tangible value from their business operations, by enhancing their efficiency and effectiveness. These solutions are further segmented into lease accounting and real estate management, asset maintenance management, workspace and relocation management, and reservation management.

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