20 January 2020

Nespresso Ispirazione Italiana

Transport yourself to iconic Italian cities with coffees inspired by the richness of Italian roasting tradition with the Nespresso Ispirazione Italiana coffee range.

ISPIRAZIONE NAPOLI

The darkest roast in this range pays tribute to this Italian capital of coffee by creating a creamy coffee that intensifies with every mouthful.

ISPIRAZIONE PALERMO KAZAAR

A long and dark roast inspired by the south that enhances the wildness and spiciness of this blend.

ISPIRAZIONE RISTRETTO ITALIANO

A medium dark roast that reveals its intensity with elegant fruity notes and a hint of acidity that dances through the blend.

ISPIRAZIONE FIRENZE ARPEGGIO

This short and dark roast combines cocoa notes with sweeter blends to create a velvety masterpiece.

ISPIRAZIONE ROMA

This short roast with elegant aromatics achieves woody and cereal notes with hints of acidity.

ISPIRAZIONE VENEZIA

A long roast harmonizing a hint of fruity and floral aromas, the distinct cereal fragrance, and luxurious notes of sweet caramel.

ISPIRAZIONE GENOVA LIVANTO

This sweet medium roast delivers a beautiful balanced and aromatic complexity of cereal and caramel notes.

ISPIRAZIONE RISTRETTO ITALIANO DECAFEINATTO

A medium dark roast that reveals its intensity with elegant fruity notes and a hint of acidity that dances through the blend.

ISPIRAZIONE FIRENZE ARPEGGIO DECAFFEINATO

This short and dark roast combines cocoa notes with sweeter blends to create a velvety masterpiece.

18 January 2020

Nespresso Professional : Origins - A Balance Of Land & Bean

From seed to sip, each coffee echoes the land it grows on and the care it receives. Specially selected for you and your customers, meet Origins: four characters as individual as the terroirs themselves.

PERU ORGANIC

Welcome to the remote Peruvian highlands where perfect natural conditions and farmer’s meticulous care bring you our first organic coffee.

It’s time to meet our pure organic coffee. The heady Peruvian altitude, remote geography and specific microclimate pair with extensive natural practices and care by smallholder farmers to bring you a finely balanced coffee with elegant fruit and smooth, toasted cereal notes.

ORIGIN GUATEMALA

From mineral-rich volcanic soil, the strength and explosive flavour of this Guatemalan Robusta coffee comes as no surprise, but its smoothness will.

From rich, bold volcanic soils comes a strong coffee to match. Meet Guatemala, a dynamic blend of Arabica and fine Robusta variety. A surprising washed process for the Robusta brings you a silky-smooth texture with an intense dry, malty cereal note while keeping the aromatic complexity as alive as the lands where it was grown.

ORIGIN INDIA

Born of exotic fields, among the spices and fruit trees, meet this blend of Arabica and Robusta that serves you a real taste of India.

Grown in the shade of exotic trees and spices in the historic lands where coffee first flourished in India, meet the spirited legacy to those beans - India. Intriguingly subtle and yet stimulatingly powerful, it’s testament to the incredible biodiversity of where it thrives. Expect an aromatic intensity that hits your palate with a noble punch worthy of its history.

ORIGIN BRAZIL

Get a taste of the rolling hills and savannahs of Brazil and meet this sweet, smooth coffee blend, enriched with fragile and renowned yellow bourbon Arabicas.

Bringing you an impossibly silky combination of mild Brazilian Arabicas from the arid savannahs of the Cerrado region and the highly regarded sweet Red and Yellow Bourbon Arabicas from the hilltop plantations of southern Brazil. Both elegant and delicate, this coffee’s soft honeyed and toasted cereal notes are neither bitter or acidic, just smooth beyond compare.

17 January 2020

Nespresso Professional: Peru Organic

It’s time to meet our first pure organic coffee. The heady Peruvian altitude, remote geography and specific microclimate pair with extensive natural practices and care by smallholder farmers to bring you a finely balanced coffee with elegant fruit and smooth, toasted cereal notes.


FRUITY AND ELEGANT

We travelled across remote Peruvian regions in search of the finest organic certified Arabica coffee beans. High up above 1000 meters - even up to 2100 meters - tucked into the slopes of the Andes, we found them. Made with organic processes passed down from generation to generation, this coffee is blessed with the meticulous care of smallholder farmers. Peru Organic is split-roast to reveal both the bright, juicy acidity and the elegant fruity notes accented by a smooth, toasted cereal note.


ORIGIN

In Peru, the Andes extend from North to South, separating the coastal desert from the tropical rainforest. Coffee grows here – high up in the Andes – between 1000 and 2100 meters. It’s a subtropical highland climate where the high humidity levels and altitude improve the quality potential of the coffee beans.

ROASTING

After going to such great lengths to source the finest Organic Peruvian coffee, it was only natural to take the same care in roasting this coffee. Peru Organic is a single-origin coffee roasted in two parts to bring a nuanced complexity to the final cup. The two splits are lightly roasted and highlight the bright and smooth character of the blend while revealing the exotic fruity notes.


AROMATIC PROFILE

Peru Organic is a fruity coffee with distinct green vegetable notes. The coffee’s fine acidity is beautifully balanced by its contrasting aromas of toasted sweet cereals.

15 January 2020

Singapore: MAS and ACRA Launch Variable Capital Companies Framework

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) launched the Variable Capital Companies (VCC) framework today. The VCC is a new corporate structure that can be used for a wide range of investment funds and provides fund managers greater operational flexibility and cost savings. It will encourage more funds to be domiciled in Singapore and enhance its value as an international fund management centre.

14 January 2020

Mauritius: FSC issues the AML-CFT Handbook

As part of the Financial Services Commission initiatives to assist the financial institutions in applying national measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, the Commission has developed its Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Handbook (the ‘AML/CFT Handbook’). The aim of the Handbook is to assist the financial institutions under the purview of the Commission in complying with the requirements of the FIAMLA and the FIAML Regulations 2018. It consolidates the Commission’s guidance on anti-money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

This AML/CFT Handbook is designed to provide guidance to all financial institutions. Under the FIAMLA, a financial institution is an institution, or a person, licensed or registered or required to be licensed or registered under – 

(a) section 14, 77, 77A or 79A of the Financial Services Act;

(b) the Insurance Act;

(c) the Securities Act; or

(d) the Captive Insurance Act 2015;