HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 29 September 2026 – The Datawords Group announces its name change and becomes 87seconds. For 27 years, the group has supported the world's leading brands in creating, deploying, and managing their content on an international scale, combining human expertise, proprietary technology, and artificial intelligence. Today, it adopts a name equal to that ambition.
87. AND EVERYTHING THOSE TWO DIGITS SAY ABOUT THE WORLD.
87seconds is not a name chosen at random. It carries both a cultural conviction and a strong business ambition.
In many Asian cultures, the number 8 symbolizes prosperity, success, and forward momentum. In the West, the number 7 is associated with luck, achievement, and success. Together, 8 and 7 bring two continents and two worldviews together around a single ambition: helping brands succeed everywhere, while respecting every culture. They reflect what the group has always been: a bridge between East and West, between markets, cultures, and audiences.
87seconds is also a unit of time that says everything there is to know about the attention challenge brands face today.
Choosing this name expresses the ambition to go beyond those few seconds, to create content and experiences that make people want to stop, discover, watch, engage, and remember.
It is no longer enough to be seen. Brands must earn more time and more attention: turning a fleeting exposure into emotion, and an interaction into a lasting connection.
This name carries forward the group's founding conviction: Everyone Matters. Every culture, every market, every audience, every platform matters. And so does every second it takes to reach them.
CREATE, DEPLOY, MANAGE: A THREE-PILLAR ORGANIZATION
With this name change, 87seconds is clarifying its organization around three major, complementary areas of expertise, making its offering easier to understand without affecting the identity or independence of its agencies:
- CREATE, which brings together the expertise of 87seconds Creative and Switching-Time in content creation, production, and amplification;
- DEPLOY, which unites Datawords and Wezen around the orchestration, management, and governance of content on an international scale;
- MANAGE, which brings together Vanksen and Whatsquare around visibility, monitoring, digital performance, and conversational experiences.
The brands 87seconds Creative, Switching-Time, Datawords, Wezen, Vanksen, and Whatsquare continue to exist under their respective identities, with their expertise, teams, and organization intact.
"We didn't change our name to change our image. We changed our name because we have changed. The group 87seconds represents 27 years of work, culture, and conviction, finally with a name capable of carrying it all." Alexandre Crazover, CEO and Co-Founder of the Group.
Hashtag: #87seconds #Datawords
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WHO IS 87S ?
87seconds connects brands to the world.
Driven by the conviction that every individual deserves unique attention, 87seconds puts respect for local nuances across the globe at the core of its commitment and expertise. By combining artificial and emotional intelligence, the Group creates, deploys, and manages visual, audio, and written content—faster, smarter, and at scale. This guarantees that brand messages resonate across every touchpoint (websites, e-commerce, e-retail, social media, OOH, TV, and physical stores) across 160 cultures.
Powered by an international network of over 1,000 in-house experts operating 24/7, 87seconds has earned the trust of major global groups (Coty, L'Oréal, LVMH, Michelin) for 27 years to accelerate their international growth.
WHO IS 87S CREATIVE ?
We make every second count.
87seconds is now 87seconds Creative, the creative agency of the 87seconds group (formerly Datawords). Founded in 2010, the agency brings together +100 creative minds to design and produce campaign content across all touchpoints: TV, print, digital, social media, influencer marketing, brand content, activations, and events. Fully integrated, from strategy and creation to production and post-production, the agency turns trends and culture into ideas that capture attention and drive impact from the very first seconds.
Key clients: Henkel, L'Oréal, Darty, Pierre Fabre, Sanofi, Carrefour, Lacoste, Metagenics, Candia Baby, TotalEnergies, Nestlé, Thales, Cavaillès, and Candy'Up.
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Alexandre Crazover (CEO and co-founder of the group ), Didier Rosenberg (cofounder of the group)
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 September 2026 – Cashku, the AI-native digital wealth platform operated by Advisonomics Sdn Bhd and licensed by the Securities Commission Malaysia ("SC"), today announced a distribution partnership with Kenanga Investors Berhad ("Kenanga Investors"), the asset and wealth management arm of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad and one of Malaysia's largest investment management firms.
Datuk Wira Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, CEO and Executive Director, Kenanga Investors Berhad and Raevendren Ramachandran, CEO, Cashku
Under the partnership, a selected range of funds offered by Kenanga Investors and its Institutional Unit Trust Adviser partners will be available to Cashku users with no sales charge and from a minimum investment starting from RM10.
For investors, the effect is practical: investors can review fund information, open an account, set their investing goals, invest and make additional investments within a single application, with suitability assessed at the point of investment and monitored continuously thereafter.
Cashku has rebuilt the advice layer of wealth management around agentic AI; software that does not simply answer questions, but carries out risk profiling, goal-based portfolio construction, suitability assessment and ongoing portfolio monitoring, under the oversight of licensed human advisers and within the SC's regulatory framework. That architecture, for which Cashku received a DIGID award for data-driven advisory under the SC's Digital Innovation Fund in 2024, is what allows the platform to reach investors at a materially lower cost to serve.
The partnership arrives as Malaysia's fund management industry reaches record scale. Assets under management rose 6.9% to a record RM1.14 trillion in 2025, with unit trust funds forming the largest single category at roughly half of that total. The SC's Capital Market Masterplan 2026–2030 targets a capital market of over RM6 trillion by 2030 and names an inclusive capital market for all Malaysians as one of its four strategic themes — an agenda that depends on reaching the Malaysians who are not investing today. Individual participation in the capital market currently stands at 25%, and the Masterplan finds that around 60% of non-investors are under the age of 40.
"Malaysia's problem has never been the quality of its funds — it has been access to the advice that helps people use them well. Financial planning has traditionally been reserved for those wealthy enough to pay for it, which is why most households have never had a plan at all. Cashku exists to change that: to give every Malaysian a plan built around their own goals. Partnering with managers like Kenanga Investors is how that gap closes."
— Raevendren Ramachandran, Chief Executive Officer, Cashku
"Digital distribution is a natural extension of the Group's own digitalisation agenda. Working with a licensed platform such as Cashku allows us to reach investors who are starting earlier and investing in smaller amounts than traditional channels are built to serve, without compromising the standards of suitability, transparency and governance our clients expect."
— Datuk Wira Ismitz Matthew De Alwis, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Kenanga Investors.
Hashtag: #Kenanga
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About Kenanga Investors Berhad 199501024358 (353563-P)
Kenanga Investors Berhad is a licensed fund management company regulated by the Securities Commission Malaysia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad. It provides investment solutions spanning collective investment schemes, portfolio management services, alternative investments, and wills and trusts for retail, corporate, institutional and high net worth clients through a multi-distribution network.
The LSEG Lipper Fund Awards 2026 recognised four funds under the Malaysia Provident Funds category; Kenanga Growth Fund was named Equity Malaysia (5 Years), Kenanga Growth Fund Series 2 was awarded Equity Malaysia Diversified (3 Years), Kenanga Malaysian Inc Fund was awarded Equity Malaysia Diversified (10 Years) while Kenanga Managed Growth Fund was recognised with the title Mixed Asset MYR Balanced – Malaysia (10 Years).
The Hong Kong-based Asia Asset Management's ("AAM") 2026 Best of the Best Awards awarded Kenanga Investors under the following categories, Malaysia Best Impact Investing Manager, Best Impact Investing Manager in ASEAN, Malaysia Best Equity Manager, Malaysia CEO of the Year (Co-Winner), Malaysia CIO of the Year, Malaysia Best House for Alternatives and Malaysia Best ESG Engagement Initiative.
At the AAM ETF Awards 2026, Kenanga Investors received an accolade under the category Malaysia Leverage and Inverse ETF of the Year for the Kenanga KLCI Daily (-1x) Inverse ETF. The IFN Investor Awards 2025 awarded the Kenanga Islamic Balanced Fund under the categories of "IFN Investor Best Balanced Mixed Assets Fund in Malaysia — MYR 2025", "IFN Investor Best Balanced Mixed Assets Fund in Asia Pacific 2025", and "IFN Investor Best Global Balanced Mixed Assets Fund 2025".
For the ninth consecutive year, we were affirmed an investment manager rating of IMR-2 by Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad, since first rated in 2017. The IMR rating on reflects the fund management company's well-established investment processes and sound risk management practices.
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