Modex: How blockchain can solve the fake news problem
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain
When Satoshi Nakamoto solved the Byzantine General's problem in 2008 by inventing the Proof of Work consensus mechanism, not only did the world come to know what is today collectively known as Bitcoin, it received something which triggered a profound and irreversible chain of events. Few of us knew and even fewer dared to imagine that the solution to a mathematical problem would be the key to decipher a myriad of social, economic, and political...
NICE Awarded Ten Year Contract Valued Up to $137 Million to Modernize Federal Aviation Authority’s Incident Debriefing Solutions in Over 770 Sites Globally
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Cloud
Every day the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. To support its mission critical debriefing, incident handling and continuous improvement NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has chosen NICE to support the rapidly evolving air traffic control requirements, awarding it a...
Tink calls on national regulators to show flexibility around PSD2 implementation deadline to prevent open banking ‘cliff edge’
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Cloud, Data
Open banking platform Tink is calling for National Competent Authorities (NCAs) - the national bodies responsible for overseeing PSD2 in EU member states - to be flexible around the implementation deadline for PSD2 in a bid to avoid a ‘cliff-edge’ scenario after the final deadline on 14 September.
TruNarrative provides cutting-edge compliance platform for FinTech money innovator Tally®
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Digital Identity, Banking
Financial crime and compliance software firm TruNarrative has been appointed by cutting-edge banking app Tally®, to enhance the customer onboarding and identity verification processes. Tally® is the first banking app to offer consumers an alternative physical asset currency for everyday spending – where one Tally® is one milligram of vaulted gold owned by the customer – through the Tally® platform and debit Mastercard®, like a regular bank...
Capacity Unveils AI Knowledge Sharing Platform; Boosts Workplace Productivity
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Capacity officially introduced its secure, AI-native knowledge-sharing platform. Designed to meet the expectations of today’s workforce, Capacity is a cloud-based system built on AI that captures, mines, and connects organizational knowledge to maximize employee productivity. The company also announced that it raised $13.2 million in Series B funding from a Midwest network of private and angel investors to help support company growth and scale...
Ivalua Expands Executive Team with Addition of Pascal Bensoussan as Chief Product Officer
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Management
Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that Pascal Bensoussan has joined its Executive team as Chief Product Officer. In this newly created role, Bensoussan will focus on leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plans for Ivalua’s cloud-based platform.
Standard Chartered Bank joined with SAP Ariba to bring financial supply chain solutions to the world’s largest digital business network
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Banking
Standard Chartered Bank and SAP Ariba today announced a strategic collaboration to make the Bank’s financial supply chain solutions easily accessible to businesses in the Asia Pacific region through Ariba Network, the world’s largest digital business network connecting more than 4.2 million companies in 190 countries.
Blockchain Partners with Polkadot as Network Interoperability Takes Center Stage
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain, Asset Management, Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain, the leading provider of cryptocurrency products and creator of the most popular cryptocurrency wallet, has partnered with the Polkadot Network to accelerate the adoption and decentralization of Polkadot tokens (“DOTs”) as it aims to solve the challenges of cross-blockchain interoperability. When the integration is complete, Blockchain’s 41M Wallets will be able to store, send, and receive DOTs, while contributing to the network’s...
Ossiam releases leveraged US Steepener ETF with Solactive index
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Data
At the moment, the US Treasury yield curve sits in the focus of investors. The reason the curve receives such attention lies in its slope, which is as flat as it was way back in 2007. To grant investors the opportunity to benefit from a potential steepening of the US Treasury yield curve, French Asset Manager Ossiam issued its Ossiam US Steepener UCITS ETF on August 19th at Deutsche Börse Xetra, tracking the Solactive US Treasury Yield Curve...
Wolters Kluwer Wins Waters Technology Award for Market Risk
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Risk Management
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance Risk & Reporting (FRR) business is the Best Market Risk Solution Provider, according to Waters Technology, the 35-year-old journal of record for the financial technology industry. The award was part of the annual Waters Technology Rankings, a survey which “should be considered a reflection of how financial technology professionals view their peers in terms of overall quality of service,” according to the magazine’s...
CryptoCompare’s July Exchange Review shows top ranked exchanges increasing market share, yet lower quality exchanges still dominate
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies, Data
CryptoCompare, the leading provider of cryptocurrency data and indices, today released its July 2019 Exchange Review which provides analysis of key developments in the cryptocurrency exchange-traded market. Charles Hayter, Co-Founder and CEO of CryptoCompare, said:
60% of European investors learn to manage finances on their own
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Platform Technology, P2P Lending
A survey by the European P2P platform Robo.cash showed that 60.4% of P2P investors gain knowledge in finance on their own. In overall, 89.2% of respondents have some form of financial background, which allows them to make informed investment decisions independently.
BMLL Technologies launches Derived Data Service for bespoke trading analytics
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Cloud, Data
BMLL Technologies, the cloud-based Capital Markets Data-Engineering-as-a-Service company, today announced the launch of its new Derived Data Service. The platform enables market participants to consume bespoke metrics derived from the most granular message-by-message exchange data directly into their trading systems both at speed and at scale.
Polychain Capital and NGC Ventures Contribute to CoinFLEX’s $10 Million USD Fundraise
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
CoinFLEX, the world’s first physically delivered crypto futures exchange, has announced that it secured over $10 million USD in funding this year. Polychain Capital; a premier investor in cryptocurrency protocols and companies and NGC Ventures II, the multi-strategy crypto fund of one of the world’s leading blockchain investment firms, NGC Ventures, were contributors to the raise.
Worst-case scenario for financial products and software: The Johnson Brexit
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Trading Systems, Payments
London is still considered as Europe’s largest financial centre; 90 percent of all derivatives traded in euros are transacted in the British capital. This can change with the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who ranks as Brexit hardliner. “With Brexit, the European financial industry is facing the biggest transformation since the construction of the EU.
