Foxley Kingham appoints Phil Stevens as Tax Director
- 6 years 12 months ago
- Accounting, People Moves
Foxley Kingham, Luton-based chartered accountants and business advisers, are delighted to announce the appointment of tax consultant Phil Stevens, who has joined the company in the role of Tax Director. Phil will provide technical tax support to clients and colleagues and will help to expand both the tax department and Foxley Kingham as a whole. His role will lead the planning and delivery of tax compliance and advisory services and help shape...
Modex: How blockchain can solve the fake news problem
- 6 years 12 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 12 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 12 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 12 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
- 7 years 16 hours 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
- 7 years 17 hours 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
- 7 years 17 hours 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
- 7 years 18 hours 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
- 7 years 18 hours 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
- 7 years 18 hours 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
- 7 years 19 hours 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
- 7 years 21 hours 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
- 7 years 21 hours 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
- 7 years 21 hours 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.
