DTCC Welcomes New Board Members
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Infrastructure
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that four new members have been elected to its Board of Directors.
The Largest European Blockchain Conference Was Held in Munich
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Blockchain
April 6, - BlockShow Europe 2017 was held in Alte Kongresshalle, Munich. With 560 attendees, 26 exhibitors, and 26 speakers, the conference became the largest international Blockchain-related event ever organized in Europe. Led by Elizabeth Lumley, the managing director at Rainmaking and one of the most famous women in Fintech, the event covered a number of hot topics ranging from practical application of Blockchain technology to aspects of...
Delio Launches Belgian office
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Platform Technology, Asset Management, Infrastructure
UK FinTech Delio, the leading white-label platform for private assets, is expanding into the Benelux region in a response to high demand. The firm, headquartered in Cardiff, Wales launched in 2015 and has already experienced fast growth, opening offices in London and now Brussels. Working with a range of firms from small family offices and corporate finance boutiques all the way through to global financial institutions and investment...
Roostify Assigns Frank Gelbart as Chief Revenue Officer
- 9 years 4 days ago
- People Moves
Roostify, a provider of automated mortgage transaction technology, today announced it has named Frank Gelbart as Chief Revenue Officer. Frank will be responsible for driving new and existing revenue streams as well as managing partner relationships for Roostify.
WorldRemit Collaborate with Wafacash for Money Transfers to Morocco
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Money Transfers
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered with leading Moroccan financial company Wafacash to further support the growing demand for instant remittances and the immediate access of funds in the country. WorldRemit customers can now send overseas money transfers to be collected in one of the 1620 Wafacash cash pick up locations all over the country, including Marrakesh, Tanger, Tetouan, Salé, Fes, Agadir, Meknes, Oujda, Kenitra,...
TradAir Uses Trading Platform at Amazon AWS London Region
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Trading Systems
TradAir, the global provider of trading technology solutions for banks, brokers, prime of primes and regulated marketplaces, is using AWS’s London Region to reduce round-trip latency and improve its execution performance. TradAir’s fully managed low-latency trading technology solutions hosted in Equinix LD4, are now also hosted in the AWS London Region. The new AWS UK Region provides the scale, reach and high-availability critical for TradAir’s...
BT Radianz Services Becomes Available at Verne Global Iceland Data Centre
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Data Management
Verne Global, a global developer at the forefront of data center infrastructure design, today announced the availability of a range of BT Radianz connectivity and hosting services at its innovative data center in Iceland. The move offers BT’s global financial services customers more choice in the selection of predictable, low-cost, highly efficient data centers to house and connect their applications and services. It also allows BT’s financial...
OneMarketData Unveils OneTick Elastic Analytics
- 9 years 4 days ago
- Data
OneMarketData, LLC, the creators of OneTick, the premier solution for event stream processing and tick data management, today announced the launch of OneTick Elastic Analytics, a new platform for scalable analytics and data as a hosted service. This offering will showcase how cloud capabilities can support faster analytics, back-testing and client reporting by leveraging elastic cloud resources to support business decisions, compute-heavy...
Itiviti Reveals Certification Solution for FIX Order Flows to Ensure Timely MiFID II Compliance
- 9 years 5 days ago
- Infrastructure
Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced the launch of Itiviti MiFID II Certification Solution, designed to facilitate onboarding and re-certification efforts for FIX protocol order flows, as required by the updated European market regulation.
London Tech Week Launches First Academy and Mini-MBA with Market Gravity
- 9 years 5 days ago
- Infrastructure
London Tech Week has launched its first Academy, a series of unique learning experiences bringing the best and brightest talent to London. Focusing on innovation in the digital age, London Tech Week Academy features a five-day immersive mini-MBA brought to life by Market Gravity. Working in partnership, the organisations will provide a unique and experiential learning experience, held at the Academy by Google, designed to maximise exposure and...
HCL to Acquire Mortgage BPO Provider Urban Fulfillment Services
- 9 years 5 days ago
- M&A Deals
HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, today announced an agreement to acquire Urban Fulfillment Services, LLC, (“UFS”), a provider of mortgage business process & fulfilment services. UFS is a Limited Liability Company incorporated in USA, founded in 2002. With over 350 highly skilled professionals, UFS operates out of 3 centres in the US, engaged in providing mortgage business process and fulfilment services to its...
Kyriba Gains Rapid Adoption Among Top NetSuite Partners: Capgemini, Clustin, NetSoft and RSM
- 9 years 5 days ago
- Cloud
Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud-based finance solutions, today announced its cash forecasting, payments and bank connectivity modules are gaining strong momentum among global NetSuite solution providers.
BBVA Unveils New Blockchain-Based Transfer System to Simplify Overseas Payments and Reduce Transaction Fees
- 9 years 5 days ago
- Blockchain, Money Transfers
Banco Bilbao Baningo Vazcaya Argentaria SA (BBVA), second largest multinational Spanish Banking group, has announced execution of its first cross-border payments, based on the blockchain-supported fund transfer system. By virtue of the new technological advancement, designed by Ripple, San Francisco firm, BBVA managed to transfer about 50-euto dominated payments from Spain to Mexico within a few seconds. Usually, conventional transactions...
Atom appoints will.i.am as a Strategic Board Advisor
- 9 years 5 days ago
- People Moves
One year on since Atom officially launched the UK’s first bank built exclusively for mobile, they have announced will.i.am as their first Strategic Board Advisor. The entrepreneur, philanthropist, musician and consumer technology investor will take on the role of Strategic Board Advisor. In this new role of Strategic Board Advisor, will.i.am - who has a keen interest in technology, will provide the Durham-based bank with an external perspective...
Aquis Exchange Adds Austrian Blue-Chips
- 9 years 5 days ago
- Trading Systems
Aquis Exchange, the pan-European equities exchange and software developer, is to begin trading Austrian blue-chip stocks. The expansion of the Aquis Exchange trading universe by the addition of the 10 largest, most liquid, Austrian stocks will take place on Tuesday, 25th April 2017 and brings the total number of markets covered by the exchange to 14. Commenting on the announcement, Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis Exchange, said:
