ARQA Technologies, one of the major players in technologies for financial markets, continues developing solutions for the European markets for complex trading infrastructures, powered by QuantHouse data and hosting services. The new opportunities are the result of high demand for ARQA OMS – a classic OMS for sell-side companies which use Sales&Trading approach in servicing clients.

 Cassava Fintech and Comviva have jointly won the East Africa Com Award in “Fintech Innovation Award” category for EcoCash Merchant Payments powered by mobiquity® Money. The award was presented recently at Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. This was the inaugural edition of East Africa Com Awards, where 6 awards were presented.

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX | FRA_DE: TA8), the global leader in RegTech for identity verification and transactional banking/payments, is pleased to provide the following business update. 

E Money Accounts (EMA)

The Company is pleased to announce that it has launched a tailored business to business Euro (€) based transactional banking service, aimed at providing a service to its AML regulated merchant base and affiliate networks.

Earlier this week, I was in Paris speaking to Traders, Heads of Desks and other people on the floor from various part of the financial ecosystem in France and Europe overall: institutional investors, asset managers, brokers, and investments banks to name a few. There were numerous discussions about technology, innovation and digital transformation goals, however one of biggest topics of conversation was the immediate challenge they were dealing with: the Italian crisis. 

What is Italy’s political crisis?  And why does it matter?

A start-up company Bizblocks in South Korea, one of the most developed IT countries, is in focus in the industry for developing the world's first comprehensive platform for personal and enterprise blockchain hardware se

ING announced today that it's expanding its money management platform Yolt to France and Italy. Yolt is ING's smart money app in the UK that helps users to actively manage their personal finances with a one-stop overview of their accounts with the majority of UK banks and other features. Yolt was launched in the UK in June 2017 and has already attracted 300,000 registered users there. ING's plans to rollout Yolt in France and Italy is part of its ambition to build a pan-European money platform.

In this age of digital evolution, small businesses need all the help they can get to survive among big businesses but most are cut-off from getting loans to help their businesses. Fintech establishment came to the rescue. This establishment provided ways for this business to save money, be more efficient, and build better customer relationship; there is thousands of reason to adopt a swift-working method in running the affairs of your company, regardless of your place in the market.

Don’t get too excited yet, what exactly is Fintech?

I need to warn you right from the start. If you think that the ‘immutability’ of a blockchain is its most useful and precious feature, think again. What you may own today, in either Bitcoin, Ether or XRP cryptocurrency (or any ‘ERC20 token’, for that matter) may become useless, once quantum computing emerges as a threat to today’s public key cryptography (PKI), which is based either on RSA or Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). And all that because of blockchain’s immutability, that we all so happily admire today. Let me explain how and why.