In February 2019 70+ women got together for the launch of a new network aimed at connecting women who work in the regulatory technology (RegTech) industry in financial services.

Two years later and with more than 500 supporters, RegTech Women have firmly established themselves as the leading network that supports and enhances the vital role that women play in driving success in the industry.

Baton Systems (“Baton”), a provider of post-trade solutions for capital markets, has appointed Jerome Kemp, global futures industry leader and former Global Head of Futures, OTC Clearing, and FX Prime Brokerage at Citi as Senior Advisor. Kemp will bring his deep expertise in cleared derivatives and OTC clearing to Baton as the company accelerates its position to deliver a fully end-to-end FX settlement ecosystem.

In a bid to help novel investors adopt cryptocurrency as a potential asset class, CoinDCX - India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange has launched CoinDCX Go - the simplest and the most secure place to buy and sell bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The exchange eyes mass adoption among beginner investors in crypto especially millennial and Gen Z and aims to onboard 50 million Indians. 

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announces its next-generation Temenos Enterprise Pricing solution, which enables banks to design, manage and price innovative products, services and product bundles using their own and third-party products. Temenos Enterprise Pricing can be deployed on Temenos Transact or on any third-party core, helping larger banks burdened with complex, siloed legacy systems gain faster time to value as they start their modernization program.

The need for safer and more touchless ways to pay has escalated and consumers are embracing contactless cards as the preferred means of payment, with 77% using them regularly in-store. However, in parallel with the increased use of contactless are rising security and usability concerns.

The pandemic has rapidly changed the way we pay and our attitudes towards how we want to pay in the future.

A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom, the global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has found that in their efforts to stabilise trading revenues, proprietary trading firms are overwhelmingly interested in trading new emerging markets.

The recent news of criminals gaining access to New Zealand’s reserve bank has again sent a warning to all in the financial sector of the impact of cyber-crime.

The hack was not a direct attack on the bank, but seems to have come through a third-party supplier, Accellion. Accellion, which was used by the bank to share documents with external stakeholders, was hacked on Christmas Day, US time.

Perenna, the London based fintech, has completed its latest funding round raising $10 million as part of its plans to obtain a banking licence and bring its technology-centric lending proposition of fixed for life mortgages to the UK housing market in summer 2021.

Aion Bank, a new full-service digital bank, and Vodeno, a cloud-based banking-as-a-service platform, have partnered with cloud-native payments technology specialists Form3 to implement their next-generation payments platform and deliver real-time payment processing, clearing and settlement for Aion’s European members.