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 running an ICO.

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.

UK FinTech Delio, the leading white-label platform for private assets, is expanding into the Benelux region in a response to high demand.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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 processes and deve

At EQ, we pride ourselves on being a “tech-savvy firm” and strive to stay on top of technology trends. Customer service has evolved – it’s more than person-to-person service and thanks to technology, companies such as ourselves can connect with clients in new and exciting ways.

Last year, the Financial Conduct Authority introduced the Senior Managers Regime (SMR).

It promises to tackle the cultural problems uncovered during the financial crisis, and rebuild public trust in the sector. Initially confined to banks, SMR is set to be rolled out to all financial firms, including advisers, from 2018.

With hindsight, it’s clear to all that the banks failed during the financial crisis. Accountability was a moveable feast. Responsibility was, in some cases, completed shrugged off. The financial services culture had, to a large extent, gone rogue.