Leading global investment firms have committed to continue investing in the UK’s tech sector saying that London will remain an important destination for investment despite the vote to leave the European Union.

Venture capital houses such as Index Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Balderton Capital and Hoxton Ventures are among a wider group of investment firms to pledge their continued support for the UK’s tech sector, with many citing London as an important hub for future growth.

assetSERV™ represents a cloud-based preconfigured DAM platform to assist the enterprises in managing the end-to-end lifecycle of their digital assets and create a more robust Digital Experience Management (DXM) platform. Regardless where your organization is in the digital transformation journey assetSERV™ brings consistency in managing multiple channels, stakeholders, geographies and audiences while increasing the dynamics of digital customer experience.      

WISeKey International Holding Ltd and OpenLimit Holding AG announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) regarding a contemplated business combination to be executed via a statutory merger under Swiss law, whereby OpenLimit would be merged with and into WISeKey, with WISeKey thus being the surviving entity.

-H.I.G. Capital ("H.I.G."), a leading global private equity investment firm with over $20 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased to announce the sale of its portfolio company, Amerijet Holdings, Inc. (“Amerijet” or the “Company”), to an affiliate of ZS Fund L.P., a middle market focused private equity firm.

Cross border e-payment provider PPRO Group today announces that former senior vice president (SVP) of Skrill, Ronnie d’Arienzo has joined the company in the new role of chief sales officer for payment services, to strengthen the business’ ambitious growth plans.

Tullett Prebon, one of the world’s leading interdealer  brokers, today announced its tpMESSENGER service has selected CME Group’s CME Pivot Instant Messaging platform to power its solution and support open communication for commodities and financialmarkets.

EIGHT senior software engineers have made the move to information based lending company Capital One, in as many weeks, to accelerate digital change at the company.

Capital One is looking to bring the brightest talent on board in 200 new tech positions to meet its goal of becoming a digital leader in the financial industry.

Earnings season is upon us, and banks are once again parlaying the global headwinds they face and their industry’s intensifying competitive factors into a quarterly report worth celebrating. Thus far, results have been mixed.

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This is a semi-technical blog update and it is rather long (20 minutes read). If you don’t like dealing with bits and bytes, you may want to turn away now.

I’ve been meaning to also write a blog update on all things about blockchain for a while, but just haven’t had time.  As it’s summer, I now have more time, so here goes.