Blockchain: the fever of the ICOs must be brought down. This form of funding, which allows small business to reach millions via blockchain and cryptocurrencies, is facing a dangerous bubble driven by speculation. 

The Middle East Banking Innovation Summit is proud to announce that Nucleus Software, the leading provider of lending and transaction banking solutions to the global financial services industry, is participating as a gold sponsor at the event which will be held September 18-19, 2017 in Dubai. Organized by global conference producers, Expotrade, the summit in its 7^th year will focus on the region’s Fintech market, technology driven banking trends and the emerging challenges with digitalization.

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced the appointment of Patrick Strobel as Head of Technology for EMEA. In this newly formed role, Patrick will be responsible for building out Liquidnet’s strategic IT architecture in EMEA with an emphasis on the region’s Virtual High Touch MiFID II solutions. He brings over sixteen years’ experience delivering IT solutions for investment banks such as Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.

Alpha Payments Cloud, a fintech pioneer aiming to evolve and simplify how payments related vendors are accessed, is excited to unveil its joint venture with Australia Post, named the Alpha Commerce Hub (ACH). 

D3 Banking, provider of the industry’s most advanced digital banking platform, announced today that First Tennessee Bank has successfully deployed its mobile banking application to the bank’s more than 300,000 registered mobile users. 

EvoSwitch, a Europe and U.S. based colocation data center provider with its partner-rich cloud interconnection platform, EvoSwitch OpenCloud, today releases a new white paper titled: ‘How to Build a Better Cloud –Planning.’ Aimed at CIOs, CTOs and IT Directors, the white paper provides expert-input to a business-driven planning process for weighing multi-cloud environments and implementing a hybrid cloud strategy.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.(NYSE:BR) announced that Whitebox Advisors, a global, multi-strategy, multi-billion-dollar hedge fund, has chosen Broadridge’s best-in-suite solution to transform Whitebox’s technology platform to a new paradigm of fully integrated, hedge fund operations hosted by Broadridge.

International technology group Wirecard has partnered with Singtel to support the recent roll out of Singapore’s first Visa virtual card for Singtel’s mobile wallet Dash.

Singtel Dash is currently Singapore’s most widely accepted all-in-one digital wallet. The mobile payments platform, which allows customers to shop, pay transport fares and remit money, is part of Singtel’s strategy to transform Southeast Asia’s biggest phone carrier into a leading communications technology company by investing into digital and cyber security businesses.

CLS Group (CLS), a leading provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, has signed a Statement of Commitment to the FX Global Code. The declaration states that CLS has adopted and implemented the principles of the Code. 

CLS Statement of Commitment: