Nine leading financial technology (fintech) companies have been selected for the sixth annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, a 12-week mentorship program created by Accenture(NYSE: ACN).

Since the launch of the US office of CEX.IO Corp on July 4, CEX.IO’s regulatory compliance team has been tirelessly working with regulators to pass all required checks and audits and receive MTLs in new states. 

ULTUMUS, the leading global provider of data creation, management and distribution services for index and ETF products, today announces the hire of industry operations expert, Daniel Hodgetts as Index Operations Head.

Hodgetts will lead the global index and ETF support team based in London and Singapore and assist in the support of key clients as ULTUMUS roll its data managed data service out to a growing roster of asset managers, investments banks and exchanges.

Small businesses are often powered by passionate teams behind the scenes, and in today’s digital world, having savvy technology resources can help them achieve their goals. Salesforce joins Intuit in the U.S. 

Digital assets like bitcoin have exponentially outperformed competing asset classes such as the s&p500, nasdaq, gold & oil. The value of bitcoin has been rapidly increasing year after year due to a fixed supply (only 21M BTC will ever exist) and growing demand factor.

Standard Chartered and Linklogis have recently completed their first joint deep-tier supply chain financing transaction for Digital Guangdong and its upstream suppliers.

Thomas Egner, the Secretary General of the Euro Banking Association recently referred to data as the 'new superpower of the financial services world.'

Always on trend global fashion destination, ASOS, and leading alternative payments provider, Klarna, take on the US. With the original UK partnership kicking off in 2016, ASOS and Klarna now extend their reach to the US market to offer flexible payment options to savvy shoppers.

Global online fashion retailer, ASOS, sells over 850 brands as well as its own range of ASOS Design clothing and accessories, giving their consumers and audience the confidence to be whoever they want to be.

COBOL (formally, the Common Business-Oriented Language) underpins the business-critical applications in most large banks and financial institutions. COBOL has something in common with Latin: it’s omnipresent even though few remain who are fluent in it. Its ubiquity seems benign until something needs to be modified and nobody knows how to do so without introducing new problems—and then the benefits of modernising suddenly become clear. 

Libra, Facebook's forthcoming cryptocurrency, was formally announced this summer, and will be released in 2020. It's getting a lot of attention for a few reasons, including the pure fact that it comes from such a major tech company as Facebook, as well as that it appears as if it will actually have monetary backing, which some believe will lead to greater price stability.