Over the past four years, DataArt’s blockchain center of excellence has delivered a variety of blockchain-driven business solutions to dozens of clients. Most of the early blockchain adopters have been mid-size businesses and technology startups. The majority of existing solutions support digital wallets, payments, and cryptocurrency exchanges, with a particularly strong growth in gaming and e-commerce.

The inaugural edition of Vizag Fintech Festival 2018, an initiative by Government of Andhra Pradesh and organized by Fintech Valley Vizag was held from 22nd – 26th October 2018 at Hotel Novotel, Vizag.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated financial message integration and end-to-end payments processing, today announced the release of Volante Designer version 6.0. This major release allows banks and financial institutions to address the increasing industry demand for API, cloud and microservices enablement.

We sat down to chat with Thomas George, Head of International with Monzo. The UK challenger bank announced a month ago a new milestone: they’ve reached one million customers. We wanted to know what’s next for them and how the digital banking revolution is set to become a cross-border reality. Don’t miss George Thomas at the Empire FinTech Conference in San Francisco on Nov. 13.

EMPIRE STARTUPS: To what extent is Monzo international?

LiquidityBook today announced that Tremblant Capital, a multi-billion global asset management firm, has selected the SaaS-based LBX Buy Side as its full POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system), with the integrated LBX Connect as its FIX routing network. LBX Buy Side replaced an existing system which was implemented 16 years ago near Tremblant’s inception.

The science behind behavioral economics confirms that people make wholly irrational decisions. In the finance world, identifying which emotions come into play when people make the financial choices they do, can help bankers and those in the finance sector to understand why, whether it’s buying a house, withdrawing cash, investing money or saving for retirement.

The highly prestigious award concludes this year’s FinovateAsia, a major international fintech innovation conference which took place in Hong Kong on 29 and 30 October 2018. The event saw around 20 leading fintech firms, including Avaloq, demonstrate their tools and solutions to an audience of industry experts.

Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech Mexico City announces the opening of applications for its second cohort and invites the best growth stage FinTech startups to apply by December 10th.

It is the only FinTech scaling program in Latin America and is designed for growth stages companies specialized in FinTech.

Today, LogMeIn, Inc.

 Mistertango, the first crypto-friendly payment company, today announced the launch of its partners “Offers” platform. The new platform, which is integrated into Mistertango’s website and mobile application, provides customers with access to a range of services and solutions offered by Mistertango’s partners. Mistertango customers will benefit from new, often exclusive offers, and partners have a new channel to market for their products.