A new report by the Wi-SUN Alliance, a global member-based association driving the proliferation of interoperable wireless solutions for use in smart cities, smart utilities and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications, shows that half of organisations investing in IoT initiatives already have a fully implemented strategy in place, while more than a third (36%) have a partially implemented strategy.

Regal Assets, one of the world’s top rated alternative assets companies with offices in the US, Canada and the UAE, has now added Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple and Dash to its growing product line. On November 28, 2017 Regal Assets officially received the first ever Crypto-commodities license issued by the DMCC and is now able to handle trades in all major cryptos globally.

New research from Ovum, the market-leading research and consulting firm, reveals that North American commercial banks are continuing to increase their investment in real-time payments (RTP). The report “The rise of real-time payments in North America”, commissioned by Icon Solutions is based on responses from more than 7,000 CIOs and other senior IT decision makers.

Financial blockchain corporation Finom AG today announced the launch of its $101 million tokenized equity offering to be executed pursuant to Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. Finom makes the world of finance available to everyone by providing a blockchain ecosystem with a single point of entry.

Mitratech, a leading provider of legal, compliance, and risk management software solutions, today announced that its enterprise legal management (ELM) products have earned distinctions as Market Leaders and Highly Innovative products in the 2017 MarketView(TM) Report on Enterprise Legal Management by 

Nordea has joined the we.trade consortium as founding partner. The consortium is, in conjunction with IBM, developing a platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that aims at making domestic and cross-border commerce easier, safer and more efficient for companies. It is the first such blockchain-based trade finance platform, marking a milestone in the practical adoption of DLT in the financial industry.

Purpose Software, the UK’s leading supplier of business management software to the managed services and print reseller industry, has announced the immediate availability of a new dashboard option for its CBS and 2serv service management solutions.  This new capability will help resellers to improve individual, team and organisational performance whilst enhancing decision-making across the business.

Trustly, the European payments company, is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for the highly distinguished DI Gasell award for the third consecutive year.

The DI Gasell award was established in 2000 by the Swedish financial daily newspaper Dagens Industrito recognise Sweden’s fastest growing and most profitable companies. 

The Nordic IT services and software company Tieto is contributing to the market introduction of Facebook’s open source initiative, Open/R. The goal of Open/R is to become the foundation for an ecosystem of open source solutions to enable next generation network services and architectures that would pave the roads towards digitalization. 

As businesses are becoming more and more digital and consumers’ usage of rich digital content is accelerating, the complexity of the underlying communication network is increasing as the flow of information grows.