Stratis, an enterprise blockchain technology company, announces the launch of its online hackathon to promote the use of smart contracts. The competition has been set up to create a community of experts to develop projects using Stratis Smart Contracts to streamline business processes.

Danny Scott, CEO of CoinCorner, comments on Mark Cuban’s remarks that Bitcoin is “too complicated”:

Janice Diner , CEO & Founder and  Steve Frook, VP Sales at Horizn are speaking about Horizn’s Digital Ambassador Tools that help to support innovation, transformation and digital adoption with employees, customers and the community within the banks

Banking Circle has added another trophy to its already-overflowing award cabinet, with a successful night at the Emerging Payments Awards. The Banking Circle team took home Best B2B Payments Programme.

The 12th annual Emerging Payments Awards recognised excellence and innovation in payments, and winners were selected by an international panel of expert judges who focused on discovering the best innovations in the payments ecosystem.

Financial It speaks with Dr. Mohamed Sadek, CEO of Allied Engineering Group at Sibos 2019, London. Dr. Mohamed Sadek speaks about the latest products developed by Allied Engineering Group that delivers fast and secure payment process for banks and financial institutions.

Moorwand, a dedicated BIN sponsor that turns compliance into a competitive advantage, has won Mastercard ‘Market Shaker’ and  Emerging Payments Association awards. The company has also been nominated for the Fintech Power 50.

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is working with Rakuten Viber and its partner NeoPay to launch a new money transfer service for users of Viber, the secure instant messaging app. With Moneytou – powered by Mastercard, users will be able to quickly and securely send money to each other via the popular messaging app, which has over one billion users worldwide. Wirecard will process these peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions made with payment cards linked to the Moneytou service, with Libra Internet Bank acting as the local acquirer.

 Last night, some of the most influential fintech companies gathered at the InterContinental Hotel – The O2 to celebrate this year’s movers and shakers at the 12th annual Emerging Payments Awards.

This year alone, the UK’s fintech sector attracted an impressive total of 123 deals, worth a record $2.9 billion – London even topped New York, coming out $200 million ahead on total deal value. This success is not just due to a buoyant market, but a commitment to ingenuity within the sector which the EPA shines a spotlight on.

BNP Paribas Personal Finance in Spain, turns to GBG, global identity data specialist, across its commercial brand, Cetelem, to detect and prevent fraud for online customers. 

With over 27 million individual customers worldwide, the organisation requires sophisticated technology that can read and act upon data quickly, in order to detect fraud and deliver the frictionless banking experience its customers are accustomed to.

When corporates adopt anarchist technology

Cryptocurrencies inspire a kind of quasi-religious fervour among their advocates. For true crypto-anarchists the invention of Bitcoin in 2008 paved the way to a world without central authorities and rent-seeking intermediaries.

It wasn’t long before those rent-seeking intermediaries of the financial world mounted an attempt to co-opt the radical new technology for themselves. It became trendy for executives to say that it wasn’t about Bitcoin, but the underlying technology: the blockchain.