As part of their latest project, MTN, the top African telecoms operator is preparing to apply for a mobile banking license in Nigeria. This is the latest push by the Nigerian central bank to increase access to basic financial services.[1] 

Singapore-based community cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptology Exchange today launches a new functionality that allows users to trade cryptocurrency on margin – letting experienced traders execute trades with borrowed money. 

Saxo Bank, the leading Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, launches a new user-friendly and simpler platform tailored to the growing segment of investors.

Today, Saxo Bank launches SaxoInvestor, a new platform that gives the growing investor segment the opportunity to build long-term portfolios across stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and SaxoSelect portfolios.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and terrorism prevention are key questions in modern finance. Most such policies are determined on a governmental or even international level. A company’s failure to comply with AML regulations may result in hefty fines and loss of credibility. In order to prevent such incidents the banks form their customer relationship policies based on Know Your Customer (KYC) principles.

KYC is based on client personal data collection and it allows to:

Specialist research firm RegTech Analyst has just named Eventus Systems, Inc., a provider of regulatory technology software solutions for the capital markets, to its global RegTech 100 list for 2019, recognizing the pioneering companies transforming compliance, risk management and cybersecurity. 

European investors are waiting hopefully for further progress in the US-China trade dispute to happen after some positive developments have occurred along this avenue. On the negative side, markets will continue to face pressures due to Brexit uncertainties and Italy’s next-year’s budget issues that have still not been fully resolved, financial scouts note.

Integral (www.integral.com), the technology partner trusted by leading banks, brokers, and asset managers to help them outperform their competition in the foreign exchange market, today announced a partnership with Moscow Exchange (MOEX), the largest worldwide RUB FX electronic trading venue. Through its Open Currency Exchange^TM (OCX), Integral will deliver access to better liquidity, higher performance, and lower latency to MOEX customers, and MOEX will now provide liquidity to the Integral network.

The mass adoption of cryptocurrency is a step closer today, following the launch of IvyPay, a platform built by blockchain-based tech company, Ivy, in partnership with cryptocurrency broker service, HiveEx.com