FinecoBank has today announced the addition of the Canadian Stock Exchange to its extensive portfolio of stock options.  This means traders and investors can now access to an additional 250 shares and over 600 ETFs available on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) via Fineco’s online trading platform.  The move bolsters Fineco’s existing offer of 26 international stock markets, giving it one of the most comprehensive range of stocks, ETFs and bonds available on any platform.

Mizrahi-Tefahot has chosen Temenos T24 Transact from Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, to replace its capital market systems. Temenos is the leader in banking software with more than 3,000 banks in over 150 countries relying on Temenos for their technology needs. 

Temenos T24 Transact will replace the core system currently used by the bank for its activity in Israeli and foreign securities and will interface with trading systems, the bank’s core systems, direct channels, branches and all entities with which the bank operates.

Insurwave, a joint venture between EY and Guardtime, has partnered with Xceptor to facilitate the digitisation and automation of the insurance market. Insurwave is the world’s first marine insurance blockchain platform and the partnership will digitise the wide variety of insurance documents, building out an extensive digital library of insurance documents to enable the automation of downstream processes.

Kantox, a leader in foreign exchange (FX) management solutions, has partnered with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, to offer cutting-edge FX management software to SVB’s corporate clients across the United Kingdom.

Templum Inc., a leading innovative financial technology company providing a marketplace for the primary issuance and secondary trading of alternative assets as smart securities, has appointed former AlphaPoint, TradingScreen, Lava Trading, and Bloomberg executive Brian Nadzan as Chief Technology Officer.

In this new role, Brian’s global expertise at some of the most successful financial services technology firms will be integral in driving Templum’s continuing efforts to create efficiency and liquidity in the private markets. 

 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.