The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading industry association for the blockchain ecosystem, has partnered with the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), a financial hub in Nur-Sultan, to bring its signature event series Blockchain Central to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 27 – 28 June 2019. 

Recent Blockchain Central events have been hosted in Davos, Switzerland alongside the World Economic Forum, in Perth Australia during West Tech Fest, and during the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York in partnership with the Concordia Summit.

G20 leaders must take decisive steps towards a multilateral cryptocurrency regulatory framework – failure to do so would be negligent.

This is the bold message from the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations.

Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, is speaking ahead of the G20 summit taking place in Osaka, Japan, this week.

UK organisations are failing to make progress towards strong cybersecurity and are facing paralysis as cybercriminals become more advanced. This is the conclusion drawn from the findings of the 2019 Risk:Value report – ‘Destination standstill. Are you asleep at the wheel?’ – from NTT Security, the specialised security company and centre of excellence in security for NTT Group.

Mambu and Salt Edge have announced a collaboration that will help more financial institutions become PSD2 compliant. The aim is to enable innovation in the banking industry and bring open banking one step closer to end-customers.

KAS BANK, the specialist provider of securities services to the UK pension industry, has expanded its growing business development team with the appointment of Henry Crofton as business development manager.

Henry has a wealth of experience within the financial services industry, focussing in both institutional and private client sectors. Prior to joining KAS BANK, he has worked as institutional relationships manager at London & Capital and as institutional sales executive at SEI Investments (Europe) Ltd.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. and Northern Trust have reached an agreement for Northern Trust to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing to Broadridge, marking a significant step toward delivering an industry-wide PE blockchain solution.

GoCardless, a global leader in recurring payments, has today released research into consumer attitudes around security and convenience when buying online. The findings reveal that UK consumers are torn between valuing convenience and security when making purchases online – but they value “speed and ease of payment” more than their European counterparts.

Global analytic software firm FICO was part of a team that won the Outstanding Business Impact Catalyst award from the industry association TM Forum, for a project aimed at assessing an applicant’s credit risk or the likelihood that a service application is fraudulent.

Cyber security provider F-Secure is creating a new unit dedicated to building on the company’s tradition of providing the best protection in the industry. The new team, called the Tactical Defense Unit, comprises of researchers and analysts responsible for operationalizing holistic protection strategies that ensure F-Secure’s award-winning products and services evolve faster than the threats facing people and organizations.