• Record number of participants in Bybit's World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2021 drove up total prize pool to a historic $4.09 million, up from last year's $1.27 million
• 매억남 secured No.1 title as captain of top troop 유튜브매억남 with a staggering 2,044.90% P&L, followed by 금융인 강은호 (1,774.84% P&L) and PepeCup Army (1,417.15% P&L)
• A star-studded cast from the esports world: gaming legends from four elite esports clubs dabbled in competitive crypto trading

PRNewswire/ -- Investment Control Systems (ICS) today announced that Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) the UK's largest digital wealth management service has selected ICS as their partner for investment data management, analysis and reporting.

Following a rigorous vendor evaluation and peer-review which commenced in early 2021, HL with assets under management in excess of US$185B and 1.645 million clients will be looking to extract business value from the ATHENA platform kicking off the project immediately.

Jeff Dworin has been appointed Sales Executive, Americas at United Fintech, the rapidly growing firm launched by Christian Frahm to help banks, hedge funds and asset managers to accelerate their transition to a digital world through access to fintechs specializing in capital markets.

Jeff Dworin joins United Fintech from State Street where he worked for over five years in New York and Boston, latterly as Assistant Vice President, FX Connect Sales & Relationship Management. His career also includes business consultancy and sales roles at Eze Software Group, and FXCM.

Cabital, a leading digital assets institution, today announces that it has added the European Union’s Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) to its growing list of payment methods, enabling customers to seamlessly change between euros and cryptocurrencies and generate high-yield passive income. 

Finalto takes the complexity out of Non-Deliverable Forwards with a revolutionary NDF offer that does away with the product’s associated issues, providing a streamlined forex solution that can slot smoothly into any existing infrastructure.

For too long, clients have struggled with the complexities NDF pose, with problems cropping up trying to trade NDFs vs spots that stop trades dead, problems like:

Global brokerages are facing an increasingly competitive environment, with the exponential rise in retail trading interest during the pandemic. On the other hand, thousands of retail investors entering the market is attracting the scrutiny of regulatory bodies. Regulators are especially concerned regarding misinformation, and risky trading practices. In the United States, a change in political leanings has made data transparency, listing rules, and tax issues gain prominence for financial market participants.

Fast-growing European trading and investing platform appoints former Exness Asia head, Chul Lim, as regional CEO; selects Singapore as its headquarters 

• New research from Tink finds over one in three (37%) financial executives expect their institutions to take more than a decade to complete their open banking objectives
• While a further 40% expect to take 5-10 years to fulfil their open banking objectives
• Despite this, positive sentiment towards open banking rises from 55% in 2019 to 71% in 2021 as executives take advantage of its commercial potential and recognise its strategic importance

 FintechOS Leap, the free banking and insurance event from FintechOS, a global technology provider for banks, insurers, credit unions and other financial services companies, will be taking place between 2^nd – 3^rd November 2021.

• Russia, Germany, Portugal and Sweden are projected to grow the fastest for mobile payment transactions in Europe by 2025, comprising four of the ten fastest countries globally.
• Despite rapid growth in mobile transactions, Europe lags behind emerging markets when it comes to mobile wallets. Africa and The Middle East and Latin America are the two markets set to grow most significantly by 2025 with seven of the top 10 fastest growing countries for mobile wallet purchases hailing from these regions.