Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced the opening of its Frankfurt office, headed by Tim Bruenjes. After recently completing its Series B funding round, led by top-tier venture firm Sequoia Capital, Smartkarma looks to fast-track its growth across Continental Europe offering the MiFID II compliant research network of over 400 independent research providers.

Finastra has been named ‘best payment solutions provider’ by Global Finance, as part of the publication’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Banks and Providers for 2018, announced in the March issue of the magazine.

Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced the opening of its Frankfurt office, headed by Tim Bruenjes. After recently completing its Series B funding round, led by top-tier venture firm Sequoia Capital, Smartkarma looks to fast-track its growth across Continental Europe offering the MiFID II compliant research network of over 400 independent research providers.

Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech Mexico City, the first innovation program for growth stage startups in Latin America, announces the five FinTech startups chosen to be part of its first program, based in Mexico City. The program is run in partnership between Startupbootcamp FinTech and Finnovista, the leading champion of FinTech innovation in Latin America.

 Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, believes that the implementation of PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) offers European banks a unique opportunity to deliver digital innovation, robust protection and seamless user experience that will be critical in a new era of open markets.

London, Singapore: Finantix, global provider of enterprise solutions in WealthTech, InsurTech and RegTech, is proud to announce its acquisition of smartfolios, the creators of quant-enabled investment tools that support all the key stages of the digital advisory value chain.

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published the results of a recent survey of global asset management firms that explores how MiFID II impacts the role of technology in trading corporate bonds. According to the study, titled ‘Future Tech—Trading Bonds Post MiFID II’, 86% of respondent firms had technology in place to comply with the MiFID II European regulation implementation date. This is still a work in progress, however, with 86% of firms currently in the process of re-configuring workflows and 68% improving data collection.

The online parcel delivery expert ParcelHero says Chancellor Philip Hammond’s proposal to tax digital businesses’ revenues rather than profits in his Spring Statement this week puts Britain at odds with other countries’ taxation rules; and his crackdown on online sellers avoiding VAT could also open a can of worms.