Financial IT catches up with Kevin Dearing, Product Director, Bank of APIs at NatWest at PAY360 Conference to discuss the importance of digital ID for achieving inclusive growth.

Hashdex, a leading global crypto-focused asset manager, today announced the launch of its Staking Program for all non-bitcoin funds and ETFs in The Cayman Islands, Brazil and Chile. Investors in eligible funds will benefit from staking awards to achieve higher returns, either through partial or full compensation of the management fee.

Clearwater Analytics, a leading provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, today announced that Scott Erickson has been appointed as the Company’s first Chief Revenue Officer. He will now oversee Clearwater’s sales efforts in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. With an 18-year track record of driving Clearwater’s growth including roles in services, product strategy, and sales, Erickson will continue to lead the Company’s market share expansion, now across all regions. 

Rego Payment Architectures, Inc. (“REGO”), the only COPPA-certified and GDPR-compliant provider of a white-label family digital wallet platform for financial institutions, announced today that it has secured a critical banking partnership as well as raised approximately $100M funding to continue delivering its integrated banking solutions. 

Crypto derivatives market participants are set to increase their use of third-party trading technology as the quality and sophistication of the products on offer continues to increase, a newly published study by Acuiti has found.

The whitepaper Changing Approaches to Crypto Trading Technology is based on a survey conducted in Q4 2022 of Acuiti’s Crypto Derivatives Expert Network and is published today in partnership with Trading Technologies, a global capital markets technology platform provider.

iDenfy, a global RegTech startup offering ID verification, compliance, and fraud prevention tools, announced partnering with Dialics, a PPC tracking and real-time marketing analytics software. iDenfy’s full-stack identity verification solution will help speed up the sign-up and verification process for Dialics customers. 

Gatehouse Bank has been named the ‘Best Islamic Bank in the United Kingdom’ and the ‘Most Innovative Bank in the United Kingdom’.  

The Shariah-compliant challenger Bank was given the accolades by the international media group, Islamic Finance News (IFN), following a record number of votes in its most recent Best Banks Poll – Country, which honours outstanding Islamic banks in key financial markets. 

Wolters Kluwer, the Dutch technology company, has launched a new financial tech solution that it says will help multinational companies collect, align, calculate and report integrated finance and tax data in accordance with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Pillar Two tax requirements. The CCH Tagetik solution will also help CFOs better understand how Pillar Two regulations will impact their business model and operations.

Wise, the company building the best way to move and manage money around the world, has announced a collaboration with Interactive Brokers (IBKR), an automated global electronic broker. Interactive Brokers has integrated Wise to allow clients a simple and seamless experience when making deposits in their trading accounts.

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