Preliminary guidelines on crypto assets and money laundering issued by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could be a tipping point for the crypto industry.

From June 2019, crypto products and their service providers will be required to register or obtain a license from the relevant authorities. They will also be required to establish effective monitoring systems for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and they must hold and make available to authorities, accurate information on both buyers and sellers of crypto assets.

Target Group, the business process outsourcing (BPO) and operational transformation provider, is pleased to announce it has closed its mean gender pay gap by 4.8 percentage points to 22.5%, considerably below the finance and insurance average of 33.4%.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today unveiled the findings of its 2019 Digital Sales in Banking Report. The report, now in its fourth year, compares the digital account opening capabilities of 60 large and representative mid-size banks in North America, Europe and Australia, measuring both the breadth of offerings and the quality of the customer journey.

Banks arriving at the digital promised land

It’s the topic we love to hate. Most of us are sick of hearing about Brexit but, at the same time, we want/need to know what May be going on (a fitting name for the PM to have during this era of uncertainty). And it certainly feels like a long time since the referendum results shook the nation in 2016…

Now, there are mere days until it’s the original deadline. So, what’s next on the agenda? How are asset managers coping? Is 22^nd May the new 29^th March? These are all questions we delve into below.

There’s a reason why #palemalestale was trending on Twitter – and not in a good way. Back in 2018, we looked at why gender equality in asset management wasn’t bad, but not particularly good either:

Fenixera is a global debt recovery platform tool designed to protect people from having to write-off international debt. Based in Norway, their account software enables users to check people’s credit and payment history (including crypto-assets) regardless of where they live. With 140K USD already invested in the project, Fenixera makes it easier to collect invoices, manage accounts and maintain a healthy credit score. Authorised accountants in Norway will be on-hand to provide support.

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced new and enhanced capabilities for the TIBCO® Connected Intelligence Cloud platform at the TIBCO NOW™ Global Tour 2019 event in Singapore.

Barclays announces the ten companies that will join the 2019 Tel Aviv Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars class.

More than half of all UK consumers have at least one bank account they no longer use, but have not yet closed. The research, commissioned by CREALOGIX, found that banking customers are also increasingly opening new accounts with challenger banks because they offer personalised features that consumers are looking for.