The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is delighted to announce that 22 students have received the CISI 2021 Educational Trust Awards.

The CISI Educational Trust Awards annually celebrate achievement amongst students studying CISI accredited courses around the UK, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The winners received a combined total of £14,000.

Synechron Inc., a leading digital transformation consulting firm focused exclusively on the financial services industry, today announced its new partnership with 

In order to meet the needs of digital society for convenient and efficient gold trading, ACU Digital Limited recently launched ACUG token, combining traditional gold trading with blockchain. ACUG has an asset investment method which is anchored by physical gold and realized by blockchain technology. According to the recently released "Research Report on Current Situation Analysis and Investment Strategy of China's Gold Trial Production from 2020 to 2026", China's gold investment market has obviously recovered.

Shield is proud to announce it has been named on The Financial Technologist ‘Most Influential Financial Technology Companies 2021’ list, the third time in a row that it has been recognised.

Colt Technology Services, a leading provider of global high bandwidth connectivity solutions, and IBM [NYSE:IBM] today announced an extension of their existing partnership to include IBM Cloud Satellite on the Colt edge platform. 

Leading pan-African fintech company, Accelerex Ghana (www.GlobalAccelerex.com.gh), has hit a new milestone, after being granted an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence from the Bank of Ghana (BoG), under the Payment Systems and Services Act, 2019 (Act 987). This makes Accelerex Ghana the only fintech organization currently within the enhanced PSP category that provides physical e-payment devices, merchant acquiring, and agency banking solutions in Ghana.

Abu Dhabi and London, March 30, 2021 - Buna, the cross-border and multi-currency payment system owned by the Arab Monetary Fund, has announced that it has plans to launch instant payments, in addition to trade finance solutions, securities settlement and ATM/ POS processing service, at a later stage. This growing list of innovative solutions will complement Buna’s current offering of multi-currency cross-border interbank payments, commercial payments, and consumer remittances.

Data-stealing ransomware attacks, information harvesting malware, and supply chain attacks are among the critical threats to organizations highlighted in an attack landscape update published today by cyber security provider F-Secure.  

New research has revealed that the majority of financial services businesses are still failing to take effective action to improve their diversity and inclusion, despite growing awareness of diversity issues across the sector.