Data Protection World Forum is delighted to announce that the latest instalment of Data Protection Magazine now free to view online.

Issue three features an exclusive Q&A with data privacy activist and noyb.eu co-founder Max Schrems; Brexit / data privacy analysis from Ivana Bartoletti, Head of Data Privacy at Gemserv; many more features, exclusive articles and discussion from industry leaders.

Ten months on from GDPR’s implementation, we look at the laws’ achievements and how they are influencing policy worldwide.

Reference is made to the joint press release by Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) and Gemalto (Euronext Amsterdam and Paris: GTO) dated 27 March 2018 in relation to the launch of the recommended all-cash offer by Thales for all the issued and outstanding shares of Gemalto (the Offer), the publication of the Offer Document, and the joint press release of Thales and Gemalto dated 14 March 2019 in relation to the Acceptance Closing Time. 

Terms not defined in this press release will have the meaning set forth in the Offer Document.

Advances in technology are transforming the financial sector, and Qatar is right on the pulse, as Professor Roberto Di Pietro and Doctor David Yang of the College of Science and Engineering at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University reveal

Financial services have been practised for thousands of years, but the application of technology to those services is still rather new because until recently the industry has been relatively untouched by innovation.

Leading Canadian insurers to share strategies for exceeding customer expectations in exclusive webinar, April 3^rd, 10am CDT

Cappitech, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the launch of Insights, a product that enables compliance teams and risk managers to gain a competitive advantage by improving regulatory reporting and allowing them to benchmark their performance to their peers. 

Linedata (Euronext Paris: LIN), a global provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, announced an agreement with ICE Data Services to provide a broad set of high-quality data and analytics to Linedata’s clients on the occasion of its Linedata Exchange industry conference in New York today.

Linedata’s strategy of combining technology, services, and data takes a significant step forward with this addition of comprehensive data and analytics from ICE Data Services.

Ahead of the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT on 1 April Androulla Soteri, tax director at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, says MTD could be far too costly for small businesses and the only consolation is that the deadline is further away than you think. 

BEQUANT, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, announced today that it has hired Daniel Clayden as its new Head of Product Development. With 25 years’ experience in Capital Markets and Financial Services Technology, Daniel’s appointment will strengthen the company’s growing roster of products in the cryptocurrency market. Daniel has previously held roles at a number of Tier 1 Investment Banks, including J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse. Before joining BEQUANT, he was Managing Director at IT Consultancy Levvel.io, and an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley.

Commerzbank and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) have today announced that they have – for the first time – successfully executed the necessary data transfers to complete two commercial transactions via blockchain-based trade finance network Marco Polo.