FINMA granted the request submitted by SIX for the CO:RE trading platform to be recognized as a multilateral trading facility. This represents a further milestone for SIX in its implementation of the regulatory requirements relating to the Swiss value chain with a view to making it easier for international participants to enter the market. 

Today IHS Markit, a global leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, announced the addition of new functions to its Know Your Third Party Risk Management platform (KY3P) to further develop its rapidly growing customer base. 

More and more, the devices we buy are talking to one another. Consumer and industrial original electronics manufacturers (OEMs) alike are building ‘smart’ devices that are connected to the internet. From devices that we wear, to those in the cars that we drive, in our homes and the buildings we work in, all the way to smart cities. They are all talking. It’s predicted there will be 50 billion connected devices worldwide in 2020, so that’s a lot of talk!     

Today B3 is born to provide the best financial market infrastructure that is complemented by a wide range of products and services. It results from alliance of BM&FBOVESPA, one of the largest exchanges in the world in terms of market capitalization, and CETIP, the largest depository for private sector debt securities in Latin America. Together, BM&FBOVESPA and CETIP become a company that is far more than the sum of its parts, with substantial benefits for clients and business partners. B3 is better suited for facing a dynamic, challenging and globally competitive market.

As corporate tax is set to drop on April 1st from 20% to 19%, the lowest rate in the G20, change is coming to the UK market.

Citigroup Pty Limited has to pay approximately $5 million to around 230,000 customers, for failing to properly disclose that credit card international transaction fees apply to Australian dollar transactions where the merchant uses an entity based overseas to process its transactions.

ATB Financial has joined forces with KPMG in Canada and global fintech matchmaking firm, Matchi to run a Customer Onboarding Innovation Challenge that aims to reimagine customer onboarding and management through collaboration with fintech firms. 

Otherwise, France’s first peer-to-peer insurance platform, renovates insurance, followed by launches of the first P2P health insurance product digital, fair and community-driven.

Custom Connect, one of the world’s few independent carrier neutral connectivity providers, is going beyond industry standards to offer global enterprises greater insight into their far-reaching networks and business-critical applications.

CC Insight launched today at the Connecting the Cloud event, an Industry get together for leading players in the European cloud arena, organised by Custom Connect in cooperation with Equinix, Fuze, Huawei, IPKnowledge, NetDialog and RIPE NCC.    

As new Accenture research demostartes Artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) now comprise almost half of total investment in insurance technology (insurtech) startups worldwide. The research, which includes new analysis of CB Insights data on 450 insurtech deals over the last three years, appears in a new Accenture report titled “The Rise of InsurTech.” The report was released today in conjunction with Accenture’s Fintech Innovation Lab in London, which for the first time includes a dedicated insurtech stream comprising leading industry startups.