Finastra today announced the first public hackathon on its FusionFabric.cloud open development platform, underpinned by Microsoft Azure. The FusionONE Hackathon will take place over the weekend of May 17-19 in London. Teams from banks, Fintechs, integrators and independent developers are invited to join the event and create innovations grounded in Open Banking.

A new report launched today by strategy advisors Arkwright and commissioned by Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity solutions, examines the success of digital identity in the Nordics, and explores how other countries can learn from this model.

Exscudo is proud to announce that we have added support for direct currency exchange in the Channels App. Our clients are already able to exchange EON, BTC and ETH while support of direct exchange of TUSD, OMG, LTC, DASH, QTUM, ZEC, CTKT, EURT, USDT, XMR and EUR will be added shortly. The new feature allows users to exchange currencies without having to move their funds out of our wallet app while benefiting from low fees, previously available only in traditional banks.

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This year, London will be home to just as many fintech ‘unicorns’ as current global leader San Francisco – according to a new report from global recruiter Robert Walters and market analysis experts Vacancy Soft.

Leading the industry with solutions protecting mobile financial services offerings, NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, was chosen by Varo Money, Inc. a leading all-mobile banking company to implement its financial crime strategy for anti-money laundering protections including AML/KYC requirements, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring capabilities.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solutions provider, and part of RELX, has announced the appointment of Steve Elliot as Managing Director of its UK Business Services business unit.

Steve joins LexisNexis Risk Solutions from resourcing and consultancy firm Huntswood, where he also served as managing director. He has 25 years’ experience providing financial crime and payment solutions to clients across financial services, gaming, utilities and payment firms.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, today announced that 

Assetz Capital is kicking off the new ISA season by boosting returns for new and existing investors with up to 2% cashback on all new investments. Terms and conditions apply.

To benefit from the cashback offer, users simply have to lend new funds through any of the peer-to-peer business lender’s investment accounts between 6^th April and 31^st May 2019.