More than 600 delegates attended the inaugural HashKey International Digital Asset Summit 2019 (HIDA2019) to hear leading experts discuss how blockchain technology is beginning to transform how we work, live and play in the same way that widespread adoption of the internet changed the world. 

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchain to the worlds of market data and reference data has not received that much attention.

It’s difficult to predict the extent to which this emerging technology will impact the financial industry. Advocates of cryptocurrencies will tell you the disruption has already happened.

• Firms in China and South-east Asia are more confident than those in Europe to deal with potentially stricter rules around consumer-data gathering and use; the US leads both regions
• Asian companies may be ahead of the ethics curve: companies in China and South-east Asia are more likely to tie data-privacy practices to good corporate governance than those in the West
• This comes amid the increasing importance of data privacy to organisations today—it will be even more important in future, according to EIU survey

Chase is launching Chase Secure Banking, a low cost checking account in order to provide access a traditional banking relationship for more consumers around the country, including those new to banking or who have had trouble getting or keeping an account in the past.

EquiLend Limited, the Dublin-based business of global securities finance technology provider EquiLend was approved by The Central Bank of Ireland to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in Ireland.

The launch of the Irish MTF—EquiLend’s NGT securities finance trading platform—will allow European Union-based clients to continue trading on the platform without interruption post-Brexit.

The Irish MTF will operate alongside EquiLend’s existing U.K. MTF, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the U.K.

Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced Nuance’s biometrics-based Security Suite saved organizations more than $1 billion in total fraud costs in 2018 while enabling an easier, frictionless way for customers to validate their identities and access service.

Kofax, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software to automate and digitally transform enterprise business processes, announces the availability of Kofax Robotic Process Automation (RPA) 10.4, the latest version of the Kofax RPA solution that now includes Automatic Process Discovery and Robotic Lifecycle Management with Git (an open source version-control system for tracking programing changes). 

Making Tax Digital (MTD), the HMRC initiative that requires UK businesses to submit their tax returns and payments online while also keeping digital records of their taxes, becomes mandatory from 1st April 2019 with businesses required to submit from a list of HMRC compliant software (of which NetSuite is one) or an API-enabled spreadsheet.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Pzena Investment Management, LLC, a $37 billion equity manager based in New York has signed for its Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution.

Solactive is pleased to announce that internationally renowned cryptocurrency information and data provider CoinMarketCap (CMC) joined forces with the German index provider to create new Cryptocurrency Benchmark Indices, labeled: CMC Crypto 200 Index – powered by Solactive.