In the last two years, technologists and storytellers have struggled to explain blockchain in simple terms that everyone can understand.  At its core, blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions.  Just like bookkeepers once used bound, paper based ledgers to log transactions and reconcile accounts.

ION, the largest global provider of trading, analytics and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities and treasury management, announces that its customer, the global logistics leader United Parcel Service (UPS), is winner of the 2018 EuroFinance Treasury Excellence Award for Technology Implementation.

The annual EuroFinance Awards recognize companies that have applied new technology successfully to a core treasury problem, and delivered genuine value to the business through innovation.

Technology, data and analytics firm, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, which is a part of RELX Group, was recognised as the category leader for Financial Crime (data) in Chartis Research’s RiskTech100® study of the leading global risk technology providers. LexisNexis Risk Solutions jumped 11 spots in the ranking this year to number 16.

Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, concluded its inaugural CECL Transition Workshop series this month. Sageworks hosted seven workshops throughout the country in 2018 to help financial institutions transition to the FASB’s current expected credit loss (CECL) accounting standard.

Leave the do-it-yourself projects at home and make way for do-it-together.

While do-it-yourself may have worked previously, Mastercard believes the best way to drive scale and unlock new opportunities for businesses large and small is through collaboration – the answers to the questions surrounding today’s connected and complicated world aren’t found in one place.

Besides, who’s going to read you the directions when you’re holding the nail and hammer?

Bullionist Technology (a Singapore fintech company) announced that it has developed "ELUME," a digital platform on the IBM Blockchain Platform and targeted at the bullion market supply chain. The platform aims to promote transparency, authenticity and true ownership of bullion assets through the use of blockchain technology.

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has been named Collateral Platform Provider of the Year in the Custody Risk Global Awards 2018. The awards ceremony took place last night in London following decisions by a judging panel of industry experts assembled by Custody Risk.

Mobey Day, the annual flagship event of global industry association Mobey Forum, is this year titled ‘The Next Challenge: Engagement’. It will explore the various elements required to effectively engage consumers through digital services, with delegates learning from the success stories of industry leaders such as Alipay and Klarna. 

Kaleido, a ConsenSys company, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, is helping enterprises break through the proof-of-concept stage to live production blockchain networks with the announcement of its next major step forward. The newly launched Kaleido Marketplace extends its Blockchain Business Cloud to become the first full-stack enterprise platform available today. The new marketplace includes trusted tools and services from Kaleido, AWS, and members of the new partnership program, all offered as plug-and-play.