Scality® today introduced ARTESCA, the lightweight, true enterprise-grade, cloud-native object storage solution designed for the needs of the Kubernetes era. ARTESCA’s modern approach, built on Scality’s 10 years of experience serving the most demanding enterprises on the planet, delivers the speed and reliability required by emerging workloads.

Diginex Limited (Nasdaq: EQOS), a digital assets financial services company, announced today that it has entered into strategic partnerships with algorithmic trading firm Kronos Research, and institutional liquidity provider Parallel.

As part of the partnerships, both Kronos and Parallel will serve as liquidity providers on EQUOS, the cryptocurrency exchange platform of Diginex, and become shareholders in Diginex. Fees paid by both partners will also secure them EQO, the unique exchange token of EQUOS.

B-cube.ai, a platform offering AI-driven bots for crypto trading, announces its partnership with Sumsub, an identity verification platform that covers KYC/KYB/AML needs. With this collaboration, B-cube.ai aims to secure investment with bank-grade KYC and accurate crypto monitoring technology.

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) for enterprise productivity, today announced the launch of OpenFin Workspace, a revolutionary product that accelerates the vision of a truly open ecosystem within the financial industry. OpenFin is now being used by 90% of global financial institutions and deploys more than 3,500 apps across 300,000 desktops.

Global FinTech Paysend today announced a collaboration with Plaid, a leading open finance platform and financial data network, to provide customers with a more streamlined experience in connecting and transacting from their bank accounts to Paysend’s money transfer app.

Iliad Solutions, a global leader in payments testing, is pleased to announce that Len Meyers has joined its team as Senior Business Development Manager – Americas. Meyers has 24 years’ experience building B2B relationships in the Commercial and Governmental markets, the last three years with FIS. 

Research conducted by the Consulting Services team at BSI has revealed that some organizations are struggling with the current data protection landscape, with many data transfers impacted by the UK’s exit from Europe and the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield framework last year. With information resilience and cybersecurity being a top priority for many organizations in 2021 as remote working continues, staying alert to the evolving data compliance landscape is essential.

UK - EU data transfers post-Brexit

e-learning platforms have seen a breakthrough since the Pandemic. Social distancing and lockdown have resulted in shutting down schools, colleges, and universities. Many businesses have also shifted their work at home. As a result, education and learning is undertaken remotely over digital platforms. It became a benediction to bring out positivity in people in those uncertain times.

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, announced today that Martin Heraghty has joined the firm as Sales Director for the DACH region in Europe, comprising Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Central Europe. He has over 20 years of relevant experience, including more than 15 years selling trading technology solutions.

Global payments service provider SumUp (www.sumup.co.uk) is today announcing the appointment of its new CTO, with Visual Meta Co-Founder and former CTO, Johannes Schaback, taking up the role as of May 1st.