As we approach the six-month mark of the Department of Labor’s final ruling on fiduciary care within wealth management, it’s worth looking at where, legally speaking, the piece stands, how affected parties are responding, and which specific points offer the most complexity in terms of compliance.

Legal Challenges

The SWIFT Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community.

Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading accelerator focused on financial innovation announced today that RailsBank, a startup founded by Nigel Verdon and Clive Mitchell, will be joining their 2016 London Cohort as Startup in Residence.

MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, announces the expansion of support for its all-to-all trading marketplace, Open Trading™, during Asia local hours.

Multifonds, the leader in single-platform, multi-jurisdictional investment fund software, has today announced the appointment of Keith Hale as its new CEO.

Risk Focus, Inc., the leading provider of control and compliance solutions for regulatory trade and transaction reporting to the global capital markets, today announced the first implementation of 

KEMP Technologies today announced that it has been included in the Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) for the fourth consecutive year and positioned as a Visionary for the second year running. KEMP was also recognised in the inaugural release of Gartner Critical Capabilities research for the ADC market, which enables enterprises to fine-tune their vendor selections according to specific deployment types and use case criterion. 

 Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announces a major expansion of its industry-leading SafeNet data protection portfolio that makes it easier for enterprises to protect big data deployments in the cloud, data center, and virtualized environments.