IFN Oman Forum is set to return to Grand Millennium Muscat on the 12th March 2019 to welcome industry professionals.

Organized by REDmoney events, IFN Oman Forum will once again bring together a lineup of speakers comprising senior industry players, decision-makers and regulators to explore the exciting Shariah finance opportunities the country has to offer, discuss the biggest market trends and debate hard-hitting topics.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that its best-in-class OTC derivatives valuation data is available to financial institutions for best execution compliance. The time-stamped valuation data can help firms monitor intraday and historic transaction costs across interest rate, equity, FX, credit, commodity and structured product OTC derivatives.

We are pleased to announce that OpenFin won the ‘Fintech Innovation Award’ at the 2019 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards held at this year’s TradingTech Summit in London on the 27th February. 

The Derivatives Service Bureau, founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs), for OTC derivatives, has today announced that it is conducting a User Survey as well as establishing a group-wide Agreement Forum as part of 2019 industry consultation milestones.

Pay.UK is the new home for Bacs, Faster Payments, and Cheque and Credit Clearing and, as of today (1 March) it is also the formal home of their people, a skilled team with a wealth of experience across the UK’s complex payments industry.

With the 1 April deadline for the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT fast approaching, Alison Horner, partner and Head of VAT at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, gives her top tips on how to survive the new system:

A staggering 75 per cent of consumers would not know what to do if they fell victim to cybercrime. According to the Affinion Cybercrime SOS report, despite high levels of concern and awareness, there is widespread confusion about where the lines of responsibility fall and who to turn to.

The People’s Bank of Zanzibar (PBZ), a state-owned and one of the oldest commercial banks in Tanzania, has successfully deployed and gone live on