Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Australia  to further support its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

Copper, the London-based custodian for digital assets, has expanded its Walled Garden infrastructure and is now connected to the top 15 exchanges – including: Coinbase,  Deribit, OKEx, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Huobi, Binance, Bitmex, Kraken, Bittrex and HitBTC. This gives Copper’s institutional customers access to a larger liquidity pool as the company’s trade and settlement volumes continue to increase 50% month-on-month.

JGOO, the next generation mobile payments platform, says many UK retailers are failing to break into the Chinese market because they don’t acknowledge its huge scale and localise their propositions accordingly. Further, it says that many companies don’t understand the country’s strict censorship arrangements or adapt to the unique shopping habits of Chinese consumers.    

The European Central Bank has welcomed an initiative by some of Europe's top banks to explore the development of a rival payment system to challenge the dominance of Visa and Mastercard and the threat from Chinese and US Big Tech firms

Alchemy Global Payment Solutions Limited ("Alchemy"), a global cryptocurrency payment pioneer that powers businesses with Asia's first hybrid cryptocurrency and fiat payment solutions ("Hybrid Payment Solution"), has partnered with Tokyo-based ACD Inc. (a Joint-Venture Group Company of ANA Holdings, TSE:9202) ("ACD"), a company that provides cross-border e-commerce and global air cargo delivery, logistic services in Japan, to enable ACD tokens at both online and offline merchant networks of ACD and QFPay in Japan and across Asia.

 Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Solutions business has launched Online Applications for Consumer Lending (CLA), a digital offering that enhances the online loan origination capabilities of U.S. community banks and credit unions. CLA allows consumers to begin a loan application from any digital device, at any time. It integrates seamlessly with Wolters Kluwer’s ComplianceOne® solution, an industry-leading loan documentation and processing system that helps lenders optimize their lending and document preparation processes in a secure, fast and cost-effective manner.

London-based Regtech firm Napier, specialists in AI for compliance and AML, announced today that it has been recognised in the 2020 edition of the annual RegTech 100 list of the world’s most innovative RegTech companies.

The RegTech 100 list acknowledges companies for their innovative use of technology to solve a significant industry problem, or to generate cost savings or efficiency improvements across the compliance function.

Financial IT chatted with Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap about the company, challenges and trends of the industry.

Financial IT: Just to start off we would love to hear about BlueSnap and your career path that brought you to joining the BlueSnap?