SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Rob Bernstein as its new Chief Financial Officer, effective from February 3, 2020.

Rob was most recently CFO at RegTek Solutions, which was acquired by Bloomberg in August 2019, and prior to that CFO at TIM Group.

Throughout his career, Rob has successfully led both organic and acquisition growth strategies and debt and equity financing, executing on three trade sales of tech-enabled fast growth businesses: a telecommunications business and more recently, RegTek Solutions and TIM Group.

Planixs, the leading provider of real time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, today announced an award-winning UK-based bank has implemented Planixs Realiti Essentials in record time to ensure BCBS248 compliance and manage its liquidity.

Unique global alternative legal and compliance services provider, Konexo, a division of Eversheds Sutherland, has forged an innovative and strategic collaboration with leading business and financial adviser Grant Thornton UK LLP and DXC Technology to provide an integrated solution to the Interbank Offered Rates (IBOR) transition. 

The evolving IBOR transition is amongst the most critical business, risk, legal and market driven change programs financial services companies will face over the next two years.

Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)-accredited Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issuer, Ubisecure, today announced a new LEI-based Pilot via its RapidLEI service to bring banks easy access to, and management of, LEIs for Know Your Customer (KYC) and onboarding workflows.

Cyber security provider F-Secure’s hardware security professionals at F-Secure Foundry have created a new version of the USB armory – a computer on a USB stick built from the ground up to be secure. The USB armory Mk II entrenches security in its lowest levels and is suitable for a wide range of applications – such as custom hardware security modules, cryptocurrency wallets, secure authentication and licensing tokens, and more –  that need the efficiency and flexibility of an embedded computer without sacrificing security.

NatWest has today appointed Julie Ashmore as CEO of its digital overdraft alternative Rapid Cash, as it bids to accelerate growth of its working capital venture throughout 2020.

Ashmore joins NatWest from Growth Street, where she was Commerical Director for the peer to peer fintech lender. Prior to this, Ms Ashmore was Head of SME Lending at HSBC, has over 30 years’ experience working within the SME banking and finance market, and has also run her own consultancy and coaching business.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the launch of its Application Programming Interface (API) Marketplace (‘Marketplace’) to provide its clients, partners and internal developers with a single, central location for APIs developed by DTCC, streamlining access to services and improving the user experience.

London-headquartered global currency specialist Mercury FX has invested in cutting-edge platform from RegTech firm TruNarrative, to enhance its customer onboarding processes, regulatory compliance and financial crime prevention strategy.

As a regulated firm, Mercury FX is required to perform a multitude of Know Your Customer (KYC) checks on companies and individuals they work with. Being a global business, Mercury must be able to onboard and monitor customers from all over the world.

There are always many reasons one might want to organise a trip to Paris. For the last couple of years, the Paris FinTech Forum has become another one of these reasons.

First launched in 2015 and hosted in the charming Palais Brongniart - the former stock exchange building – the Paris FinTech Forum has established itself as an unmissable date for financial services experts from all over the world.

Co-authored with Ramtin Matin, Lead Technological Strategist, SpareBank 1 SR-Bank
 

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