EMQ, a leading cross-border settlement network in Asia and Visa (NYSE:V) today announced a strategic partnership to offer crossborder remittances across Asia Pacific. This partnership pairs the capabilities of EMQ’s extensive network and Visa‘s real-time1 push payments platform, Visa Direct, to offer customers superior cross-border solutions with greater choice, transparency, and flexibility.

I get that request all the time. People from all industries who have had no brush with the concept and who have seen some of my articles and can see my borderline-obsessive passion when it gets mentioned want me to provide a Cliff notes version to understand what has me so invested.

Answering the request is not always the right thing do to as circumstances and context may be absent and I wouldn’t want to deter people from learning more because I chose a bad time to introduce anyone to the concept.

Finnovex Middle East is set to take place on March 19, 2019 with an aim to bolster Innovations in the Financial Services Space

Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency responsible for trade and innovation, has today announced it is embarking on a fourth 16-week City Insights Programme with partner, the London Irish Business Society (LIBS). Following another successful programme in 2017 and popular demand for new inclusions, the 2019 programme has been extended to incorporate two further sectors, Digital Tech and Talent Tech. The programme’s finalists are divided across these three sectors.

Fintech is an emerging industry which centres the utilization of technology to improve activities in finance, it rivals conventional money related strategies. The essential objective is to replace or enhance the usage of financial services.

Disruption in the conventional banking and financial service space is igniting innovative trends, the trends to watch out for are listed below.

ValidSoft, a voice biometric and multi-factor authentication SaaS company today announced the appointment of Mac Parra as its Western US Regional Vice President. Mac holds a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years’ of sales experience in the technology and cyber security industries.

Prior to joining ValidSoft, Mac served as Sales Director for seven years with Accenture, followed by five years at Parasoft. Most recently he served as the Vice President of Sales for the US at GDPR Compliance company, NeuSoft.

PPRO , the cross-border e-payment specialist, in collaboration with Edgar, Dunn and Company, is today announcing PPRO’s new and improved Payment Almanac 2.0 is now available both online and in-print for PPRO’s customers and partners. The new and updated Almanac is the most complete guide to the complex and evolving world of local payment methods.

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has hired five experienced professionals to lead its drive to re-engineer the FX market.

Post-trade FX is currently riddled with complex legacy systems and manual processes, creating unnecessary cost and risk across the market. The new hires bring a wealth of FX experience to the company and will play an important role in the rollout of Cobalt’s shared infrastructure which optimises risk management and slashes cost by up to 80%.

VSoft Corporation, a global leader in providing information and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced the launch of Wings, an all new, flexible and comprehensive core processing system built on advanced browser-based technologies.  

As part of the Token 2049 event, the Ethereum Supermeetup 2019 is the first of its kind held at the luxurious Kerry Hotel in Hongkong last March 13-14. People need to know what the future of Ethereum’s development would look like.

Token 2049 is one of the biggest crypto and blockchain conferences held in Hongkong. Several crypto companies and startups from various countries gathered together for this annual blockchain event.