Bitcoin has been in the spotlight for the last year due to its massive bull market phase and, it's the previous halving that happened on May 11th, 2020. It should be noted that one of the contributing factors for this bull run is Bitcoin halving, so here we explain why this event is very important for the entire blockchain network and what are the main advantages that Bitcoin users can expect when bitcoin halving happens.

What is Bitcoin Halving?

Traditional security strategies that financial institutions have relied on for years are being challenged by digital transformation. A remarkable 68% of banking and financial executives believe their distributed workforces introduced new vulnerabilities.

In the UK, over the past 12 months, the share of Square businesses that are cashless has risen by more than 4x. This time last year only one in 10 UK businesses using Square were cashless, whereas now nearly 5 in 10 are cashless. This is according to Square’s Cash and the Pandemic 2.0 report which takes a look back over the last year at what’s changed, what’s new, and what could be here to stay when it comes to how small businesses in the UK manage payments. 

Spectra Logic today announced that Imperial War Museums (IWM) deployed Spectra StorCycle^® Storage Lifecycle Management Software to enhance its existing storage infrastructure, which supports its audio-visual and exhibitions departments to preserve invaluable data, including thousands of films, videotapes, audio recordings and photographs that would otherwise disintegrate and be lost forever were they not d

Announced today, UniCredit has made several key appointments to further strengthen the bank’s GTB expertise and client service offering. The appointments are as follows:

Danish-owned cryptocurrency investment fund ARK36 has participated in a private sale of GTU tokens issued by Concordium, a new, state-of-the-art blockchain project built for business and focused on regulatory compliance and privacy.

Qumulo, the breakthrough leader in radically simplifying enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, has seen a significant increase in both the file data needs of media and entertainment (M&E) customers and in customer adoption.

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) has announced today it has extended its contract with leading UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin for a further three years. The new agreement will extend the current strategic partnership between the two firms until November 2023. 

Alan Cubbon brings over 35 years of quantitative finance and risk management experience to CAIM, and will play a pivotal role in bolstering the firm’s efforts in investment solutions, asset allocation and advisory and product development for its central bank network and other institutional clients.