Despite global lockdowns lifting, COVID-19 has increased the pace of digital transformation exponentially, and consumers have shown a substantial step-change in a more permanent adoption of technology into their everyday lives.

The Virtual FinTech Fair, co-hosted by FinStep Asia and Novsphere Media, has confirmed that over 50 world renowned speakers will debate and discuss the future of the financial industry on 4-5^th August 2020. The event will also be Asia’s first fully virtual conference, with interactive booths, networking, and panel sessions.

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced that its scale-out file storage solution, Nutanix Files, recently reached the significant milestone of 2,500 customers, including nearly 180 Global 2,000 companies. Nutanix Files provides simple, flexible and intelligent enterprise file storage for the cloud era.

Huobi Institution, is announcing the launch of a digital asset management platform and custody services for institutions. The platform matches qualified institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals with fully-vetted quantitative trading teams in a secure and reliable environment managed by Huobi.

Panxora, the digital asset treasury management service, announced it will support ClinTex, a pharmaceuticals industry solutions provider, in raising and managing $7 million USD for a blockchain-powered clinical trials solution to accelerate access to medicines for patients. Panxora will provide a management framework, determining when capital raised is released into the project, which will enable ClinTex to strategically grow its business.

Clydestone Ghana (GSE: CLYD) a leading payments system and fintech solutions provider has partnered with Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) (www.ThalesGroup.com) a global leader in digital identities and security to provide TheOne authentication as a service platform.
 

The platform will offer a multi-tenant ready environment to host financial institutions and payment service providers to offer Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) across multiple channels.
 

Global Digital bank FV Bank International Inc. today announced the launch of its online FV Bank, which will offer individual and business accounts to international clientele through an online-only banking platform.

Stratifyd, a technology company that democratizes data science and artificial intelligence (AI) through self-service data analytics, today announced a revolution in data analytics with the launch of its next generation platform.

MayStreet, the industry’s leading market data infrastructure provider, today announced it has added Fenics USTreasuries (Fenics UST) to its US cash treasury data portfolio. Owned and operated by BGC Financial, L.P., Fenics UST is a low-latency, fully electronic U.S. Government securities trading venue that delivers displayed liquidity calibrated to the industry’s tightest tick increments.

EDM Council, the leading trade association for data management, has launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group. This new group includes participation from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as well as over 20 leading financial industry firms. The Work Group has been formed to develop an open source CDMC Best Practice Framework to accelerate Cloud adoption and automate the associated controls.