Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX), the platform making it easy to buy, own, and sell alternative investments, has added new account maintenance functionality to its digital alternative investment platform. The new AIX account maintenance capability automates maintenance requests, mitigating tedious paperwork and manual processes.

Refinitiv, a business under the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has announced the winners of its FX Trading Awards 2021 for Thailand.

The FX Awards aim to promote transparency and liquidity in the Thai foreign exchange market and to recognize its importance to the broader Thailand economy. The award winners were determined based on trading activity on Refinitiv's FX trading platforms throughout 2020.

Datasynthesis, data quality management platform provider, is very pleased to announce that it has recruited Brian Sentance as Head of EMEA. Sentance’s appointment marks a key step in the expansion of Datasynthesis, extending its reach beyond its origins in the North American market with its new London office. Datasynthesis, formed in 2018 in New York, is a relatively recent entrant to the market with its cloud-native data quality management platform.

September 2008 saw the emblematic moment of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) when Lehman Brothers collapsed. Intraday liquidity was fundamental to this collapse.  Correspondent banks were not willing to provide intraday credit lines with Lehman Brothers looking such a bad risk and demanded Lehman’s either prefund accounts or collateralise the credit required. Once the run on the firm began, Lehman Brothers could not both pay out depositors and provide sufficient liquidity to cover its intraday requirements.

Clearwater Analytics, an industry-leading SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, and reporting, announced today that it has appointed global industry veteran, Mr. Jacques Aigrain, to its Board of Directors.  

Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, welcomes Frode Berg as the new General Manager for EMEA. In his new role, Frode will be responsible for overseeing Provenir’s accelerated growth in the region and enabling new and existing clients, which include Klarna, Avida Finans, Hitachi Capital and White Oak, to make smarter decisions, faster.

PayDashboard, the UK’s number one payday company, has today announced the arrival of Ryan Ward as a key member of the executive board. Ryan joins following recent management roles at organisations including SAP, Oracle and Adobe and brings a wealth of experience in creating and driving significant growth programmes for start-ups and SMBs - from inception right through to large, international corporations.

Data platform company, RegulAItion, has appointed leading financial services technologist Paul Lee-Simion as its first CTO to meet the ‘incredible demand’ for its break-through AIR platform.

An industry stalwart with more than 30 years’ leadership experience in financial services, Lee-Simion will be based in the pioneering company’s new Singapore office to meet demand in the Asian markets and support international expansion.

Basel – The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has announced a new collaboration with Certification Authorities (CAs) and Trust Service Providers (TSPs), to drive the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within digital certificates. 

Macro Hive, a leading independent research provider for investors, is now the first full service financial research firms in the world to accept cryptocurrency for its services. Having partnered with CoinPayments, the world’s largest cryptocurrency payments processor, Macro Hive now accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for both its retail products. This is in response to increasing demand from customers to use new technologies and demonstrates the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies in the traditional economy.