Paxos today announced the launch of Paxos Standard™, the world's first regulated crypto asset. The Paxos Standard token is fully collateralized 1:1 by the U.S. dollar, issued by the Paxos Trust Company, and approved and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Ripple Labs Inc., provider of the leading enterprise blockchain solutions for payments and XRP II, LLC, release the following statement today:

R3 HoldCo LLC, R3 LLC, Ripple Labs Inc. and XRP II, LLC announce that they have reached a settlement of all outstanding litigation between the parties. The terms of the agreement will remain confidential and both sides look forward to putting these disputes behind them.

 IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Coronation Fund Managers, one of the largest independent asset managers in South Africa, has gone live on its Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Managed Service in only 14 weeks.

Control Risks, the specialist global risk consultancy, has appointed Neil Meikle as Head of Forensic Technology for Europe and Africa. Neil is a forensic technology specialist with over fifteen years of experience in leading multi-jurisdictional forensic investigations for clients including corporates, law firms and regulatory bodies. Neil joins Control Risks from PwC UK.

 IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a leading global provider of financial information services today announced that MarkitSERV now offers integration with BidFX, an industry leading execution management system (EMS) in the $5 trillion daily FX market, for straight through post-trade processing of FX trades, including FX spot, forwards, swaps and NDFs.

QuantHouse, the leading independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, today announced its QuantFEED and QuantLINK will provide optimized direct access to Cboe market data. 

Asset Control, the leading provider of Financial Data Management solutions, today announced that Sovereign Capital Partners (“Sovereign”), has invested in the Company.  Sovereign, a UK-based private equity firm, has a strong track record of acquiring high quality businesses and supporting their growth.

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MCC SimpleFinance LLC (hereafter, “SimpleFinance” or the “Company”), a high-tech Russian company specialising in providing accessible lending to small and medium-sized Russian businesses, announces that the Company has topped the National Rating Agency’s (“NRA”) ranking of organizations in the microfinance sector.