L^zLabs today announced Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) S.A., the investment house, as its latest customer. Using LzLabs technology, Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) S.A. has completed a project to move its legacy core mainframe system to a Linux-based alternative, running on x86 servers.

The project has seen the introduction of a wide range of innovative features, whilst significantly reducing IT costs. 

B-Hive, the collaborative innovation fintech platform that brings together banks, insurers and market infrastructure players to work on common innovation challenges and build bridges to the startup and scale-up community, along with the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT Foundation), a public-private sector initiative that drives technology innovation for Luxembourg’s financial services industry, came together today in the PwC Luxembourg Experience Center for its first hub roads

Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services – the financial services IT consultancy division of Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT), a global IT service provider – today announced it successfully delivered an Order Management System (OMS) for a global trading house ahead of the MiFID II deadline on January 3. 

Seismic changes in UK policy and legislation could be negatively impacting the UK financial service industry’s ability to build a globally competitive digital customer experience.

According to an international study commissioned by identity data intelligence specialist GBG and conducted by Forrester Consulting, the UK financial sector is lagging behind China, Singapore, the US and Australia in adopting new approaches to authenticating customer identity. 

Nasdaq was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its 2018 Forrester Wave(TM) evaluation, Governance, Risk, And Compliance (GRC) Platforms, Q1 2018.

Cisco today is helping address the challenges of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) and their customers by offering MSSPs comprehensive security, visibility, and control of customer endpoints without added hardware or complexity. The Cisco endpoint security portfolio includes three industry-leading solutions-Cisco AMP for Endpoints, Cisco Umbrella, and Meraki Systems Manager to offer protection against advanced malware and threats.

With each passing day, we are making changes to how we live, work and play – using technology to make our digital lives more simple, seamless and secure.

The Internet of Things is changing the user experience from workspaces and public transport to retail locations; AR and VR is bringing shopping experiences to our living rooms and artificial intelligence is helping us secure payments and is making every engagement we make more personal than ever before.

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Money20/20 Asia will bring together top global FinTech leaders in Singapore – from Ant Financial, GO-JEK, Ping An Group, ICICI Bank, Tencent and DBS Bank to Adyen, Google, Stripe, PayPal, Samsung Pay and many more – to create the future of money.

Singapore, 31 January 2018 – Money20/20, the world’s leading FinTech and Payments event, is just 6 weeks from the launch of its APAC edition, taking place in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre.

If 2017 was all about proof of concept for blockchain, in 2018, it looks set to go to production.

In this technical review, we take a look at the ecosystem of organisations driving blockchain projects, those most likely to deliver over the next 12 months, and the ways in which Gresham and other technology providers are solving the many challenges and embracing the possibilities presented by DLT.

The promise of blockchain 

The DTCC’s 2016 white paper provided a great summary: