The Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF) is pleased to announce the official launch of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN), an international network of financial regulators committed to supporting financial innovation that benefits consumers.

InstaReM today announced that it is joining Visa’s Fintech fast-track program in the Asia Pacific region. This program makes it quicker and easier for Visa’s fintech partners, which will now include InstaReM, one of Southeast Asia’s hottest Fintechs, to build and deliver new payments experiences on Visa’s payments network.

If banks fail to upgrade their IT systems with due diligence and proper management, they can easily find themselves suffering significant financial losses like this. In TSB’s situation, this loss was inevitable considering the extent of customer compensation and the large number of customers who have subsequently switched their bank.

A decline in business optimism caused by economic uncertainty and Brexit confusion is holding back manufacturers from investing in vital technology improvements, and this could seriously impact future growth across the sector.

ESG is not just a trend. It is going to dominate contemporary investors decision on financial strategies for the future to come”, outlines Timo Pfeiffer, Head of Research at Solactive on Solactive’s recent index development. The German index provider released a new line of ESG screened indices in the equity and fixed income space. 

Kyriba, the global leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, today announced the agenda and headliners for the Kyriba Live Treasury & Finance Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, part of an expanded event series designed to help senior finance executives accelerate digital transformation in their organizations.

The summit, scheduled for March 4-8 at the Delano at Mandalay Bay, will be followed by additional events in London, Tokyo and France.

Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR), the independent body established to implement the £775 million Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) State Aid Alternative Remedies Package, today announces the opening of the application window for Pool B of the Capability and Innovation Fund.

The Capability and Innovation Fund is designed to support the development of wider capabilities and competition in the SME banking markets. The fund comprises of four pools with a total value of £425 million. The process for Pool A and Pool D is currently underway.

Coinstreet Partners, the pioneering token consultancy and crypto investment firm, STO Global-X, a security token exchange platform, and Securitize, a blockchain-based digital security issuance and management platform, entered into a strategic partnership to bring one-stop, end-to-end digital security offering (DSO) services to the vibrant Asia market, which has yet to see widespread adoption of tokenized securities.

The World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative is partnering with WorkInProgress, an Absa Innovation Lab in Cape Town, to host a ‘solveathon’ workshop for the inaugural Mission Billion Challenge.