Leading London-based fintech company TransferWise announced today (6 July 2018) the official launch of its international money transfer platform in Hong Kong, giving it a major foothold in Asia as part of the company's ongoing international expansion.

As organisations raced towards the compliance deadline for the GDPR, their focus appeared to be simply to identify the inventory of IT supported assets that hold GDPR sensitive data. While a reasonable first step, this approach is merely scratching the surface of this far-reaching regulation. The real challenge for GDPR practitioners is to create a ‘sustainable’ compliance process for the foreseeable future.

SINGAPORE – The largest B2B & B2C event Traders Fair & Gala Night Singapore organized by FINEXPO is going to take place on October 26, 2018 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre. Traders Fair & Gala Night Singapore is about to become the biggest world Financial Expo-Forum covering Financial and FX Trading Industry as well as it claims the role of the most favorable way to build up the business connections and widen industrial knowledge.

The eleventh Emerging Payments Awards will be back at the Hilton, Park Lane in London on Wednesday 10th October. This year the Awards will be hosted by stand-up Canadian/Irish comedian, Katherine Ryan, best known for co-hosting ‘Your face or Mine’ alongside Jimmy Carr. The Awards will host more than 700 guests, including the industry’s most senior decision-makers from across the globe. With 30% more entries this year and 55% tables already taken, the ceremony is bound to be a sell-out.

Western Union has been providing fast, reliable and convenient money transfer services in Ivory Coast since 1995

Western Union (www.WesternUnion.com), a leader in global cross-border, cross-currency money movement, announced today the opening of an office in Ivory Coast, reinforcing the company’s on-going commitment to service excellence by getting even closer to customers.

Why now is the time for pension providers to address the requirements of the Pensions Dashboard project

The average UK worker is expected to have at least 11 jobs over their lifetime which, in theory, could mean 11 or more pension pots to remember and track over a very long period of time. Add to that the estimated £400 million already sat in lost or forgotten pension accounts and there is a clear need for a mechanism to allow workers to see all of their pension details in just one place, as they can already in countries such as Denmark and Australia.

In line with its new business and innovation strategy, Maalem Financing has signed an agreement with Path Solutions, the Islamic banking software specialist, in which iMAL Islamic core banking platform will be rolled out progressively at the company’s headquarters.   

ITRS Group (“ITRS”), the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics to financial services firms, has announced a partnership with Apica, industry leaders in performance monitoring for enterprise business.

 Finastra has been positioned as a Category Leader in the Chartis RiskTech Quadrants for both banking book and trading book credit risk solutions. The rankings are featured in a recent report published by Chartis, titled Technology Solutions for Credit Risk 2.0, 2018, which assesses the technologies that are addressing the speed, flexibility and risk profile of the lending market.

Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini), a digital asset exchange and custodian, announced today that Robert Cornish has joined as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer.