This year's month-long event runs from October 29 - November 20

The Babylon Project is a hackathon initiative committed to democratizing access to global innovation and the adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. The broadest vision of the World Blockchain Hackathon is a future ecosystem in which blockchain innovation becomes the standard backbone for impenetrably secure, fast-moving, intelligent global technologies of all kinds.

An investment group led by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and also comprising PCP Capital Partners and RB Sports & Media (the "Investment Group"), has completed the acquisition of 100% of Newcastle United Limited and Newcastle United Football Club Limited ("Newcastle United" or the "Club") from St. James Holdings Limited. All requisite approvals have been obtained from the English Premier League and the acquisition was completed on 7 October 2021.

Neiman joins from Haver Analytics to drive future growth in the US

MACROBOND Financial, a leading provider of economic and financial data and analytics, announced today that it has appointed Larry Neiman as Director of Business Development, effective 1 November. 

Mr. Neiman, who will be based in New York, will be responsible for growing Macrobond’s business in the US and managing strategic customer relationships in the region.

The report found that by 2025, instant payments and e-money payments will account for more than 25% of global non-cash transactions, up from 14.5% in 2020.

Summary: Welcome to Payrolls Friday! As my fingers hit the keyboards while my brain contemplates Friday, Payrolls Day. Ringing in my head is the tune of Phil Collins’ 1989 hit tune, “Just Another Day in Paradise”. Indeed, its just another day for you and me in FX land. Ahead of what is anticipated to be an upbeat September Payrolls report. Median forecasts are for a Jobs Creation number between 490,000 to 500,000, from 235,000 in August, and the Unemployment Rate to fall to 5.1% from 5.2%.

Getsafe, the digital insurer targeting millennial buyers in Germany and the UK, has expanded its Series B funding round to $93M. The company is now serving a quarter of a million customers in Germany and the UK, consolidating its position as Europe’s largest neo-insurer.

The IRS can avoid the risk of misuse and loss of private data by using analytics software.

TiPJAR®, the UK’s leading HMRC-cleared cashless tipping platform have announced their second pioneering partnership with TableYeti™, provider of payment devices that deliver a radically better contactless payment experience for hospitality businesses, to launch the world’s first payment terminal that enables card tips to be separated from a transaction transparently.

Coinfloor customers will be smoothly migrated to CoinCorner’s platform

Two of the leading UK-focused Bitcoin exchanges, CoinCorner and Coinfloor, have agreed to migrate Coinfloor’s customers to the CoinCorner platform to help further British Bitcoin adoption.

Open Banking Expo, the largest global community of Open Banking and Open Finance executives driving one of the biggest digital transformations across the financial services sector, has partnered with open banking advisory company Open Vector to support the growth of the open banking ecosystem in Latin America.

The partners will launch community meet-ups to bring together financial institutions, regulators and industry leaders to accelerate the proliferation of open banking in the region.