So you’ve heard about the explosion of bitcoin, ether, ripple, and other cryptocurrencies? You talked with someone who “got in early” and is making a killing? Is it too late now? How can you participate in the upside of this new blockchain crypto-economy?

We currently have about $100 billion in assets on blockchains. I believe that within five years, we’ll hit $1 trillion. My thesis is that we’ll continue to see very volatile growth of most of these assets, so that if you’re exposed to many of them, your portfolio should do quite well.

EnvonetTM has launched a free online web portal to allow easy comparison of corporate environmental financial disclosures. Envonet is a global tool that enables users to quickly access environmental and climate-related financial disclosures that are often buried deep within lengthy financial filings.  Equally important, Envonet reveals where corporations have omitted information relevant to investors.

A technology firm in the north of England has become one of only seven companies in the whole of the United Kingdom to officially partner with Google as a Google Cloud partner.

Koios, a Newcastle based technology company, passed a series of rigorous tests to complete the Google Partnership and is now the only Google Partner in the whole of the North East region for cloud services and consultancy. GCP is Google's industry leading cloud infrastructure platform, competing with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. GSuite is an integrated office, email and collaborative working toolset.

SAS has joined the Middle East NXT Banking Summit as the Strategic Analytics Partner. The event, which is organized by Alpha One Events, is scheduled on September 26 & 27’ 2017 at The Address Dubai Marina in Dubai, UAE. The event will bring together industry leaders to explore the impact of futuristic banking technology innovation along with partnerships and collaboration with fintech can transform the customer value chain across the Middle East.

The global financial services market may be well on the road to recovery from the 2008 economic crisis, yet the past few years have seen much turmoil; with regulations, security and increasing competition on the agenda of every financial sector CxO in the industry. We see emerging digital-first fintech players such as Fidor, Tandem and Starling, shaking up the market.

Europe has a new mobile payment method: Wirecard will enable European retailers to accept WeChat Pay, one of the leading mobile payment solution in China. 

Euronext announces today the closing of the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a leading Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporates and public organisations , for a consideration of €30.1 million.

Mioying Technology (MioTech), a big data solutions provider for asset management firms, announced today an agreement with Silverhorn Investment Advisors to deliver its industry-leading big data asset management platform in assistance of managing Silverhorn's client assets.

Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has committed to deploy FusionBanking Essence from Finastra in each of its 65 branches and representative offices across the Sultanate. The bank, which is the third largest in Oman, will transition from its current FusionBanking Equation platform as it diversifies its business to accelerate growth and renews its focus on customer-centricity.