Organised by BII World the Financial Innovation Summit launched yesterday at the Hilton Doha.

The two-day event covered over 20 fintech experts explore on the latest trends, developments and emerging technologies in the banking sector in the region.

Trustly is pleased to announce a new partnership with one of Sweden’s leading platforms for online payments, Payson AB. Through the partnership, Trustly’s bank payment solution is now offered in Payson’s checkout, which is used by thousands of Nordic e-commerce merchants.

Densify, the leader in Cloud Resource Management software market, today announced that it is launching machine learning capabilities that will automatically optimise use of containers. This technology will enable companies to be more efficient, limit wasted cloud spend, improve application uptime and scalability, and reduce performance risk. With Densify, organisations can ensure their containers are being deployed to their full potential.

Solactive reported about the Solactive MicroSectors™ U.S. Big Bank Index. The Index premiers as Solactive’s first joint collaboration with US company REX Shares, functions as the underlying for a series of long & short ETNs for sophisticated investors, and is linked only to the biggest U.S. banks. With respect to conventional sector classification, the equal-weighted index captures the ten largest securities according to free-float market capitalization from the U.S. banking sector, giving investors direct exposure to systemrelevant financial companies.

FIME is the only testing laboratory in Japan accredited to provide NFC Forum testing and certification services. Japanese card, terminal and mobile device manufacturers can now benefit from local end-to-end testing support.

Preliminary guidelines on crypto assets and money laundering issued by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could be a tipping point for the crypto industry.

From June 2019, crypto products and their service providers will be required to register or obtain a license from the relevant authorities. They will also be required to establish effective monitoring systems for anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and they must hold and make available to authorities, accurate information on both buyers and sellers of crypto assets.

Target Group, the business process outsourcing (BPO) and operational transformation provider, is pleased to announce it has closed its mean gender pay gap by 4.8 percentage points to 22.5%, considerably below the finance and insurance average of 33.4%.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today unveiled the findings of its 2019 Digital Sales in Banking Report. The report, now in its fourth year, compares the digital account opening capabilities of 60 large and representative mid-size banks in North America, Europe and Australia, measuring both the breadth of offerings and the quality of the customer journey.

Banks arriving at the digital promised land

It’s the topic we love to hate. Most of us are sick of hearing about Brexit but, at the same time, we want/need to know what May be going on (a fitting name for the PM to have during this era of uncertainty). And it certainly feels like a long time since the referendum results shook the nation in 2016…

Now, there are mere days until it’s the original deadline. So, what’s next on the agenda? How are asset managers coping? Is 22^nd May the new 29^th March? These are all questions we delve into below.

There’s a reason why #palemalestale was trending on Twitter – and not in a good way. Back in 2018, we looked at why gender equality in asset management wasn’t bad, but not particularly good either: