Encompass Corporation, a fast-growing provider of intelligently automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has been named within the RegTech 100 - a list recognising the world’s most innovative technology solution providers.

Now in its third year, the RegTech 100, announced today [26 November] by specialist research firm RegTech Analyst, highlights “RegTech companies that every financial institution needs to know about” in the year ahead.

Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has launched its multi-cloud connectivity solution to simplify and accelerate how traders connect to cryptocurrency exchanges. It delivers secure, direct and ultra-low latency access to cryptocurrency exchanges hosted in Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud platform.  

Nucoro, the Fintech company providing bespoke white-labelled technology focused on delivering wealth management solutions to third parties, has announced it plans to start targeting the insurance sector with its offering. It says the growth of digital wealth management means it’s now easier for insurers to offer this service than ever before.  

2019 to date has proven to be a record growth year for Klarna, and this is before the much anticipated shopping holidays. Each day thousands of new consumers are choosing Klarna, with especially strong preference building in the UK and the US markets. The unique online and offline customer-centric offering, providing a healthier, simpler and smarter alternative to credit cards, and with multiple services to smoothen the end to end shopping experience, confirms Klarna as the preferred ‘buy now, pay later’ provider. 

Discover cardmembers can now use their Cashback Bonus® or Miles to pay for purchases at millions of online stores through PayPal, giving cardmembers another convenient and flexible way to reward themselves.

As part of Barclays’ efforts to build its European Corporate Banking proposition, the bank has today launched a new branch in Luxembourg to provide multinational clients with transaction banking services. The branch will focus on offering corporates and financial institutions a range of banking products, including cash management, debt, foreign exchange and trade finance facilities.

A majority of U.S. consumers plan to do most of their holiday shopping online for the first time ever,* yet a new survey** from cyber security provider F-Secure finds that most internet users remain concerned about their exposure to cyber crime.

The survey of shoppers highlighted 3 major trends among American consumers:

French telco Orange is launching its mobile-only bank in Spain, tempting customers with a discount on their phone bills.

The research will focus on microarchitectural threats where attackers can read or ‘sample’ data to potentially steal information.

University of Adelaide cyber security expert Dr Yuval Yarom is leading the research, which aims to identify weak points in web-browsers that can leak private or sensitive information.

“Whenever you visit a website, that website runs a programme on your computer,” Dr Yarom said.

“If you visit multiple websites, concurrently, then each of them can learn from other website you’re reading and probably more information.

MV Index Solutions (MVIS) in partnership with CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data, today announced the launch of the MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index (ticker: MVIBTC), an index designed to measure the performance of a digital assets portfolio which invests in Bitcoin, priced on select exchanges.

The MVIS CryptoCompare Institutional Bitcoin Index is a robust and transparent benchmark for Bitcoin, which will be used by Canadian investment fund manager, 3iQ Corp., for the purpose of NAV calculation of The Bitcoin Fund.