New functionality includes the ability for research providers to book and sell meetings, calls, webinars and events

As the global market for investment research continues to unbundle post MiFID II, RSRCHXchange has built upon its strength as an aggregator and marketplace for written research by adding a suite of functionality for other research services. 

B21 will list Salus Alpha’s ‘Smarter than Crypto’ index fund, and introduce new licensed funds to investors

Royal Dutch Shell Pilot Successfully Completed

CoinSmart, a new cryptocurrency exchange offers a reinventedSmartInterface, automated multi-trade functionality, enterprise-grade security, and unique tax reporting tools

Seamless protection for corporate data spanning hybrid cloud deployments; simplifies backup and restore process

SDK.finance, a core payment platform wrapped in +300 APIs, has committed two open source projects to GitHub, the world’s largest repository of source code. The first of these projects is an Angular UI source code which allows a user to build, test, and deploy User Interface (UI) for the backend of payment solutions. The second of these projects is a Postman collection which facilitates the use of APIs.

As it continues to expand its business and payments capabilities built over many years, Barclays has today announced the appointment of Rob Cameron as CEO, Global Head of Payment Acceptance. This role will sit at the helm of Barclaycard Payment Solutions and will be based in London, UK.

Barclaycard Payment Solutions is the number one payment processor in the UK and number two in Europe. It enables merchants to take payments, and already processes more than 1 in 3 card payments in the UK with over £245 billion processed in 2017.

MKB Bank, Hungary’s fourth largest commercial bank has today announced it is the first in the country to take a leap towards digital and open banking after transforming its entire technology system. Its transformation has included a full replacement of its core banking system, the retirement and consolidation of roughly 10 additional systems, and the modernization of its entire IT architecture.

Vayana Network, India’s largest 3^rd party Short-Term Trade Finance (STTF) platform, today announced crossing the USD 1 billion mark of trade financing on its network.  Vayana’s simple, cloud-based Network enables businesses and their trade partners get easy, digital and fast access to financing from Financial Institutions (FIs), such as Banks and NBFCs, at better than market rates.

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has signed an agreement to connect Kyrgyzstan’s Bank of Asia to SWIFT via NSD’s service bureau.