Huobi expands European operations with London office and OTC trading service

Huobi Group, the leading blockchain asset solutions provider, announced today the opening of its London office and the appointment of Lester Li as European Exchange Director and Josh Goodbody as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Huobi UK. These new senior level hires come at a time of rapid expansion by Huobi in Europe and high demand from the digital asset trading community.

Charles Stanley Direct has rolled-out a new version of the App that it launched in October 2017.  The latest version is compatible with Android, iPhone and iPads and incorporates new functionality for users that includes the ability to trade in over 4,000 Funds and instant account access thanks to a new biometric log-in process utilising face or fingerprint recognition.

Fintech business lender Spotcap recently expanded its C-Suite to include two newly created roles.

Linh Bergen-Peters joins the company as Chief Marketing Officer and Martin Gawlak as Chief People Officer. These new roles will be instrumental in ensuring Spotcap’s continued growth. The company increased its gross revenue by more than 100 percent between May 2017 and May 2018, and doubled the size of its loan book during the same time period.

Europe’s first science and technology park and digital cradle, Sophia Antipolis, will host, from Nov. 7th to 9th, 2018, the top Artificial Intelligence specialists for a summit dedicated to researchers, businesses, economical partners, students and the general public.

iPipeline® – a leading provider of next-generation solutions and services to the life and pensions market – today announces that Canada Life has selected iPipeline’s Digital Platform to distribute their individual protection products.

Violent attacks on ATMs, cyber intrusion, jackpotting, malware attacks, card skimming, black box attacks, and social engineering are just some of the threats being discussed at ATM & Cyber Security 2018

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Coventry Building Society, the UK’s second-largest building society, has chosen Temenos T24 Core Banking platform for its future savings and mortgages servicing. The Society has opted for a front-to-back digital transformation using Temenos T24 Core Banking as well as Temenos Channels, Financial Crime Mitigation and Temenos Payments Hub solutions. 

Finastra, today announced that it is bringing IFRS 9 compliance capabilities to Indonesia through a local Government accredited data center, helping regional and medium-sized banks take the necessary action now to comply with the new financial reporting standards due in January 2020. 

New options trading model functionality available to all I-STAR/CORE users

NRI, a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, today announced that I-STAR/CORE has added a new function to respond to a new listed options trading method, Flexible Options. The new method was recently introduced by Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) on June 25^th, 2018.