GLEIF showcases how the LEIs should be included within digital, machine-readable financial documentation on the basis of ESMA’s ESEF mandate, to enhance trust and ease data aggregation, and demonstrates how simple it is to incorporate the LEI into electronic signatures as an additional best practice.

An interview with Junta Nakai, Global Industry Leader, Financial Services at Databricks.

Financial IT: Can you tell us more about your background and the career path that brought you to join the Databricks?

ING announced today that Steven van Rijswijk, currently member of the Executive Board and chief risk officer of ING, will succeed Ralph Hamers as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board. The Supervisory Board has appointed Steven van Rijswijk effective 1 July 2020. As announced earlier, Ralph Hamers will leave ING to join UBS, where he will become CEO later in the year.

IDnow (www.idnow.io), a fast growing European identity verification provider, has seen demand for its AI and video identity software in the UK’s financial services sector more than double since the start of the year as growth in scams linked to COVID-19 continue to rise.