Mastercard today announced that leading cybersecurity expert Simon Hunt will join the company as executive vice president to head its cybersecurity solutions unit.
Hunt’s role will be to further enhance Mastercard security capabilities for cardholders, customers, merchants and other stakeholders in light of the growing cybercrime threat.
Dianrong, a leader in online marketplace lending in China, and R3, a global enterprise software firm, today announced that Dianrong’s next version of its supply chain finance solution will be made available on Corda, R3’s blockchain platform for finance and business.
Dianrong has been a pioneer in leveraging fintech and blockchain to improve supply chain finance for small businesses. The new Corda app (“CorDapp”) will further expand Dianrong’s reach both in China and globally by leveraging R3’s proven enterprise-grade blockchain technology platform.
After a comprehensive brand review, Intelligent Environments, the global provider of financial services technology, is set to become ieDigital.
Qunit Group, one of the leading fintech companies in the UK, has launched Infinian, a new data company, to leverage and commercilaise the Groups vast real time data assets.
Infinian provides highly insightful data to financial services business, fintech companies and some of the biggest global data businesses and credit bureaus. The company’s suite of products enables its customers to enhance the quality of their credit decisions and existing customer databases, enabling them to create more efficient and profitable operating models.
Building the Future
FundRequest, a new platform for incentivizing open-source development, has officially launched their first product: a blockchain powered integration with GitHub that allows developers to directly solve open source project issues and be rewarded. The platform integrates directly with GitHub, allowing projects to fund ‘issues’ that developers can solve and be rewarded in cryptocurrency.
The Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) now uses valantic’s (previously icubic) software solutions for electronic trading of derivative financial instruments (swaps) via Bloomberg. This is realised with the innovative and versatile software iQbonds. iQbonds enables the Bayerische Landesbank to fulfil all regulatory requirements according to MiFID II and to realise numerous improvements at the same time. The implementation phase has progressed quickly and smoothly and has been finalised within just a few weeks.
International payments company Moorwand has become the first fintech to offer its services to payment innovators through Open Payments Cloud (OPC).
On July 18, top crypto experts from huge international corporations will gather in Paris at the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference France – large-scale event dedicated to cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and ICO.
The meeting will include conference and demozone. Presentations from leading specialists and expositions of the innovative solutions from blockchain-based startups are waiting for the guests.
Blockchain in France: Big Changes
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