For months – years perhaps – we’ve been saying “it’s not too late to be early” to prepare for Making Tax Digital (MTD). Now it is a bit too late to be early. It really is time to just get on with it and drive to the cloud as fast as you possibly can. But if you’re working to the last minute, what are the things you can do to get your clients transitioned to digital accounting in time?

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encompass corporation (“encompass”), the only provider of simultaneous, real-time access to multiple sources of global company and person data, is experiencing increased interest in its automation solutions from East and South East Asia in response to more stringent Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements across the region.

With particularly strong demand coming from Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Japan, encompass is expanding its existing Asia-Pacific presence by launching operations in Hong Kong so that it can support this growth and further develop local partnerships.

Xpress Money, one of the world’s most dependable money transfer brands, has noted that vacancies for roles requiring fintech skills have risen by 73%, year-on-year, over the last six months, according to new analysis of the IT jobs market via ITJobsWatch – as of 15^th March 2018.

A big barrier for businesses selling through European marketplaces is the uncertainty of FX rates and the fees charged for transactions, as well as the implications of PSD2 regulations. Tackling this challenge, freemarket, the disruptive FX and payments platform for SMEs, has launched a new e-commerce Marketplaces solution. 

B-Hive, the collaborative innovation fintech platform that brings together banks, insurers and market infrastructure players to work on common innovation challenges and build bridges to the start-up and scale-up community, today announces the launch of B-Lens 2018, in cooperation with Roland Berger, a global strategy consulting firm and associate partner of the B-Hive community.

Following the signing of a global partnership agreement at the end of 2017, Wealth management fintech firm JHC Systems (JHC), is pleased to announce that its digital dashboard for instant 360°portfolio monitoring, risk analysis and ongoing compliance checking, JHC Neon (Neon) is now available in the Eikon App Studio. 

Amer Attar, JHC’s Head of Alliances, says that Neon’s fit with Eikon is “about as perfect as could be”. 

A few years ago, insurers were busy trying to figure out what IoT was and what it could do. But spotlighting the technology, all too often led to products and services with little customer appeal.

The lesson was clear – put customers front and centre and develop services that build an exceptional experience around a device. To put it simply, the value is not in the technology itself, but in the service proposition that the technology enables.