The Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today signed a FinTech Cooperation Agreement (CA) to foster innovation in financial services between Brunei Darussalam and Singapore.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is sponsoring the Risk Americas Convention taking place in New York on May 17^th and 18^th.

More than 400 attendees are expected at the event - the 7^th annual such conference - with more than 80 Chief Risk Officers and Heads of Risk from leading financial services firms set to present.

BroadSoft, Inc., now a part of Cisco, and a global market leader in cloud calling, meeting, messaging and contact center software as a service (SaaS), announces that Spark, one of New Zealand's largest telecommunications providers, will now be offering Spark Cloud Phone powered by the BroadCloud calling platform to small and medium businesses throughout New Zealand.

Mastercard continues to celebrate the achievements, innovation and leadership of women by sponsoring Women In Payments, May 14 and 15 in Washington D.C.

Cryptocurrency regulation, AI tokens and blockchain-based cyber security — it is only part of topics to be discussed at the fourth annual Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference in Prague scheduled for May 17. Representatives of IBM, European Parliament and a large Swiss company PwC Legal will participate in the event.

Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague, the fourth annual event dedicated to the blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICO, will be held on May 17. This is one of the largest platforms in Europe for the exchange of experience and search for potential partners.

Few technologies since the web have generated as much noise as blockchain – and in particular its most well-known application, Bitcoin. But is blockchain really as significant as its proponents claim, and can it revolutionise financial services?

On 25^th May 2018, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into effect across the EU, regulating how businesses should handle personal data. Businesses large and small need to get ready for this change. However, research from industry analysts IDC last month found that less than half of European Small & Medium Businesses have taken steps to get ready for the new regulations. So with just 30 short days to go, Sage has identified 10 everyday workplace activities that ought to be considered more carefully from May 25^th onwards.

TraiCon Events Launches The World Blockchain Congress Bahrain 2018

TraiCon Events will be hosting The World Blockchain Congress 29th & 30th which will be held at the Hotel Sofitel in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain on the 29th & 30th July 2018. This forum will be attended by over Top 150 Participants, Key Stakeholders and Blockchain enthusiast from across the Globe.

The global payments market is deeply fragmented. With rapidly evolving technologies, new regulations and increasing globalisation, it can be hard for players to keep up. The answer to simplifying these complexities? Standardisation.  

As it has done across a number of other industries, standardisation offers huge potential to deliver greater operational efficiency and meet a variety of core business challenges that when overcome, enables all payments industry stakeholders, including merchants, to get ahead of the competition in both domestic and international markets.