A global leader in online multi-asset trading, OANDA today announced the integration of Chasing Returns’ risk management technology into their award-winning trading platform. OANDA’s retail clients will now enjoy access to the Trading Performance Management portal, powered by Chasing Returns.

SIA won the tender to connect ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, to EBA Clearing’s pan-European instant payments infrastructure RT1. Thanks to SIAnet, the fiber optic network with high speed and low latency stretching over 170,000 kilometers, ABN AMRO was one of the early users to introduce instant payments.

Zichain, a Switzerland-based digital asset management company, is pleased to announce that it has secured an USD 1.2m investment from a syndicate of UHNW Hong-Kong based investors, supporting further development of its unique cryptocurrency products. 

The deal was confirmed while the Company was participating at the Goldman Sachs 2018 Disruptive Technology Symposium, held in London on 20-21 March.

Averon, developer of the world’s first mobile identity verification standard that is both automatically frictionless and ultra-secure, announced today it has closed a $5 million Series A1 financing round led by Avalon Ventures and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. The round follows Averon’s heavily oversubscribed Series A (October 2017), also led by Avalon Ventures, bringing the full Series A amount raised to $13.3 million.

Objectway, a leading provider of investment management and digital software solutions to the global financial services industry, announced today its distribution partnership with BML Istisharat.

The well-known Lebanon-based banking software provider will distribute Objectway’s solutions for Digital Wealth Management and Robo-Advisory to wealth and investment managers in the Levant and Gulf regions, and in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) more generally. 

CoInvestor Connect, CoInvestor’s alternative asset investment platform for sophisticated private investors, has expanded its offering with the addition of private equity funds to the platform.

CoInvestor has continually strengthened its offering since its inception in 2016, transforming the management of alternative assets by digitising this traditionally offline, paper-based asset class.

LexinFintech Holdings Ltd., a leading online consumer finance platform for educated young adults in China, today announced the appointment of Dr. Neng Wang as an independent director of the Company's board of directors (the "Board"), and the appointment of Mr. Xiaoguang Wu as a director of the Board, effective on March 20, 2018. These two appointments have expanded the Board to eight members, from six previously.

Following 12 years of successfully processing the credit card acquiring for the 104 warehouses of METRO Cash & Carry Deutschland GmbH, Eschborn-based full-service payment provider Concardis is now supplying the multichannel payment platform Payengine for the new outdoor online shop of the wholesale company. Using this platform, customers in gastronomy can order numerous products online for the outdoor season from the current catalogue.

 Finastra welcomed several APAC Fintech early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open architecture ecosystem today at its regional flagship thought leadership event, Finastra Universe, in Singapore. Underpinned by Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-ready trusted cloud platform, FusionFabric.cloud enables third parties t