This Friday, after 6 months of heavy planning, organising and negotiating, the first community-shaped blockchain conference will take place in Kromhouthal, Amsterdam. The team has developed a network of brands, enterprises and experts that will create a memorable event for blockchain industry. But what exactly is Chainges?

Let’s check it in numbers:

Major conference on AI, ML and Sentiment Analysis in Finance, London, 27 - 28 June 2018

• Introducing Dell EMC PowerMax, the world's fastest storage array built for mission-critical applications of today and tomorrow 
• PowerMax engineered with end-to-end NVMe, ready for Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVMe over Fabrics 
• Dell EMC VxBlock System 1000 will support end-to-end NVMe with PowerMax for extreme performance without compromise for mission-critical applications 
• Dell EMC XtremIO adds native replication, new entry point X-Brick system at up to 55% lower cost than previous generation and support for VxBlock 1000 

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it is closing 162 branches across England and Wales.

The bank said that 792 jobs would go as a result and staff would be offered voluntary redundancy.

RBS branches in England and Wales, and the NatWest business in Scotland, had been earmarked for a new "challenger bank" under the name Williams & Glyn.

However, that project is now not going ahead and the bank has reviewed its branch network.

Some 109 branches will close in late July and August 2018, while a further 53 branches will close in November 2018.

Equus Software, a leader in global mobility software, today announced the launch of 

The New Payment Systems Operator (NPSO) has announced that it has taken over responsibility for the operation of Bacs and Faster Payments. The completion of this transaction represents a significant milestone for the payments industry and is the latest step in a series of developments bringing wholesale change to UK payments.

The NPSO set up the Payments Strategy Forum back in 2015 to deliver collaborative innovation and tackle long-standing problems in the payments industry. The completion of this transaction is a significant occasion for several reasons: