Insurwave, a joint venture between EY and Guardtime, has partnered with Xceptor to facilitate the digitisation and automation of the insurance market. Insurwave is the world’s first marine insurance blockchain platform and the partnership will digitise the wide variety of insurance documents, building out an extensive digital library of insurance documents to enable the automation of downstream processes.

Kantox, a leader in foreign exchange (FX) management solutions, has partnered with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, to offer cutting-edge FX management software to SVB’s corporate clients across the United Kingdom.

Templum Inc., a leading innovative financial technology company providing a marketplace for the primary issuance and secondary trading of alternative assets as smart securities, has appointed former AlphaPoint, TradingScreen, Lava Trading, and Bloomberg executive Brian Nadzan as Chief Technology Officer.

In this new role, Brian’s global expertise at some of the most successful financial services technology firms will be integral in driving Templum’s continuing efforts to create efficiency and liquidity in the private markets. 

 Nine leading financial technology (fintech) companies have been selected for the sixth annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, a 12-week mentorship program created by Accenture(NYSE: ACN).

Since the launch of the US office of CEX.IO Corp on July 4, CEX.IO’s regulatory compliance team has been tirelessly working with regulators to pass all required checks and audits and receive MTLs in new states. 

ULTUMUS, the leading global provider of data creation, management and distribution services for index and ETF products, today announces the hire of industry operations expert, Daniel Hodgetts as Index Operations Head.

Hodgetts will lead the global index and ETF support team based in London and Singapore and assist in the support of key clients as ULTUMUS roll its data managed data service out to a growing roster of asset managers, investments banks and exchanges.

Small businesses are often powered by passionate teams behind the scenes, and in today’s digital world, having savvy technology resources can help them achieve their goals. Salesforce joins Intuit in the U.S. 

Digital assets like bitcoin have exponentially outperformed competing asset classes such as the s&p500, nasdaq, gold & oil. The value of bitcoin has been rapidly increasing year after year due to a fixed supply (only 21M BTC will ever exist) and growing demand factor.