• Historically ranked 2^nd in the IESE Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index, the UK is projected to see a fall of at least four positions two years after leaving the EU

• The 2018 edition of the index sees the US take the world’s number 1, followed by the UK (2), Canada (3), Hong Kong (4) and Japan (5)

Rakuten Aquafadas, expert in digital publishing, interactive content and app creation, part of the Rakuten Group, announce a new partnership with a training provider for health professionals Orion Santé. Following a few months of collaboration Orion Santé have launched their new web, smartphone and tablet mobile app based on a new generation and highly scalable Rakuten Aquafadas technology. The app is first of this kind in this sector and is aimed at trainers and medical staff. 

ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, has extended its successful partnership with LiquidMetrix to deliver MiFIDII best execution reporting to multiple European Sell-Side clients. The solution, UL PUBLISHER for Best Execution, teams ULLINK’s fully-automated, post-trade data management hub with the LiquidMetrix Workstation for MiFID II best execution reporting.

Currently, there’s an inequality that exists between employed and self-employed workers.

What makes self-employment so tough is that there is rarely any kind of safety net in place to help protect from the unforeseen. Statutory benefits that workers expect, such as sick pay, maternity pay or pension provision, aren’t there for the self-employed. 

To further enable companies to integrate reputation into their strategic decision making, Reputation Institute (RI) has acquired London-based big data media analytics company Mettle Consulting Limited.

We would like to invite you to the upcoming 2018 EMEA Trading Conference organised by FIX Trading Community. The event will bring together 900+ senior market participants on the 15 March 2018 at Old Billingsgate, London.

More than 400 leaders in the industry of fintech will gather in Dubai this month to showcase innovation in their sector, highlighting the future of fintech for the global and regional markets.

Held in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Finance, and showing off the latest products in action as well as boosting the UAE as an international hub for fintech, FinovateMiddleEast will take place from 26-27 February at the Madinat Jumierah Conference Centre.

• Charles Radclyffe leaves Deutsche Bank Labs with 15 years’ of industry expertise to accelerate the growth of NetKernel®, a company that delivers transformational high-performance, energy efficient computing.
• Through public speaking and thought leadership, including a popular recent TEDx talk, Charles brings insightful and creative leadership to the growing FinTech disrupter.
• NetKernel® is a breakthrough new computational engine that enables banks to perform complex calculations at scale while minimising the cost of data transfer.

The conversation in electronic corporate bond trading has shifted away from focusing strictly on liquidity to gathering data and analyzing relative bond pricing.

“The Holy Grail in the marketplace is pre-trade transparency and it’s very hard to get that transparency,” said James Switzer, head of credit trading at Alliance Bernstein speaking at Tabb Group’s Fixed Income 2018 conference.