Therese Tucker, CEO and founder of BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL), was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the 16^th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business held earlier this month in New York City.  

Cardpay – global fintech provider and fast-growing payment processor is expanding into the eCommerce market of Mexico. Providing its payment solution to millions of unbanked customers and eCommerce businesses alike. Through Cardpay, businesses can take payments using local payment methods commonly accepted by popular retailers like Walmart, 7eleven, Superama and Extra.

Credit Suisse announces the internal launch of AccessFintech’s trading exception management solution.

Following a successful pilot, Credit Suisse has gone live with AccessFintech’s Global Exception Network, taking an important step towards streamlining exception management resolution across the Prime Brokerage industry. The new technology will reduce the time needed to resolve exceptions and help clear bottlenecks that could prevent trade settlements. It will promote better client servicing, minimize sanctions and reduce costs for all parties.

The French Fintech Particeep has closed a Venture Loan funding agreement with La Banque Wormser Frères. This innovative funding brings the amount raised by the FinTech since its inception to 2.5 million euros and will enable it to strengthen its business development in France and abroad as well as its efforts in research and development.

A large part of the answer is to involve them in the development of new software solutions.

An interview with JF Sullivan, Chief Product Officer for IRIS Software Group, and Nick Gregory, Chief Marketing Manager for IRIS Software Group

For me, founding NorthRow wasn’t just about the business opportunity, but a chance to make a difference to the devastating effects that fraud and other forms of financial crime can have on individuals and companies. Witnessing the corrosive effect of fraud on a family business was a key inspiration and I’ve embraced the opportunity to use my background in software, data and business to found a venture that now digitally transforms clients’ onboarding and monitoring processes, helps prevent fraud and also ensures regulatory compliance.

The problem
The cost of the current financial regulatory landscape is estimated at over 5% of the total revenue of the industry. This number is expected to double over the next 5 to 10 years. With over 50,000 regulatory rules and guidance being issued since the 2009 Crisis, the regtech council have penned the term law’s law in deference to Moore’s law view about technology, in that the number of regulations could be seen to have doubled every year since 2009 with no retreat in sight.

Financial IT speaks with Miroslav Petrov, Product Director of Fortia at FinTECHTalents 2019. Fortia is a Paris based company attending FinTECHTalents event for the first time. During the interview, Miroslav Petrov highlights the importance of AI for the operational business of customers. 

Diginex, a blockchain technology and digital assets services and advisory company, has appointed Thibault Verbiest as Head of Regulatory Affairs for Europe & Africa. He will oversee the legal and compliance functions of the company in the region while managing its relations with regulators across those continents.