Commerzbank, Deutsche Börse and MEAG, the Asset Manager of Munich Re and ERGO, have reached a further step in examining the scope of distributed ledger technology in post-trade services. The partners successfully completed the settlement of a legally binding secondary market securities transaction via tokens; Commerzbank further used the tokenized cash as collateral at Eurex Clearing as Central Counterparty.

Talent Alpha – a technology startup from Poland - has won the Startup Award Grand Prix at the UNLEASH World Conference in Paris. The company addresses the global tech talent gap by opening up access to IT specialists working in small & medium-sized IT Services Providers. Today up to 700,000 IT professionals can be unleashed onto the global talent market thanks to Talent Alpha’s Human Cloud Platform.

Amit Dua speaks about the customer experience in banking industry and digital transformation

Arun talks about the fintech trends in APAC region and digital transformation of banks

Today, blockchain monitoring platform PARSIQ announced a new partnership with BC Vault, a state-of-the-art hardware wallet with industry-defining features for secure crypto storage. By commencing this partnership, and in using PARSIQ’s features, BC Vault will become first crypto hardware wallet with active blockchain monitoring abilities, providing additional security to users and ensuring transparency of transactions.

Capitalise.com, the leading business funding platform for accountants, has today announced a partnership with small business lender, iwoca, and a high street bank, to launch Instant Offers. The partnership enables accountants to receive instant quotes on funding applications for their clients. Accountants benefit from offering their clients exceptional customer service with instant quotations and eligibility on suitable financial products whilst lenders can onboard high credit quality businesses, faster. 

 TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, congratulates Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport for both winning its sixth consecutive FIA Formula One™ World Constructors’ Championship and for celebrating 125 years of motorsport. With TIBCO’s data and analytics solutions helping to deliver peak performance both on and off the track, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport is able to interconnect systems and unify data in real time.

Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today further expanded its white label offerings* to Asia enabling customers of third-party money transfer companies to pay out through Western Union.

Not too long ago, Neil Woodford was still regularly being heralded as a “superstar” manager and the “Oracle of Oxford”. How different the story is today. 

The reasons behind Woodford’s fall from grace have been extensively covered, but can largely be attributed to the fact that ultimately the Equity Income Fund did not do what it said it would, and Woodford ran it unchecked. If investors had been fully aware of the investments being made into unlisted and illiquid stocks, would they have kept their money in?