John Byrne, CEO of Corlytics, the world leader in regulatory risk intelligence, has expanded the leadership team to support a global growth strategy for the business. This follows the recent closing of a significant funding round, with the business poised to cement its leadership position in the growing regtech marketplace.

On April 19, Duncan Johnston-Watt, a member of the Hyperledger project and a serial entrepreneur, will speak at the annual Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia in Moscow. He will reveal details of the large-scale project and present the case study related to the use of its instruments.

IBM has recently announced about the launch of IBM Blockchain service based on the technology Hyperledger Fabric. It can be used for creating commercial offers and process more than a thousand of transactions per second.

Finantix, an established provider of sales and advisory software for financial services, announced today that Rothschild Bank AG has chosen Finantix to support its growing advisory business. The Finantix digital suite of components and engines will empower Rothschild Bank AG’s client advisers in their daily activities, support regulatory compliance of the advisory process and enhance digital client collaboration.

The share of British adults concerned about their future financial health has been slowly but steadily increasing since June 2016, according to a new survey of over 2,000 British adults by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, and ComRes.

Almost 1 in 5 (19%) British adults think their personal financial situation will worsen over the next six months, up from 16% in September 2016 and 14% in June 2016.

Seqr™, the innovative and easy mobile payment solution developed by Seamless, has joined forces with Mastercard to provide a contemporary and secure way to pay. Seqr continues to innovate by integrating Masterpass by Mastercard into its mobile payment app to provide even greater convenience to its consumers, by enabling them to make secure digital payments online, in-app and in-store. During the second quarter of 2017, Seqr customers will benefit from being able to shop and pay at hundreds of thousands of online stores, wherever Masterpass is accepted, globally.

 IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Global Exchange Reach, a premier, industry-leading connectivity solution that enables exchanges, alternative trading systems (ATSs), multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and other liquidity venues located in one part of the world to attract order flow and distribute market

We are now on the road to Brexit and a bumpy one it will be. Since the vote we have been urging clients to focus on building flexibility into their business models, although we hope that there will be no insurmountable Brexit problems, and possibly many new opportunities.

The triggering of Article 50 is a decision that the UK’s micro-business owners will have great concerns about, so I hope that the government will take their views into consideration as it negotiates our exit from the EU.

A new study commissioned by SafeCharge, a leader in advanced payment technologies, has revealed that payment outages and downtime are causing frequent disruption to merchants bottom line and growth abilities. The research ‘Payments, Interrupted’,conducted by WBR Digital, surveyed 200+ CFO, VP Finance, Payment Managers and Payments Controllers at large multinational retailers across Europe.

The Avaloq group, an international fintech company and leader in integrated and comprehensive banking solutions, has successfully completed the migration of Axion Swiss Bank to its business process outsourcing setup (BPO setup) based on the Avaloq Banking Suite. In September 2016, the specialised asset manager signed a long-term contract with Avaloq for full BPO services.