On October 11, London will host the major conference, ICO Event London 2017, dedicated to a popular investment generation tool called Initial Coin Offering. 

The event will involve blockchain and cryptocurrency experts, venture investors, lawyers and startup founders, raising a great startup capital due to the ICO. 

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces it has been named a global Leader by Everest Group in its latest PEAK Matrix™ Assessment for Workplace Services. Furthermore, Atos has been positioned as a ‘Star Performer’, based on its relative year-on-year performance and movement on the PEAK Matrix. Atos is the only European service provider in the assessment to be ranked as a global Leader and also the only European-based ‘Star Performer’.

Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management LLP have co-led in a US$5 million Series A funding round in 

Award winning payments group, Secure Trading, has today announced its new strategic partnership with COMO Global S.A., the intelligent payments marketplace, enabling it to extend its industry leading payment gateway services to more of the world’s foremost payment providers and merchants. 

Slaughter and May, the international law firm, today announces that applications for the second cohort of Fintech Fast Forward, its fintech entrepreneurs programme, are now being accepted. 

Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has today announced a new service that will help to simplify clients’ daily accounting processes and save them time so they can concentrate on growth.

Payza, an award-winning payments technology company, is proud to announce the launch of its latest cryptocurrency feature: Cryptocurrency Address Manager. 

Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL®, MongoDB® and other open source database solutions and services, today unveiled the full conference schedule for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017, taking place September 25-27, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hote

For many startups that have undergone an ICO-stage within the last couple of years, the time following the ICO is more important than the ICO itself, as this is the time when ideas can be truly evaluated on the point of their viability and profitability. To put it more simple, that's the time to get the real work done - the IT development, the technical implementation, the product release and so on. Not every project makes it until this stage. Enough said and written about these kinds of projects, let's look at the exceptions.