Blockchain, the leading provider of cryptocurrency products including the world’s most popular crypto wallet, has hired former Blackrock (NYSE:BLK) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) executive Howard Surloff to advance the gold standard for legal, compliance, and corporate governance within the cryptocurrency industry. Surloff brings over 25 years of executive experience to Blockchain’s Executive Team as its new General Counsel.

Bringing together the most dynamic decision-makers and visionary leaders shaping the future of money across Asia Pacific, Money20/20 Asia will shine a spotlight on the most influential factors transforming the trajectory of money in the region. The three-day, action-packed and content-rich event will headline in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Conference Centre on 24-26 March 2020, with over 3000 global decision makers having attended in 2019.

Mumbai-based Airpay Payment Services, India’s only omni-channel payments platform, has announced a partnership with InstaReM, one of the world’s fastest-growing digital cross-border payments companies, to launch “FX Payment”, an international payments solution for its merchants. 

 ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has been awarded a temporary permission regime (TPR) by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This status will allow the EEA-based payment institution to continue providing financial services to new and existing regulated businesses within its current passporting permissions in the UK.

valantic, the worldwide leading supplier of electronic trading software, and UBS Bond Port, the global cash bond agency business of UBS, are announcing the iQbonds trading gateway connecting valantic iQbonds clients to Bond Port. iQbonds is valantic’s high-performance solution for electronic bond trading: Market making, bond pricing as well as the connection to electronic markets, exchanges and data platforms are integrated into one application which now includes Bond Port.

NatWest has today announced a collaboration with Microsoft, and Artificial Intelligence specialist DreamQuark, in developing Next Generation Complex Analytics. The work will allow the bank to simulate behaviours of different environments such as financial markets or transport networks, processing it into meaningful patterns and insights that help to accurately predict future outcomes.

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Financial IT speaks with Darryl Proctor, Product Director, Payments & Universal Banking at Sibos 2019