Moneynetint, UK based electronic e-money institution which provides cross-border money transfers and currency exchange for corporate clients around the world, announced that it had completed the integration phase with Ripple, which offers blockchain solutions for payments.

Euromoney TRADEDATA confirmed the launch of TRADEDATA Central, its cloud-based platform to boost distribution of golden source futures and options contract, symbology and regulatory data.

Retailers suffer from a frequent loss of network connectivity, with a significant impact on sales as a result.

•    72 per cent of retailers have suffered a loss of connectivity

•    44 per cent of retailers experience a loss of connectivity every month

•    The cost of a loss of connectivity could be up to 50% of sales for 5 out of 6 retail business operations

Over 40 startups from over 10 countries will be competing for the million dollar grant from the Government of Andhra Pradesh at the Vizag Fintech Festival that will be held between October 22 and 26.

The Government of Andhra Pradesh, in strategic collaboration with its challenge partners, DCF Ventures and BizofIT, have selected 40 startups globally, from Fintech, Agritech and Emergetech, for the finale of the $1 M challenge. The shortlisting of the startups was completed after the roadshow in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Let’s work backwards. Most banks know that the final deadline to comply with PSD2’s Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) is 14^th September 2019. Eleven months away. 

Following the amendments to the RTS, however (based on industry consultation and lobbying from third party providers), there is another deadline for banks to negotiate, which is much sooner and far less talked about: March 14^th, 2019.

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with SWIFT to offer its clients instant access to SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi). The collaboration enables ONPEX clients to send and receive funds more quickly and securely to anyone, anywhere with end-to-end tracking.

CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance trading, market data, and technical analysis tools, announced today a new partnership with Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI). Under the agreement, NFI will provide the web-based CQG Desktop platform to NFI customers as the official front-end for trading NFI’s U.S. Treasury Benchmark products.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, together with Google Cloud, today welcomed Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, Rt Hon Margot James MP to launch Atos' first artificial intelligence (AI) lab under the Atos and Google Cloud’s global partnership.

Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak today announced that he has become the co-founder of EQUI Global, the venture capital tech innovator.

Steve Wozniak has joined forces with EQUI founder Doug Barrowman and EQUI co-founder Baroness Michelle Mone OBE.