Tasnim Ghiawadwala has joined Barclays as the new Head of UK Corporate Banking. 

Tasnim joins the bank from Citi, where she spent 21 years most recently as Head of Commercial Bank Europe, Middle East and Africa.  At Citi, she held a range of roles across Investment Banking, Corporate and Commercial Bank, and Regional Management and worked at JP Morgan and Commercial Union prior to Citi.

Concerns about ad safety and the quality of digital inventory have clearly had an impact on the mix of adspend in 2018.  News brands and magazines seem to have benefitted from a ‘flight to quality’, significantly reducing the decline in spend on these channels to an average of 7% (compared to 13% in H1-17). Given the uncertainty created by Brexit and challenges facing the UK consumer, growth in adspend significantly above expectations, and well ahead of inflation is certainly positive for media owners.

OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics, announced today that Beaxy, the all-in-one cryptocurrency exchange has exclusively built their matching engine on OneTick, OneMarketData’s flagship high performance analytics and data management platform. This partnership will allow faster transactions, unique and advanced order types and an overall smoother flow in order books. 

It is a known fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened diverse opportunities in the world of technology, but it is no secret that the economic impact of AI has also been momentous for its adopters.

Come 2030, AI based initiatives will pump 12.8 trillion Euros into the global economy!^*

Caught up in the global frenzy to prove dominance in the realm of AI, the European Union which was still very recently nascent in its AI advancements, has now set up extensive AI strategies to further boost its economy.

GFX, the Hong Kong based customer loyalty platform, has announced the next step in its evolution.

In addition to its powerful customer loyalty network driven by blockchain technology, the company has embarked on the second stage of its vision, that of investing in projects that will add synergy to its proposed eco-system set to integrate multiple industries.

Moving forward, GFX will focus half their operations on their loyalty program and half on implementing their investment vision.

Cryptocurrency's sharp bull-bear reversals over the last nine years have made for a dizzying investor experience. The unruly digital money has leaped from zero to $200 billion capitalization and minted tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of fresh millionaires, and an unknown number of paupers. In 2017 alone, Bitcoins surged from $1,000 to more than $10,000 each, only to fall back to earth again and again this year.

• The Mobile Wallets market is booming: the European rollout of Google Pay, Apple Pay's new product announcements, Samsung Pay launched last spring, and WeChat Pay is already a massive success in China. 
• With Mobile Wallets, marketers can finally get into the Millennial mobile-first era by moving from post-app to the Mobile Moments phase. 

Managing SaaS spend hasn’t been easy but has quickly become business critical. According to Gartner, as much as 30% of software licences are wasted through insufficient licence management, and with the average organisation using around 13 cloud-based apps, the cost of that wastage is spiralling.

Spreadsheets, calendars and single sign on are no match for the constant influx of new cloud apps, of which many can be unsanctioned.

Commerzbank and Societe Generale announce the signature of a Business Purchase Agreement for Commerzbank’s Equity Markets & Commodities business (EMC). On 3 July 2018, both banks already announced an agreement for the sale of Commerzbank’s EMC business to Societe Generale. The transaction has been approved by the employee representative committees in Germany and remains subject to the approval by relevant authorities.