Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank (apoBank) has appointed Avaloq to take its digitalisation to the next level. The Avaloq Banking Suite offers all benefits of an innovative, yet market-proven solution for apoBank to consequently execute its digital strategy. Avaloq’s involvement will expand the bank’s product offering and enhance the digital client experience.

Equity Trustees has adopted Milestone Group’s pControl Oversight solution to further boost its professional funds governance capability.

“As Australia’s leading provider of Responsible Entity services, we know that to maintain our lead we need to adopt the best solutions to ensure we can adapt to an ever-changing regulatory environment” said Harvey Kalman, Executive General Manager, Corporate Trustee Services (CTS), Equity Trustees.

TrackActive, a digital health provider, has entered into a collaboration with reinsurer Gen Re to deliver innovation solutions to their life and health clients in the global insurance market.

Kurtosys today announced the results of its annual survey, which seeks to find out how marketers at asset management firms are reacting to changes in the digital landscape. The report revealed that almost half (48%) of all respondents believed that regulation would be the most disruptive force to the asset management industry, even more so than the likes of fintech startups and developments in blockchain technology.

Avaya announced today its communications technologies have helped O-Bank (Wangdao) become Taiwan’s first, all-digital, online-only bank. Supported by Avaya multi-channel Customer Engagement technologies - including Avaya Breeze - O-Bank now solely serves customers located anywhere via mobile, video, voice and other online banking channels.

As a digital bank, O-Bank can expand both the hours of customer service and its geographic reach. Customers conduct transactions with the bank using mobile apps or Web access.

Leading cyber-security software specialist ZoneFox has today announced the release of its fully hosted platform. Utilising the exact same roster of intelligent technology designed to help companies protect their data, hunt threats, and remain compliant, ZoneFox can reside remotely in the highly secure ZoneFox cloud. ZoneFox’s platform is the most secure, fast, and cost-effective route for clients to access the award-winning technology, and is available within minutes of the endpoint agents being deployed.

Exscudo, the financial ecosystem which unites cryptocurrency markets and traditional finance is happy to announce the beginning of the bug bounty program. Bug bounty officially started on October, 9. A few weeks earlier the project also launched the EON blockchain public testing (testnet).

Exscudo is developing a number of sophisticated products, including a trading platform, a mobile wallet, a decentralized messenger and a b2b merchant. Therefore, the bug bounty campaign will have several stages, starting with the EON blockchain & node testing.

KICKICO, the blockchain startup revolutionizing the crowdfunding industry, announces the trade of KICK Tokens on EXMO, one of Russia’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges where KICK will be the first Ethereum-based token to trade.

•     This Golden Week, Alipay users conducted eight times as many in-store transactions overseas as they did last year.

•     Asia dominated the list of top-ten destinations in terms of transaction volume.

o     Hong Kong topped the list, followed by Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

•     Asia also saw much of the fastest growth in Alipay use from last year.