On May 19, Prague will host the largest conference in the Eastern Europe, dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague. One of its topics will be optimization of labor market with the help of blockchain.

The topic will be covered by Jonathan Chester (USA), the founder and president of the international service BitWage, and author of Fintech articles in Forbes.

123ContactForm, which has helped more than a million users worldwide build online forms and surveys, announced today that it now supports Square payments. Square, a leading payment gateway that also enables merchants to accept payments with a physical device for swiping credit cards, handles millions of transactions across Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Bitcoin may be the talk of the moment, but did you realize that Bitcoin is simply a tip of an iceberg as far as cryptocurrencies are involved? The huge achievement of Bitcoin has evoked the advancement of numerous cryptocurrencies, and which are oftentimes called Altcoins. The entire world of digital currencies is currently getting bombarded with these Altcoins.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation (ICBI), a part of IBM Research, are collaborating to jointly develop a module on financial technology, to better equip students with essential knowledge and skill sets in this area.

Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity services, today announced significant enhancements to its best-in-class privileged identity management (PIM) solution to stop breaches that abuse privilege.

Ipreo, a leading global provider of market intelligence and workflow solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, announced its solution for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to the sell-side syndicate banks on fixed-income new issues, with buy-side trading systems using the FIX Protocol. 

The future success of the financial industry, to a large degree, resides on the pillars: trust, transparency and client-enablement.Technology paves the way for an effective implementation of these ingredients of modern banking. Against this backdrop, Avaloq has gone into partnership with IBO to enable performance rankings in banking, and to increase trust in financial services.

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has been re-certified as 'Built for NetSuite' against the latest NetSuite release 2017.1. The company’s re-certification by NetSuite means that Coupa is able to connect to NetSuite quickly (often within one day) using pre-built NetSuite connectors. This allows customers to spend less time building and maintaining technical integrations and more time focusing on getting fast value from their spend management initiative.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has appointed Deborah A. Bussière as Global Chief Marketing Officer, effective May 8.

In this role, Bussière will be responsible for directing Broadridge’s global marketing functions, including execution of the company’s brand strategy, product marketing efforts, corporate communications, and digital and social media marketing. She will report to Chris Perry, President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions, Broadridge.