TradeIX Limited, today unveiled its revolutionary TIX Platform, the first open platform that rewires trade finance powered by blockchain technology. 

The FinTech50 revealed the fifty hottest FinTech businesses in Europe, as selected by an international panel of industry experts, at an exclusive launch event in London.

Chosen from a long-list of over 1,500 companies across Europe, The Fintech50 2017 – the most hotly contested in its five-year history – features 24 businesses new to the list. 

This year’s list shines a spotlight on companies leading the evolution of financial services by reducing complexity and cost, expanding access to finance for individuals and businesses, and making money for their customers.

Asset Control, the leading provider of financial data management solutions, is proud to announce its ranking as a point solution provider in the Chartis RiskTech Quadrant for Sell-Side Risk Management Systems 2017.

In the executive summary to this new report, Chartis Research highlight how “a number of regulatory and business developments have had a profound effect on the industry, transforming the requirements sell-side firms have of their technology and how vendors are responding”.

BT today announced the launch of BT Managed Endpoint Access Security, a new security service protecting organisations from cyber threats and malware through greater visibility and better monitoring of devices connected to their corporate network.

Addepar, the operating system for our financial world, today announced it has closed a $140 million Series D funding round, co-led by Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, and QuantRes founder Harald McPike. 

With many organisations still working on POC’s for blockchain technology, FinTech Network have partnered with Melonport to demonstrate how smart contracts could have made a fundamental difference in two of the highest profile finance scandals and mitigated the loss of millions of dollars: http://bit.ly/2qTGlrT 

This opinion piece, authored by Melonport, focuses on:

Appian today announced that its low-code platform for digital transformation is available on the G-Cloud 9 framework. G-Cloud 9 is a digital marketplace that enables the UK public sector to find people and technology for projects across the government.

Employees who become distracted at work are more likely to be the cause of human error and a potential security risk, according to a snapshot poll conducted by Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity services, at Europe’s leading infosecurity event, Infosec Europe in London this week.

NEX Regulatory Reporting, a NEX Group business which provides regulatory reporting services across worldwide regulatory regimes, and Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalisation and reconciliation services, today announce that NEX Regulatory Reporting is to use Duco’s technology to provide MiFID II reconciliation to their clients.

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, announced today the release of a new corporate action event, Further Public Offering (FPO).

The addition of the FPO event enhances existing services by providing full details of company securities post Initial Public Offering (IPO), including any additional allocations made available to the deal’s underwriters via ‘greenshoe’ options.