Competition amongst exchanges was a defining theme in MiFID I, but when it comes to best execution and trading venue fee structures, MiFID II might reverse some of that.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today its participation in the annual WMA Summit 2016 that is taking place on 9 November in The Grange Hotel Tower Bridge, London.

Visa Inc. today announced a preview of Visa B2B Connect, a new platform that Visa is developing to give financial institutions a simple, fast and secure way to process business-to-business payments globally.

FIA announced that Money.Net is the winner of the 2016 FIA Expo Innovator of the Year award.  The winner was announced during the second day of the Futures and Options Expo, which drew more than 5,100 registrants this year. 

 Mastercard cardholders and Android device users in Hong Kong now have even more ways to shop easily and securely on-the-go as Android Pay launches in the city!

A friend of mine, CCO at a large advertising network, recently asked me: What will impact digital creation in the next years?

He was looking for cultural insights from Asia, but my answer wasn’t what he had expected: FinTech and the digital transformation of the banking industry.

Huh?

Winter is coming

Let's see – The role of creation and advertising in the 20th century was clearly defined as fruitful partner for marketing with the juicy target of awareness.

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and Thomson Reuters today announced that Morgan Stanley has joined the LBMA Silver Price as a new member. CME Group and Thomson Reuters operate the Silver Price.

Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm, will be the seventh participant joining China Construction Bank, HSBC Bank USA NA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, The Toronto Dominion Bank and UBS AG. They will first participate in the Silver price auction on October 25, 2016.

SharingAlpha, a user generated fund ratings and model portfolios platform, has become the world’s largest fund rating agency in terms of the number of Fund Analysts contributing to its ratings.

It’s intriguing to find more and more banks creating digital heads.  I meet them regularly, I’m the digital head of retail banking; I’m the digital head of retail business banking; I’m the digital head of the investment bank; I’m the digital head of our transaction banking business; I’m the digital head of our commercial bank; and so on.  You get the idea.  Lots and lots of digital heads, but who’s the daddy?