Financial Data Exchange Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Data
The Financial Data Exchange is celebrating its milestone two-year-old anniversary this week after launching in the Fall of 2018 with a goal of unifying the entire financial industry around a secure, common, interoperable and royalty-free standard for user-permissioned data sharing. “Our work has really just begun, but never in my wildest dreams did I think that FDX would grow this fast and accomplish this much in just two years,” said FDX...
VoxSmart Forms New ‘Markets’ Division to Be Headed Up by Former TPICAP and HSBC Execs
- 5 years 3 months ago
- RegTech
VoxSmart, the global leader in Communications Surveillance has selected two markets experts to create a new Markets division. Andrew Stone and Lloyd Jensen will help VoxSmart further strengthen their products and services for Financial Markets participants.
SEI Partners with Canoe Intelligence to Enhance Its Archway Platform
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Data
SEI (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced enhancements to its Archway PlatformSM to automate alternative investment data workflows involving a strategic partnership with Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company focused on reimagining data management processes for alternative investors and capital allocators.
Investment Into UK Impact Startups Up 10% Over Last 6 Years
- 5 years 3 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
New research from Tech Nation and Dealroom reveals that investment into UK impact startups increased 9.5x between 2014 and 2019. UK impact startups have raised €1.4B so far in 2020 with Cleantech and Climate tech companies raising the most capital of all UK impact startups.
Kneip Joins TISA Network to Ease Regulatory Reporting for Clients
- 5 years 3 months ago
- RegTech
Kneip, the global leader in fund data management, today announces it has joined TISA’s Universal Reporting Network (TURN). TURN is predicted to cut data and analytics costs for asset managers by between 80-90% per annum from year one and the utility, powered by Atos, aims to ease regulatory reporting requirements of MiFID II. The collaborative blockchain solution will be rolled out across Europe this quarter.
Grafton Capital takes majority ownership position in ‘fintech of fintechs’, Third Financial
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Investment
Private equity firm Grafton Capital has invested £7 million into Third Financial, the fast growing, innovative investment platform and software provider.
Local Business Crowdfunding Platform SeedIn Rebrands to BRDGE and Announces Planned Expansion Into Indonesia
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Investment Management
Singapore-based peer-to-peer (P2P) investment network SeedIn today announced its rebranding to BRDGE.
Funding Options and Cooper Parry Form Strategic Alliance to Support SME Growth
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Investment, Accounting
Funding Options, the leading marketplace for business finance, and fast-growing ‘rebels of accountancy’ Cooper Parry have joined forces to provide financial solutions for ambitious scale-ups and SMEs. Sharing a vision to make access to growth funding fast and as frictionless as possible, the strategic relationship will see Cooper Parry utilise Funding Options’ platform to source debt-based products for clients in need of working capital.
Fireblocks Secures Over $150B in Digital Assets
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Fireblocks (www.fireblocks.com) announced today that its institutional customers, which includes exchanges, lending desks, banks, OTC desks, liquidity providers and hedge funds, have now transferred more than $150 billion in digital assets using its platform.
Finding the Balance for 5G Deployment in Africa
- 5 years 3 months ago
- IT Innovations
Globally, there is much hype around 5G. In Africa, whilst that conversation undoubtedly has its place, solutions to Africa’s connectivity still require consideration around legacy 2G, 3G and even 4G networks, which remain the continent’s predominant connectivity sources. Taking a look at the global state of play of 5G and its place in Africa, or not, this year’s 5G Africa series, will form part of the virtual Africa Tech Festival.
SINNAD and Compass Plus to Offer Secure and Tokenised Mobile Payments in Bahrain
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Payments
SINNAD, a leading GCC third-party payment service provider based in Bahrain, has teamed up with trusted partner Compass Plus to enable its customer banks to offer consumers seamless and secure mobile payments through BenefitPay, the country’s national electronic wallet payment system. As part of the project, SINNAD successfully certified its processing centre, built on Compass Plus solutions, with the tokenisation service from Bahrain Electronic...
Itiviti to Move Entire Trading Platform to the Cloud via AWS
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Online Trading, Cloud
Itiviti, a leading technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, today announced the cloud transformation of its entire electronic trading platform. Itiviti opted for a hybrid private-public cloud strategy to reinforce the modularity and flexibility of the Itiviti platform. To operate the transformation, the company will collaborate with data center experts Data Canopy and technology and supply chain services specialist...
Nets Group Acquires Polskie ePłatności
- 5 years 3 months ago
- M&A Deals
The acquisition of the fast-growing Polish merchant acquirer PeP Newsdesk by Nets Group, one of Europe's leading payment providers, is now completed as the transaction has been approved by the relevant authorities.
OpenPayd Launches InstantFX Offering Real-Time FX
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Foreign Exchange
OpenPayd, the API-led Banking-as-a-Service provider, today announced the launch of InstantFX, its FX-as-a-Service product that provides clients with real-time trading, putting an end to the need for batch processing.
GoCardless Puts Payments in Motion for Brompton’s Bike Subscription Service
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Payments
Fueling the increasing demand for bikes, GoCardless, a leading fintech for recurring payments, has teamed up with Brompton, designers and makers of the iconic folding bike, to streamline the payments of ‘Brompton Bike Hire’.
