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Virtual Accounts: leading payment expert calls for major changes in Wolfsberg Group guidance around “On behalf of” payments

Virtual Accounts: leading payment expert calls for major changes in Wolfsberg Group guidance around “On behalf of” payments

Robert Lyddon is the current Director of Lyddon Consulting and former General Secretary of the IBOS Association secretariat in London...

Savers need more education on how to use the IFISA

Savers need more education on how to use the IFISA

Angus Dent, CEO, ArchOver UK savers are under a lot of pressure. Consumer interest rates remain low following the Bank of England’s re..

CoinDesk Expands With Launch of CoinDesk Productions

CoinDesk Expands With Launch of CoinDesk Productions

The launch coincides with the addition of two Bloomberg veterans to the CoinDesk Business Development Team CoinDesk Inc., the leading ..

Divido launches first multinational B2B finance solution for point of sale

Divido launches first multinational B2B finance solution for point of sale

London, June 5th, 2018– Divido, the retail finance platform, is today extending its proposition to provide a B2B finance solutio..

Deloitte strengthens leadership team in Scotland with key partner promotions

Deloitte strengthens leadership team in Scotland with key partner promotions

Business advisory firm Deloitte has strengthened its senior team in Scotland with the appointment of two new partners – Fintech ..

Token Enables Bank Direct Payments for Caxton FX Consumer and Business Customers

Token Enables Bank Direct Payments for Caxton FX Consumer and Business Customers

Empowers international FX leader to leverage open banking to offer a simple, fast and convenient way for customers to load their prepa..

Contis announces Visa partnership for the fast-track FinTech programme

Contis announces Visa partnership for the fast-track FinTech programme

New initiative provides FinTechs with rapid access to full banking and payments functionality Commitment to reduce on-boarding times..

Verifone Enables Businesses-On-The-Go By Launching a Multipurpose Camera on its Portable Payment Device

Verifone Enables Businesses-On-The-Go By Launching a Multipurpose Camera on its Portable Payment Device

Designed to support on-the-go small and mid-sized business merchants (SMBs), Verifone introduces a built-in camera/scanner for the Ver..

ING’s money management platform Yolt expands to France and Italy

ING’s money management platform Yolt expands to France and Italy

ING announced today that it’s expanding its money management platform Yolt to France and Italy. Yolt is ING’s smart money app in the U..

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Announces Soft Launch, Onboarding Pre-selected Institutional Clients and Pre-qualified Retail Traders

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange Announces Soft Launch, Onboarding Pre-selected Institutional Clients and Pre-qualified Retail Traders

The digital asset exchange will utilise its soft launch to develop optimised UI and UX Gibraltar – 01 JUNE, 2018– The Gibraltar Block..

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation with Algeria

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation with Algeria

On May 30, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation[1] with Algeria. A..

Traditional Security Defences May Prove Inadequate for Effective GDPR Strategies, Warns Aruba

Traditional Security Defences May Prove Inadequate for Effective GDPR Strategies, Warns Aruba

With future attacks on personal data almost certain, it’s time to add a new layer of security analytics and monitoring to enable fast ..

ID TECH Joins nexo standards as an Associate Member

ID TECH Joins nexo standards as an Associate Member

nexo standards, the international association dedicated to enabling fast, interoperable and borderless payments acceptance, today anno..

New figures show 31% increase in loan applications, as economists look for growth in consumer confidence

New figures show 31% increase in loan applications, as economists look for growth in consumer confidence

Hitachi Personal Finance has reported a 31% increase in the number of motoring, leisure and home improvement loans between 2015/16 an..

GDPR: Are your spreadsheets making you an easy target?

GDPR: Are your spreadsheets making you an easy target?

Ruth McFarland, ACA, Finance and Operations Manager, Synapse, writes about how to protect financial data on the move    The Data Prote..

Cardstack and DotBC Partnership Tackles Murky World of Music Rights

Cardstack and DotBC Partnership Tackles Murky World of Music Rights

Blockchain-based project puts music and media metadata back into hands of artists New York, NY— May 30, 2018 —Cardstack Syndicate Inc...

Game Changer: Ultra Announces Platform to Revolutionize Gaming Industry

Game Changer: Ultra Announces Platform to Revolutionize Gaming Industry

Former Xbox, Atari, Dell, Unity, Uber and Time Warner Executives Join Forces to Create Ultra The blockchain-powered platform aims to s..

Synechron opens new office and Financial Innovation Lab in Paris

Synechron opens new office and Financial Innovation Lab in Paris

Opening will support Synechron’s European growth and build local FinTech opportunities Paris, New York, London, Dubai, Pune, May 31st,..

KPMG and Google Enter an Alliance to Help Organisations Transform Digital Experiences

KPMG and Google Enter an Alliance to Help Organisations Transform Digital Experiences

New solutions combine Google Cloud’s security and artificial intelligence (AI) leadership with KPMG business acumen, industry knowledg..

HMRC report on Off Payroll shows worrying brain drain of contractors

HMRC report on Off Payroll shows worrying brain drain of contractors

Visionary to lead gamification of Jaxx Liberty platform  Toronto, Canada — May 31, 2018 —  Decentral Inc., Canada’s leading blockchain..

Bitfinex and Ethfinex Introduce Trading for Lympo, Utrust, BLOCKv, and DADI

Bitfinex and Ethfinex Introduce Trading for Lympo, Utrust, BLOCKv, and DADI

The new tokens currently have a combined market cap of $200 million Taipei, Taiwan – May 31, 2018 –Bitfinex, the world’s l..

ThinCats funds Evans Entwistle’s acquisition of SBMC Business Management

ThinCats funds Evans Entwistle’s acquisition of SBMC Business Management

Penarth-headquartered accountancy and business advisory firm, Evans Entwistle has secured a £450,000 funding facility from ThinCats to..

Navigating a buoyant M&A market: Does the deal corridor with the US or EU offer British companies the better scope for growth?

Navigating a buoyant M&A market: Does the deal corridor with the US or EU offer British companies the better scope for growth?

The UK is at the centre of a buoyant global M&A market.In the first quarter of this year, M&A activity involving British compa..

UK employment sector set for huge shift: Over 1.5 million people to trade in full-time work for ‘the gig economy’

UK employment sector set for huge shift: Over 1.5 million people to trade in full-time work for ‘the gig economy’

More than 6 million UK adults are already self-employed or working as a contractor, with 6% of full-time professionals looking to make..

Employers and the Government should support employees’ dependency on high-cost credit, says Neyber

Employers and the Government should support employees’ dependency on high-cost credit, says Neyber

According to Neyber, the Financial Conduct Authority’s announcement that it will crack down on high-cost credit can’t come soon enough..

UK Finance Responds To FCA’s Outcome Of High-Cost Credit Review

UK Finance Responds To FCA’s Outcome Of High-Cost Credit Review

Responding to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s publication of the outcome of its high-cost credit review, Eric Leenders, ..

Why so critical?: Making crypto credible

Why so critical?: Making crypto credible

By Erik Wilgenhof Plante, CCO at Sequant Capital Cryptocurrency, whether it is Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple or the others on the market, ..

CryptoIndustry Heavyweights Back Platform for Social Good, Social Alpha Foundation

CryptoIndustry Heavyweights Back Platform for Social Good, Social Alpha Foundation

The Hong Kong-based not-for-profit is the world’s first blockchain for social impact grant-making platform Hong Kong — May 31, 2018 — ..

Digital Disruption Is The New Face Of Banking

Digital Disruption Is The New Face Of Banking

By Christopher Baldwin, Head of Marketing, Northern Europe, Selligent Marketing Cloud Change is the only constant The writing is on t..

Angels and Assets: Should Wealth Managers Take an Interest in Angel Investment?

Angels and Assets: Should Wealth Managers Take an Interest in Angel Investment?

The economies of the world are more competitive than ever, running neck-and-neck with each other, and currently, Asia’s economy is lea..

Trunomi joins forces with Shyft Network to to launch fully interoperable Global e-ID framework and power Global ID and KYC

Trunomi joins forces with Shyft Network to to launch fully interoperable Global e-ID framework and power Global ID and KYC

Trunomi data rights management solution enters partnership with Shyft Network Amsterdam, the Netherlands — Trunomi, the industry’..

CIPURSE Specification Chosen for Fare Collection Solution in Moscow’s Innovation Hub

CIPURSE Specification Chosen for Fare Collection Solution in Moscow’s Innovation Hub

01 June 2018 – Global technical association, OSPT Alliance, today announces that its open, non-proprietary CIPURSE™ standard has been ..

How banks can stay relevant in a changing world

How banks can stay relevant in a changing world

Elina Mattila, Executive Director at Mobey Forum Earlier this week, futurists and innovators from across financial services industry g..

Menzies snaps up top forensic accounting specialist

Menzies snaps up top forensic accounting specialist

Top 20 accountancy firm, Menzies LLP, continues to grow its forensic accounting service by snapping up high profile forensic accountan..

AID:Tech partners with PharmAccess to Transform Antenatal Care in Tanzania Through Blockchain Technology 

AID:Tech partners with PharmAccess to Transform Antenatal Care in Tanzania Through Blockchain Technology 

Announcement comes as the initiative sees Africa’s first baby born on the blockchain Dublin, Ireland — June 1, 2018 — AID:..

Pelican Group launches PelicanPay – an Interoperable Pan-European API Hub

Pelican Group launches PelicanPay – an Interoperable Pan-European API Hub

The launch of PelicanPay gives fintechs and TPPs pan-European market access through a single-API – dramatically streamlining the onboa..

Orvium, The Decentralized Platform For Scholarly Publication, Counts CERN, NASA, Amazon and Oracle Experts in Senior Team

Orvium, The Decentralized Platform For Scholarly Publication, Counts CERN, NASA, Amazon and Oracle Experts in Senior Team

Token Generation Event announced for 2018 to fund development and foster platform use by the research community Orvium, the open-sourc..