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NetworkNewsWire Announces Official Newswire Status, Media Sponsorship of FFCON20: RISE Event
NEW YORK, Feb. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NetworkWire – NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company and part of the InvestorBrandNetwork (“IBN”), is pleased to announce its continued collaboration with the National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (“NCFA”) and Toronto Finance International (“TFI”). NNW will serve as the official newswire partner for FFCON20: RISE, FFCON’s sixth annual Fintech & Funding Conference and Expo, held March 23–24, in Toronto. Co-hosted by NCFA and TFI, this premier event is designed to bring people together to focus on challenging and growing the Canadian fintech industry and bringing markets to life.
“We are pleased to be the official newswire of FFCON20: RISE and to be working with NCFA again,” said Jonathan Keim, communications director for NNW. “As with all our sponsored events, we will be utilizing InvestorBrandNetwork’s powerful suite of resources to bring greater awareness to the FFCON conference as well as the participants.”
As an official dissemination partner, NNW will distribute FFCON20 news and announcements. NNW will also release additional syndicated articles created by professional writers and communication experts. Information on the event will be further distributed through IBN, which has 1+ million social media followers collectively across 40+ brands.
FFCON20: RISE is expected to attract more than 750 attendees, participants and sponsors from leading fintech startups and scaleups, investors, industry leaders and key stakeholders. The two-day conference and expo is designed to provide invaluable opportunities for those in attendance to develop leads, discover new market channels, and forge partnerships around innovation, technology and financing outcomes.
A financial innovation ecosystem, the National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA) provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to the fintech community. The group is a network of entrepreneurs, investors and participants in the emerging fintech economy, with a growing membership that includes consultants, marketing and media specialists, investors, lawyers, accountants and social enterprise groups that support and encourage innovative capital markets and financial services.
In the past, NCFA and NNW worked together to heighten the visibility of VanFUNDING, a leading fintech and capital conference that explores the explosive growth happening relative to blockchain, AI, fintech and funding innovations, global market developments and alternative investing opportunities.
“We are thrilled to have NetworkNewsWire as an FFCON20: RISE media sponsor and active participant in the marketing efforts,” said Craig Asano, NCFA Founder and CEO. “This conference is a high-exposure opportunity for participants who wish to get involved as event partners while connecting with leading experts and investors interested in helping fintech businesses achieve success in funding and scaling efforts. NNW has the expertise, tools and global partnerships in place to share that message and bring added awareness to this must-attend event.”
Additional details about the FFCON20: RISE, slated for March 23–24 in Toronto, can be found at https://fintechandfunding.com.
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Central banks and the FinTech sector unite to change global payments space
The BIS, along with seven leading central banks and a cohort of private financial firms, has embarked on an ambitious venture known as Project Agorá.
Named after the Greek word for “marketplace,” this initiative stands at the forefront of exploring the potential of tokenisation to significantly enhance the operational efficiency of the monetary system worldwide.
Central to this pioneering project are the Bank of France (on behalf of the Eurosystem), the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Korea, the Bank of Mexico, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These institutions have joined forces under the banner of Project Agorá, in partnership with an extensive assembly of private financial entities convened by the Institute of International Finance (IIF).
At the heart of Project Agorá is the pursuit of integrating tokenised commercial bank deposits with tokenised wholesale central bank money within a unified, public-private programmable financial platform. By harnessing the advanced capabilities of smart contracts and programmability, the project aspires to unlock new transactional possibilities that were previously infeasible or impractical, thereby fostering novel opportunities that could benefit businesses and consumers alike.
The collaborative effort seeks to address and surmount a variety of structural inefficiencies that currently plague cross-border payments. These challenges include disparate legal, regulatory, and technical standards; varying operating hours and time zones; and the heightened complexity associated with conducting financial integrity checks (such as anti-money laundering and customer verification procedures), which are often redundantly executed across multiple stages of a single transaction due to the involvement of several intermediaries.
As a beacon of experimental and exploratory projects, the BIS Innovation Hub is committed to delivering public goods to the global central banking community through initiatives like Project Agorá. In line with this mission, the BIS will soon issue a call for expressions of interest from private financial institutions eager to contribute to this ground-breaking project. The IIF will facilitate the involvement of private sector participants, extending an invitation to regulated financial institutions representing each of the seven aforementioned currencies to partake in this transformative endeavour.
Source: fintech.globa
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TD Bank inks multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud
TD Bank has inked a multi-year deal with Google Cloud as it looks to streamline the development and deployment of new products and services.
The deal will see the Canadian banking group integrate the vendor’s cloud services into a wider portion of its technology solutions portfolio, a move which TD expects will enable it “to respond quickly to changing customer expectations by rolling out new features, updates, or entirely new financial products at an accelerated pace”.
This marks an expansion of the already established relationship between TD Bank and Google Cloud after the group previously adopted the vendor’s Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for TD Securities Automated Trading (TDSAT), the Chicago-based subsidiary of its investment banking unit, TD Securities.
TDSAT uses GKE for process automation and quantitative modelling across fixed income markets, resulting in the development of a “data-driven research platform” capable of processing large research workloads in trading.
Dan Bosman, SVP and CIO of TD Securities, claims the infrastructure has so far supported TDSAT with “compute-intensive quantitative analysis” while expanding the subsidiary’s “trading volumes and portfolio size”.
TD’s new partnership with Google Cloud will see the group attempt to replicate the same level of success across its entire portfolio.
Source: fintechfutures.com
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MAS launches transformative platform to combat money laundering
The MAS has unveiled Cosmic, an acronym for Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Information and Cases, a new money laundering platform.
According to Business Times, launched on April 1, Cosmic stands out as the first centralised digital platform dedicated to combating money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing on a worldwide scale. This move follows the enactment of the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Act 2023, which, along with its subsidiary legislation, commenced on the same day to provide a solid legal foundation and safeguards for information sharing among financial institutions (FIs).
Cosmic enables participating FIs to exchange customer information when certain “red flags” indicate potential suspicious activities. The platform’s introduction is a testament to MAS’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the financial sector, mandating participants to establish stringent policies and operational safeguards to maintain the confidentiality of the shared information. This strategic approach allows for the efficient exchange of intelligence on potential criminal activities while protecting legitimate customers.
Significantly, Cosmic was co-developed by MAS and six leading commercial banks in Singapore—OCBC, UOB, DBS, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered—which will serve as participant FIs during its initial phase. The initiative emphasizes voluntary information sharing focused on addressing key financial crime risks within the commercial banking sector, such as the misuse of legal persons, trade finance, and proliferation financing.
Loo Siew Yee, assistant managing director for policy, payments, and financial crime at MAS, highlighted that Cosmic enhances the existing collaboration between the industry and law enforcement authorities, fortifying Singapore’s reputation as a well-regulated and trusted financial hub. Similarly, Pua Xiao Wei of Citi Singapore and Loretta Yuen of OCBC have expressed their institutions’ support for Cosmic, noting its potential to ramp up anti-money laundering efforts and its significance as a development in the banking sector’s ability to combat financial crimes efficiently. DBS’ Lam Chee Kin also praised Cosmic as a “game changer,” emphasizing the careful balance between combating financial crime and ensuring legitimate customers’ access to financial services.
Source: fintech.global
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