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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the new Chair of the Board
September 27th, 2016
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand’s Central Bank, has issued an announcement to inform that Professor Neil Quigley has been elected Chair of the Reserve Bank’s Board of Directors, replacing Dr Rod Carr. Ms Kerrin Vautier has ...
Canvas Ventures Raises $300M Fund to Invest in Software & Services Startups
September 26th, 2016
Canvas Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, today announced that it has closed a new $300M fund called “Canvas Ventures 2.” The firm’s previous fund was capitalized at $175M in August 2013. The four investing partners for the ...
Japan banks target fintech start-ups after law change
September 26th, 2016
Change to 5% ownership cap part of national effort to push financial technology Japan’s biggest banks are looking to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into fintech start-ups after the abolition of a law that prevented them from owning more than ...
Thomson Reuters Strengthens Buy-Side Trading Capabilities with REDE Acquisition
September 23rd, 2016
Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings, a trading technology pioneer whose flagship REDIPlus execution management system (EMS) provides advanced cross-asset class trading capabilities to the buy-side. The acquisition is expected to close by the ...
SFC Hong Kong investigates licensed brokerages for inadequate AML internal controls
September 22nd, 2016
The Securities and Future Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has issued an announcement to inform that its Enforcement Division is investigating a number of cases of SFC licensed brokerages with suspected inadequate anti-money laundering (AML) internal controls and it ...
Industry Experts take to stage for Fintech EUROPE London 2016
September 20th, 2016
Managers of Wealth (MoW) event FinTech EUROPE 2016 is to be held in central London on 27 October, 2016. The speakers represent many industry leading organisations and have extensive experience which contributes to their interesting, stimulating and insightful topics ...
Bank of England to develop the next generation of Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) for payments
September 19th, 2016
The Bank of England is consulting on the next generation of its Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service. RTGS is not a household name. But it lies at the heart of safeguarding the Bank’s mission for monetary and financial stability, ...
PwC acquires data technology firm Selera Labs
September 15th, 2016
PwC is strengthening its tax reporting practice with the acquisition of Selera Labs, a market leading data technology firm. The acquisition comes at a time when tax authorities around the world are requiring increasing amounts of data from organisations. ...
Mike Lynch’s Invoke Aims to Replace M&A Lawyers With Robots
September 15th, 2016
Former Autonomy CEO backs startup using AI for due diligence Move comes a week after HP sold former Autonomy assets Could the armies of lawyers needed to close billion-dollar deals soon be a thing of the past? That’s what Invoke ...
PwC reports double digit growth for second consecutive year
September 12th, 2016
Revenue up 11% to £3.4bn Growth is reported in all business areas, with particular client demand for cyber security, data analytics and technology services Total number of UK equity partners increased to 926, from 885 last year (4.6% increase) ...
