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FINTECH

Volante Technologies | September 23, 2022

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, today announced that it has been named to The IDC FinTech Rankings Top 100 for the second year in a row. The IDC FinTech Rankings 2022 evaluates and categorizes the top IT vendors based on 2021 calendar year revenues and the percentage of revenues exclusively attributed to financial institutions. This accolade follows a number of other recent wins for Volante, including placing first in the IBS Inte...

FUNDING

USQ, Chatham Financial | August 02, 2022

Union Square Capital Partners, LLC, announced today it acquired the management of PREDEX, a real estate-focused interval fund. PREDEX (Ticker: PRDEX) has $163 million in AUM as of July 27, 2022, bringing total assets of USQ interval funds to approximately $400 million. “True diversification matters, and most investors have been reminded of that over the first half of this year,” said Thomas Miller, Chief Executive Officer of Union Square Capital Partners. Since both fu...

Finextra | March 05, 2020

The US dollar's position as the unrivalled global currency means it has the most at stake should central banks begin to issue their own digital currencies, according to ING economist Carlos Cocuzzo. "If there's anybody that stands to lose in this game, it's really the US," Cocuzzo has said at Blockchain Week 2020 in London. 90% of the world's foreign exchange turnover runs on dollars, meaning it pervades into the economies of almost every country. This is in light of Fe...

Business Wire | September 17, 2020

Canadian RegTech solution providers, PortfolioAid and VigilantCS, have formed a strategic partnership to help Canada’s wealth management industry tackle client-focused reforms (CFRs) with award-winning technology. Under CFR, firms must comply with new conflict of interest provisions by June 30, 2021, and new KYP/KYC suitability obligations by Dec. 31, 2021. Both firms automate and digitize core CFR controls to support wealth management firms, decreasing cost of compliance and improving evi...