BEQUANT partners with BCB Group April 16, 2020 BEQUANT has partnered with BCB Group – an FCA regulated business payments provider in the digital assets industry. BEQUANT will be using BCB Group’s multi-currency payment accounts as well as market liquidity in foreign exchange (FX) and cryptocurrency. BEQUANT has been actively developing a one stop solution for institutional clients including its multi-asset exchange, prime [...]
Tiktok bans direct messaging for under-16s amid safety concerns April 16, 2020 Tiktok will ban users under the age of 16 from sending direct messages as the platform looks to improve safety and stave off concerns about harmful material. The video-sharing platform, which is popular with teenagers, today said that from 30 April new and existing users who do not meet the age requirements will no longer [...]
Hope opera: Andrea Bocelli’s Milan concert breaks streaming record April 15, 2020 Andrea Bocelli has smashed multiple records after his live-streamed solo performance from the deserted Duomo in Milan racked up millions of viewers worldwide. The Italian tenor’s Music for Hope concert reached a peak of more than 2.8m live Youtube viewers on Easter Sunday, while the video received more than 28m views worldwide in the first [...]
Coronavirus: Trump’s partisan attacks could leave him vulnerable in November April 15, 2020 Looking around the world at responses to COVID-19, generally speaking political partisanship has taken a back seat to a genuine spirit of cooperation that transcends party lines. With the general election behind us and local elections delayed, British politics can focus on the task in hand without being too guided by the immediate reaction from [...]
US coronavirus deaths hit 25,000 after doubling in one week April 14, 2020 The number of deaths from coronavirus in the US surged past 25,000 today, according to a Reuters tally, marking a doubling of the death toll in just one week. The US, which has the world’s third-largest population, has recorded more deaths from Covid-19 than any other country. In total almost 597,000 cases have been reported [...]
Can inclusion efforts help business resiliency during the COVID-19 crisis? April 14, 2020 When business continuity plans kick in, as they have for the COVID-19 crisis, what happens to diversity and inclusion efforts at investment organisations? Do they fall away as ‘nice-to-haves’ or are they seen as contributing to a cultural edge of resiliency? Evidence from a meeting as the unprecedented global lockdown took hold – by conference-call, of [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on NGRAVE April 14, 2020 NGRAVE is a blockchain security provider offering a secure and user friendly end-to-end solution for the self-sovereign management of individuals and businesses digital assets and cryptocurrencies. The blockchain space is about to see some solid innovation with the advent of NGRAVE, a blockchain technology company on a mission to make owning and managing digital assets [...]
The era of decentralisation April 14, 2020 We are about to enter the era of decentralisation. Thanks to a global shift towards work from home practices, we are no longer sitting in large office blocks, but in our own homes. We are literally decentralising. For those in the cryptocurrency space, we’ve been expecting this to happen, just not quite this quickly. For [...]
Long read: Advertisers look to esports as gamers flock to virtual stadia April 13, 2020 Advertisers might find rich pickings in the world of esports, writes James Warrington Over the last few days, a meme purporting to show a model of a stadium that would seat 1 million people has circulated on social media. The image is probably fabricated and certainly ludicrous — even North Korea has only managed to [...]
Coronavirus: Virgin Australia to ground all but one domestic flight and seeks state aid April 9, 2020 Embattled Virgin Australia has said it will ground all domestic flights except a single daily trip from Sydney to Melbourne due to coronavirus, and is seeking AU$1.4bn (£707m) in government aid. The severely reduced programme will run through to 15 June at the earliest. It is understood that Virgin is seeking the cash in the [...]