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TD Bank Announces Matt Boss as Head of U.S. Consumer Banking

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® , recently elevated Matthew (Matt) Boss to Head of U.S Consumer Banking.

Key Points: 
  • TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® , recently elevated Matthew (Matt) Boss to Head of U.S Consumer Banking.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240416163441/en/
    Matthew Boss, Head of U.S. Consumer Banking at TD Bank.
  • "I'm excited about the path ahead for TD and the U.S. Consumer Bank," said Boss.
  • Outside of TD, Boss serves as a board member of the National Forest Foundation and the Consumer Bankers Association.

Glassbox Reports Record Growth in Cloud Subscription Revenue, Bolsters AI Advancements

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Cloud subscription ARR surged by 54% YoY to $50.5 million.

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  • Cloud subscription ARR surged by 54% YoY to $50.5 million.
  • Notably, Glassbox secured a three-year, $42.3 million agreement with a prominent bank, which bolstered its cloud subscription revenue.
  • In the fourth quarter, revenue hit $14 million, a notable 22% growth YoY, with cloud subscription revenue seeing a 69% surge over the same period of 2022.
  • Glassbox also continued its upward trajectory in non-GAAP operating profit to 68.9% compared to 65.7% in the previous year.

Stand SL5090, NAB, Las Vegas, April 13-17: GB Labs keeps an eye on the future with its innovative storage solution for media businesses to move gigabytes of data securely providing seamless post-production workflows

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

For media businesses with a typical dispersed office or team environment, having Unify Hub as part of their on-premise solution will allow those teams to work together as one.

Key Points: 
  • For media businesses with a typical dispersed office or team environment, having Unify Hub as part of their on-premise solution will allow those teams to work together as one.
  • The creative agency's head office team in Sydney needed to establish multi-site workflows with the remote team based over 500 miles away in Melbourne.
  • "Unify Hub has allowed our two offices in Sydney and Melbourne to collaborate in a much more seamless and timely way.
  • Explore GB Labs unique storage solution for seamless workflows at South Hall Lower SL5090 at NAB.

PIONEER IN FINTECH DEMONSTRATES IMPACT OF AI IN PAYMENTS AT MASTERCARD EVENT DURING MONEY20/20

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Monday, October 23, 2023

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Credit Card Competition Act, a new wave of regulatory pressure on U.S. card issuers, makes its way toward a vote on Capitol Hill this week, fintech pioneer Mitch Jacobs of Plink AI will speak in Las Vegas to industry leaders on how to avoid negative impact from this pending legislation.  Jacobs will speak at a Mastercard Start Path session hosted during the annual Money20/20 conference, the most influential gathering of the payments industry in the world. The Mastercard session includes an audience of major industry leaders from processors, banks, private equity, and venture capital including Fiserv, Global Payments ANZ Bank, a16z and Point72.

Key Points: 
  • Jacobs will speak at a Mastercard Start Path session hosted during the annual Money20/20 conference, the most influential gathering of the payments industry in the world.
  • The Mastercard session includes an audience of major industry leaders from processors, banks, private equity, and venture capital including Fiserv, Global Payments ANZ Bank, a16z and Point72.
  • AI provides new ways for banks to get cards top-of-wallet, businesses more profit and consumers increased purchasing power," Jacobs said.
  • He sits on the Board of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, the trade organization of nonprofits supporting underserved US Small Businesses.

Global Fintech Fest 2023: An Early Adopter of Technology, Australia is a Thriving Market for Innovators - AusPayNet CEO Andy White

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Australia was an early adopter of tap-and-go technology, effectively combating frauds.

Key Points: 
  • MUMBAI, India, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "Australia was an early adopter of tap-and-go technology, effectively combating frauds.
  • During COVID, there was an incredible adoption of digital wallets, moving away from physical cards while retaining the tap-and-go convenience.
  • In another session on 'Australian Capabilities in Tech Sector', hosted by Vik Singh, Trade and Investment Commissioner, Austrade, Rehan D Almeida, General Manager, Fintech Australia, said that Australia and India could benefit from each other's strengths.
  • "Australia's new trade agreement brings opportunities for people with high skills to get access to the market and find opportunities in Australia.

Fireblocks Integrates Astar Network to Provide Institutions with Secure Access to the Leading Japanese Blockchain

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, has integrated Astar Network.

Key Points: 
  • Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, has integrated Astar Network.
  • This will also open up access to leading DeFi protocols on Astar, such as ArthSwap.
  • Additionally, Fireblocks’ users can leverage its battle-tested MPC infrastructure to manage their own wallets in a secure fashion.
  • By leveraging our highly secure network and MPC-based wallet infrastructure, banks, exchanges, OTCs, and hedge funds can now seamlessly access Astar's assets.

Australia is on the brink of ending interest rate hikes and an economic first – beating inflation without a recession

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Inflation is now coming down so quickly worldwide there’s probably no need to push it down further.

Key Points: 
  • Inflation is now coming down so quickly worldwide there’s probably no need to push it down further.
  • Summers and others in the US used to deride those who said ultra-high inflation would go away as “team transitory”.
  • But it is now looking as if that high inflation was indeed transitory, even if the transition took longer than expected.
  • That’s a saving that will push down Australia’s inflation rate and inflation rates worldwide.
  • Non-energy and non-food inflation fell as well, suggesting that there isn’t (yet) a psychology of expectations holding US inflation up.

Falling inflation expectations

    • Here, Australians expect falling inflation, if their answers to the Melbourne Insitute’s monthly expectations survey are to be believed.
    • This makes Australians less likely than they were to bake high inflation into wage negotiations and other decisions, making it less likely inflation will remain high.

A soft landing, without a recession

    • Here in Australia, it’s what our current Reserve Bank Governor has called staying on the “narrow path” of returning inflation to target in a reasonable timeframe, without a recession.
    • There was a recession when the bank tried to get inflation down below 7% in the mid-1970s, in the early 1980s, and in the early 1990s.
    • Enduring Australia’s (brief) 2020 recession without unemployment climbing above 7% was also a first.

A ‘Goldilocks’ economy is in sight

    • If we can manage that, we will have done future Australians an enormous service.
    • We get more likely to become more productive, because we’re less resistant to change when unemployment is less of a threat.
    • It is looking as if the Reserve Bank has the opportunity to cement low unemployment while controlling inflation.

Fireblocks Expands Support for Banking & Financial Institutions with New HSM, Public & Private Cloud Capabilities

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

NEW YORK, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, expands its highly secure MPC-CMP wallet and key management technology to include support for HSMs and public and private cloud, including Thales, Securosys, AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud. These flexible deployment models allow banks and financial institutions to leverage Fireblocks' industry-leading security and technology stack to quickly bring their digital asset initiatives into production while meeting their risk, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

Key Points: 
  • These institutions have leveraged Fireblocks to build new digital asset custody, trading, clearing and settlement services, tokenization of financial products such as tokenized fiat, central bank digital currencies (CBDC), carbon credits, and more.
  • Banks and financial institutions find success in bringing their digital asset products to production by leveraging key components of the Fireblocks platform.
  • Foundational to the ecosystem is the Fireblocks Network, which connects the largest consortium of regulated financial institutions that have implemented digital assets on the blockchain.
  • To learn more about Fireblocks' new offerings to support banks and financial institutions, visit www.fireblocks.com/customers/banks-and-fmis

Fireblocks Expands Support for Banking & Financial Institutions with New HSM, Public & Private Cloud Capabilities

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

NEW YORK, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, expands its highly secure MPC-CMP wallet and key management technology to include support for HSMs and public and private cloud, including Thales, Securosys, AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud. These flexible deployment models allow banks and financial institutions to leverage Fireblocks' industry-leading security and technology stack to quickly bring their digital asset initiatives into production while meeting their risk, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

Key Points: 
  • These institutions have leveraged Fireblocks to build new digital asset custody, trading, clearing and settlement services, tokenization of financial products such as tokenized fiat, central bank digital currencies (CBDC), carbon credits, and more.
  • Banks and financial institutions find success in bringing their digital asset products to production by leveraging key components of the Fireblocks platform.
  • Foundational to the ecosystem is the Fireblocks Network, which connects the largest consortium of regulated financial institutions that have implemented digital assets on the blockchain.
  • To learn more about Fireblocks' new offerings to support banks and financial institutions, visit www.fireblocks.com/customers/banks-and-fmis

ACAMS Australasia Conference Elevates Fight Against Money Launderers, Sanctions Dodgers, Human Traffickers, and More

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To foster greater collaboration in the international fight against illicit finance and sanctions evasion, ACAMS will host a special training and networking event for its 3rd AML & Anti-Financial Crime Conference – Australasia. Beginning on June 19th, attendees of this two-day event in Sydney will learn guidance and best practices related to emerging regulatory priorities and threats in the anti-financial crime (AFC) space, including the implementation of Australia's "Tranche 2" anti-money laundering (AML) reforms, criminal methodologies used to evade international export controls, due diligence practices to identify bribery and corruption in the logging and fishing industries, and recommendations on data-sharing through public-private partnerships tasked with preventing child sexual exploitation and human trafficking. 

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To foster greater collaboration in the international fight against illicit finance and sanctions evasion, ACAMS will host a special training and networking event for its 3rd AML & Anti-Financial Crime Conference – Australasia.
  • This year's conference will feature special keynote presentations by Alex Engel, Assistant Secretary for Transnational Crime in the Criminal Division of Australia's Attorney-General's Department, and Dr. Gordon Hook, APG Executive Secretary.
  • "The ACAMS Australasia Conference brings together the best and brightest financial-crime experts in the region to identify how to navigate evolving priorities, disrupt illicit financial activity, and save lives."
  • Find out more about the ACAMS Australasia Conference, including how to register, here: https://www.acams.org/en/events/conferences/acams-australasia-conference
    Members of the media who wish to attend in person, can email their request directly to Lashvinder Kaur at [email protected] .