Program founded by Accenture and Partnership Fund for New York City seeks companies with tech solutions in areas such as the metaverse, digital assets, payments and sustainability NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Applications are now being accepted for the FinTech Innovation Lab New York, a 12-week program co-founded by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and
To help it realize its vision of becoming Japan’s Web3 hub, Fukuoka, Japan’s second-largest port city and a National Special Strategic Zone, has partnered with Astar Japan Lab to develop local Web3 use cases. On October 13 during the “Myojo Waraku 2022” conference in Fukuoka, the partnership was revealed by
Featuring sessions from global CEOs at Lenovo, IBM, Accenture, Intel, Qualcomm, and more HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On October 18, 2022, Lenovo will host its annual global innovation event, Tech World, for the eighth consecutive year. This year’s virtual event will showcase how Lenovo’s smarter technology is empowering people everywhere to change
The Hack Factory will focus on accelerating disruptive innovation in the Washington DC region RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Longtime DC-area resident and entrepreneur Matt Devost has launched the Hack Factory, a startup studio and growth accelerator designed to launch new business endeavors and support the local startup ecosystem. The new initiative will
EY Global Blockchain Leader, Paul Brody, Appointed as EEA Board of Directors Representative to Help Guide Increasing Business Adoption of Ethereum WAKEFIELD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) today announced the advancement of longtime EEA member Ernst & Young (EY) to the Board, the highest level of the organization. In
When the leading Japanese companies came together to usher in the era of Web3, the smart contracts platform Astar Network was able to run a national newspaper ad with the most brands in a single ad, setting a new global record. On September 26th, Nikkei published an ad for which
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI—Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting recently staked its first claims on virtual land in the Metaverse, purchasing virtual real estate on Blockchain-based platforms Decentraland and Somnium Space. Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting initially plans to utilize its new virtual land parcels in the metaverse to create new,
The wallets developed under the OWF banner are supposed to be flexible. The Foundation backs several open source projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, etc. A new collaborative effort to produce open source software to facilitate interoperability for a broad variety of wallet use cases was launched by the Linux Foundation, and
The Kingdom’s virtual assets programme will be overseen by Mohsen AlZahrani. Riyadh banned banks from conducting cryptocurrency transactions in 2018. In a sign of the Gulf nation’s prospective interest in cryptocurrencies, Saudi Arabia’s banking regulator recently named Mohsen AlZahrani to head its virtual assets and central bank digital currency initiative.
In December 2021 and January 2022, the surveys were conducted. Results were drawn from surveys of more than 500 financial advisers and 3,200 investors. Accenture, a consulting business, released an industry poll on Monday that found that Asian wealth managers are hesitant to sell digital assets to clients because they
