iComply “Most Forward-Thinking Work Being Done” Related to Blockchain Settlement

iComply “Most Forward-Thinking Work Being Done” Related to Blockchain Settlement

Chicago, Il. — FIA announced that iComply Investor Services Inc. (“iComply”) is one of 15 companies chosen to exhibit in the Innovators Pavilion at the 34th Annual FIA Expo in Chicago October 16 – 18. Innovators Pavilion showcases startup companies providing forward-thinking solutions for the futures, options and cleared swaps industry.

iComply was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants to showcase its offerings to more than 4,500 attendees at the largest gathering of derivatives industry professionals in the world. The Innovators Pavilion provides each FIA Innovator with a Tech Pod on the Expo show floor that can be used to display its services. iComply will also be featured in the official conference guide, the FIA’s service provider directory, and the event app. In addition, five FIA Innovators will be chosen to take part in a Meet the Innovators competition in which each company will have five minutes to pitch its services to Expo attendees. Following the competition, a panel of judges will select one company as the FIA Innovator of the Year and award that firm a prize of cash and other resources valued at more than $20,000.   

This year’s Innovators Pavilion is sponsored by Amazon Web Services and supported by several fintech organizations and angel investor groups, including Fintech Sandbox, FinTEx, Hyde Park AngelsRise New York and Seismic Foundry.

“I’m proud to announce that iComply was chosen to be featured in the 2018 class of FIA Innovators,” said Matt Haraburda of XR Trading, chairman of the Innovators Pavilion selection committee and executive committee member of the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG). “iComply…represents some of the most progressive and forward-thinking work being done in fintech related to cleared derivatives. I’m looking forward to seeing their work showcased at Expo.”

With more than 4,500 people attending each year, the FIA Expo is the largest gathering of derivatives industry professionals in the world. Attendees include senior executives from brokerage firms, exchanges, trading firms, and service providers, and the exhibit hall typically attracts more than a hundred firms as exhibitors.

iComply and other Innovators were selected on the basis of applications that were submitted and reviewed by a committee of industry experts assembled by FIA.  

View the full list of FIA Innovators here.  

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About FIA
FIA is the leading global trade organization for the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets, with offices in London, Singapore and Washington, D.C. FIA’s membership includes clearing firms, exchanges, clearinghouses, trading firms and commodities specialists from more than 48 countries as well as technology vendors, lawyers and other professionals serving the industry. FIA’s mission is to support open, transparent and competitive markets, protect and enhance the integrity of the financial system, and promote high standards of professional conduct. As the principal members of derivatives clearinghouses worldwide, FIA’s member firms play a critical role in the reduction of systemic risk in global financial markets.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

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iComply MasterClass: Smart Contract Auditing Expert Panel

iComply MasterClass: Smart Contract Auditing Expert Panel

In this upcoming MasterClass, iComply hosts Hosho’s CTO Alex Blair as he joins iComply’s CTO Matt Masiar, to speak on the importance of smart contract auditing, especially for financial applications of smart contracts.

In 2017, a total of $400 million that was raised through initial coin offerings (ICOs) was lost or stolen. This year $23 million was lost to crypto scams every day, with 10% of all funds invested into ICOs also having been reported lost or stolen. The status quo of token fundraising is not sustainable, nor ready for institutional finance.

A single vulnerability once exploited can destroy an entire project. Code, if not audited may not function as intended but will work fine for a short period of time. Companies soft-launching on a blockchain network have a lot to lose from code vulnerabilities and it could end up being a costly decision to not have an audit prior to launch.

Save Your Spot: Registration Limited to the First 100 People Date: Thursday, October 4 Time: 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM (Pacific) Who is this MasterClass for? Developers, Token Issuers, Exchanges, Cyber Security Consultants

Key Learnings:
In this MasterClass, the panel will break down what smart contract audits are, why they are essential and how they can protect you and your investors. 

About Alexander Blair
As CTO of Hosho, the global leader in blockchain technology, Alexander leads its technology teams. Every audit bearing the Hosho name or GPG signature is viewed by him. He participates in the audit of ERC-20 contracts, intensive gambling contracts, website penetration testing, and consulting work. With each project, Alexander works to help companies achieve proper security for their funds and the blockchain ecosystem. Alexander Blair possesses a depth of knowledge and experience in low-level system administration, high-level development in multiple languages, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency mining. Within the healthcare and cybersecurity industries, Alexander has refined his extensive skills in software security protocols. His projects include the sole development of updated mining pool software for cryptocurrencies based on the Cryptonote protocol; co-running SupportXMR.com – a cryptocurrency pool that focused on providing high-quality, high-speed mining pool access worldwide; and the intensive growth of the largest Monero pool in the world to a peak position. Prior to serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Hosho, Alexander enhanced his knowledge of security at Yo Sub Kwon’s LaunchKey. Later acquired by Iovation, Kwon tapped Alexander to join his new venture, Hosho – a cybersecurity company focused on the specific needs of the blockchain industry.

About Matt Masiar
A pioneer of Web technology for almost two decades, Natt’s work has won numerous local and international web development awards. He has acted as a CTO, Tech Team Lead, and technical adviser on a number of projects. He has demonstrated experience with designing and implementing secure, high-performance, scalable applications; large-scale integration projects; native mobile and responsive web applications; and legacy client-server based applications. Skilled in software design patterns, agile methodology, architecture, ASP.net, C#, Mobile Applications, Web Design, Management, and relational database design. 

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

iComply MasterClass: Understanding and Mitigating Risks in Crypto
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iComply MasterClass: Compliance in the Decentralized Financial Markets

iComply MasterClass: Compliance in the Decentralized Financial Markets

In this upcoming MasterClass, Greg Pinn, Head of Product Strategy for iComply and Former Head of World-Check for Thomson-Reuters, speaks on the role of compliance in the decentralized financial markets. He’ll walk through its best practices and the different approaches related to jurisdiction-based compliance.

Save Your Spot: Registration Limited to the First 500 Registrants
August 7: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
August 9: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT / 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

Key Learnings:
In this MasterClass, Greg breaks down why compliance matters and how the global market is in need of jurisdiction-based compliance for cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets in both centralized and decentralized models. Compliance is not a new need but a pressing one – events such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the more recent, Russian Laundromat scheme are prime examples of why the need for compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) procedures exist.

Who is this MasterClass for?

  • ICO Issuers
  • Decentralized Exchanges
  • Compliance Leaders
  • ICO Consultants
While many argue that regulation stifles innovation, Greg explains that compliance actually enables innovation by protecting individuals that choose to participate in emerging industries. This is not only good from a moral and ethical standpoint but also from a material one. The emerging crypto market has faced an abundance of scrutiny under the public eye due to the emergence of a handful of bad actors; however, this does not paint a complete picture. There must be a balance between the free movement of value and protection of all individuals.

The “fundamentals” of compliance and how they are impacted by jurisdiction: This portion of the webinar will introduce new investors to compliance. This consists of concepts such as anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). These concepts are of major importance in both the traditional and decentralized financial markets and their implications can vary widely by jurisdiction.

The future of compliance: The final portion of the webinar will touch on the future of compliance, Greg considers the industry to be in a “renaissance” period. Costs associated with compliance for financial institutions are high and run parallel to the cost of employee turnover. Constant training and retraining are costly and inefficient. Thus, Greg predicts that the future of compliance is shifting to focus on decreasing the human costs associated with processes by enhancing these processes with technology such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation.

About Greg Pinn
Greg Pinn has a decade of experience leading global best practices in anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) industry. Greg currently serves as head of product strategy for iComply and previously ran strategy for World-Check, the world leader in risk-based intelligence data.

Looking for financial grade KYC and AML in an enterprise ready API?

iComply offers global screening for humans, corporations, and blockchain transactions in a single REST API.

Book a demo with one of our specialists to learn more.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

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Benzinga – iComply A Top RegTech Solution

Benzinga – iComply A Top RegTech Solution

Benzinga – iComply A Top RegTech Solution

iComply was named a top RegTech solution by Benzinga Global FinTech Awards. The award was announced on May 16 in New York City during the peak of the “NYC Blockchain Week”.

The Benzinga FinTech Awards celebrates leading innovations in Fintech and RegTech across the world. It recognizes winners in a variety of categories including “Best Alternative Investments Platform,” “Best Customer Engagement Tool,” “Best Insuretech Solution” and more.

“We are excited to receive this recognition from Benzinga as an industry leading RegTech company, beating much more established KYC providers such as Jumio, BigID, and Trulioo. While these companies have been in the market much longer, our iComplyKYC product is focused directly on the specific risks associated with cryptocurrency transactions. In only a few short months since our product release, iComplyKYC is recognized as the industry best practice for cryptocurrency exchanges, token launch platforms, and leading securities law firms and risk advisors around the world.” said Matthew Unger, CEO of iComply Investor Services.

At present, iComplyKYC is available as a private white label solution and is currently being used by a number of FinTech platforms, initial coin offerings, licensed Canadian and U.S.broker-dealer and portfolio management firms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and capital markets advisory firms. The company is continuously enhancing the solution with additional layers of verification being released, including:

  • Accredited Investor Verification
  • Global Business Verification
  • Legal Entity Identification
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Sanctions & Watchlist Screening
  • Machine Vision Liveness Detection
  • Cryptocurrency Wallet Risk Monitoring
  • Blockchain Forensics
  • Credit Bureau Verification
  • Wallet Ownership Verification.

We see the iComplyKYC product as critical infrastructure to enable institutional investment to access digital finance.

“When we entered the market with our first product – a regulatory service for blockchains that uses Prefacto technology to apply real-time compliance and governance procedures for the offering and secondary trading of tokenized assets – we discovered that many of the KYC and digital identity providers were too expensive and most are barely more than a camera phone app with a dashboard on the back end. Right now, if an token issuer or cryptocurrency exchange were to be audited by Fintrac, Fincen, European Commission or OFSE they would have a harsh awakening when they realize that the term “KYC” is not standardized across the industry – many of the largest providers do no OFAC screening, most only call a single national PEP list for the USA, and none offer comprehensive risk reporting on cryptocurrency wallets or source of funds. We saw this gap as an opportunity to apply the best practices of traditional sanction screening, anti money laundering and anti-terrorist financing to the decentralized financial markets,” added Unger.

The team at iComply is pleased to receive this recognition and looks forward to continued success as we continue to grow our team, product and customer base.

Looking for an end-to-end token management studio?

iComply’s token compliance platform, Prefacto enables issuers to capture the value of blockchain asset management with multi-jurisdictional compliance automation for over 150 countries.

Book a demo with one of our specialists to learn more.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

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New University Research: The Compliance Trilemma
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Top 3 Blockchain Startups to Watch in 2018 – Bitcoin Market Journal

Top 3 Blockchain Startups to Watch in 2018 – Bitcoin Market Journal

Top 3 Blockchain Startups to Watch in 2018 – Bitcoin Market Journal

iComplyICO was featured today in Bitcoin Market Journal for our work in regulatory compliance, with CEO Matthew Unger stating that, unlike many ICO issuers in 2017, issuers in 2018 will be focused on prioritizing regulation, compliance and due diligence.

Top 3 ICOs for 2018 – Bitcoin Market Journal
Author: Charles Bovaird
ICOs were all the rage in 2017, generating major headlines by pulling in millions of dollars’ worth of investor funds. While this might be great for the founders, the more important matter may be… Read the full article here.

Looking for an end-to-end token management studio?

iComply’s token compliance platform, Prefacto enables issuers to capture the value of blockchain asset management with multi-jurisdictional compliance automation for over 150 countries.

Book a demo with one of our specialists to learn more.

About iComply Investor Services Inc.
iComply Investor Services Inc. (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in the capital markets. With powerful data, verification, tokenization solutions, iComply helps companies overcome the cost and complexity of multi-jurisdictional compliance to effectively access new markets. Learn more: iComplyIS.com

iComply MasterClass: Understanding and Mitigating Risks in Crypto
iComply MasterClass: Understanding and Mitigating Risks in Crypto

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iComply Releases OFAC Screening For 6 Major Cryptocurrencies
iComply Releases OFAC Screening For 6 Major Cryptocurrencies

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New University Research: The Compliance Trilemma

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iComply Signs First Tokenized Real Estate Offering

iComply Signs First Tokenized Real Estate Offering

iComply Signs First Tokenized Real Estate Offering

iComply ICO Signs First Licensing Deal for Real Estate ICOs
Canadian entrepreneur secures license to access ICO securities compliance platform

Vancouver, B.C. – iComply ICO (iComply Investor Services Inc.) a regulatory technology platform that automates the legal procedures for initial coin offerings (ICOs) is today announcing the signing of its first licensing deal with Canadian real estate developer, Francis Penner.

Recently, Penner was behind a multi-building redevelopment in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, now home to the $95M Canadian Innovation Center built by Red River College.

“I believe that this platform promises to release a synergy between real estate development and a new financial vehicle. I plan to use this new financial instrument to expand my real estate initiatives.” Said Penner.

“We are developing the world’s first automated compliance platform for regulated securities, by focusing on the Canadian and U.S. markets first, we will have the highest standards of underwriting, investor protection, and ‘prefacto’ compliance in the world.  ” Said Matthew Unger, CEO of iComply ICO.

The iComply ICO team foresees much bigger opportunities to use ICOs for established companies, rather than just startups. Infrastructure projects and even governments will be able to raise money using encrypted digital share certificates on the iComply ICO platform.

New and existing ICOs are invited to apply for the platform’s public beta.

Investors have become increasingly interested in ICOs largely because of the liquidity of cryptocurrencies, which can be converted immediately into Bitcoin, Ether or government issued currencies using online services such as Coinsbank or Coinbase.

ICOs are outpacing traditional venture capital investments. According to a report by Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, by June of 2017 ICO funding exceeded $550 million surpassing angel and seed VC funding.

This momentum came to a halt this July when the SEC ruled that initial coin offerings may be classified as securities and therefore subject to federal securities laws including investor disclosures, audited financial statements, and registration requirements. Where requirements are unmet, those taking part these transactions may be liable for violations of securities law.

Last week, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase told attendees of the bank’s investors conference that, “The currency isn’t going to work. You can’t have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are really smart.”

“In a sense, Jamie Dimon is right – many ICOs being issued today are fraudulent. What JP Morgan isn’t considering is that the ICO is an emerging financial instrument, not just a currency or asset class. What is wrong with ICOs today has nothing to do with Bitcoin or blockchain technology, it is that no mechanism for underwriting, due diligence and investor protection have existed – until now.” Added Unger.

“This project is another step in the further democratization from wall street to main street, and has the potential of matching capital to ideas in a extremely efficient manner that is both legal and compliance oriented. There is is a need for this because whenever you have profit potential and opportunities you also have potential for misconduct.” Said William Schumacher, a retired Citigroup executive.

Unger and his team foresee the platform being utilized by investors, existing ICOs, startups, and existing companies to raise capital with the support and due diligence of auditing, accounting, and legal firms.

About iComply ICO
iComply ICO (iComply Investor Services Inc.) is a regulatory technology (regtech) platform that automates compliance procedures for initial coin offerings (ICOs), enabling them to be securely utilized as efficient financial instruments. iComply ICO streamlines legal and accounting processes providing automated checks and balances throughout the issuance, purchase and resale of encrypted digital share certificates. Investors, accountants, lawyers, regulators, ICO issuers and marketing firms all benefit from an ecosystem that supports trust, democratization, decentralization and integrity. Learn more: iComplyICO.com

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