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MarketOrders COO quoted in Finance Magnates about the effects of Brexit on crypto

Our COO & Co-Founder, Sukhi Jutla, was recently quoted in Finance Magnates article ‘Calamity or Opportunity? The Effects of Brexit on Crypto’.
She said: “With Brexit still very much a hot topic it continues to cause many fractions between people and their opinions. No doubt there is no shortage of fear-mongering by those who want to stay in the EU and there is still a lot of indecision by those who are meant to lead us out of the EU on time and budget. And against this background of chaos, there are plenty of individuals and businesses who are trying to predict what the real impact of Brexit will have on them and their business and livelihood.”
She added: “Historically in times of uncertainty and chaos, many people will rush to the safety of commodities such as gold. This is why there is little surprise that the price of gold has been inching up daily. Gold is seen as a safe haven, a way to minimize risk by putting your eggs into a safety basket. Gold is real and it is a store of value.”
“Could this then be why the price of Bitcoin will also start surging as we head closer to Brexit day?,” Jutla asked. “Bitcoin, a digital currency still in its infancy has defied critics to become a well-respected store of value. Though there is still a lot of contention between governments not recognizing it as a currency, they have relented and agreed Bitcoin can be seen as a store of value.”
She concluded: “With the uncertainty still surrounding Brexit, we will continue to see erratic behaviour across the money markets and this will also include the value of the pound. In this case, I predict there will a flurry of activity in the gold and Bitcoin markets, driving both of these assets market prices upwards. In times of chaos and uncertainty, we think we do the most logical and rational things, but all we do is panic in the face of fear and this will cause the price of the pound to plummet.”
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MarketOrders Co-Founder invited to meet with Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice at St James Palace

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, was recently invited to meet with Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice at the royal residence St James Palace, where the Princess hosted the Good Growth Summit.

Designed to celebrate female entrepreneurs, the Good Growth Summit connects and inspires female leaders from across the US and UK technology ecosystem.

This exclusive invite-only event is designed to build connections and collaborations and to help female founders access the tools they need to start and scale their companies.

This year, the Summit was hosted by Her Royal Highness as she is a passionate advocate for helping to promote more women into technology and herself works for an artificial intelligence company in London.

The Princess expressed how she was personally inspired and encouraged by seeing so many female entrepreneurs driving the UK commerce forward. From her own business experiences, she expressed she didn’t underestimate the courage and conviction it takes to succeed and offered her support as we collectively work to create a more gender-balanced environment for innovation.

The event kicked up with a wonderful lunch reception followed by an afternoon of inspirational leaders sharing their top tips and personal journeys into the forays of tech.

Some of the guests had flown in from Silicon Valley and they shared their experiences in the hope of forging new relationships with our incredible UK talent pool.

The stories that we heard were all geared to inspire and fuel personal and business growth and it was wonderful to hear such inspiring stories.

Amongst the speakers were:

  • Joanna Hoffman – who joined Apple as the 5th employee and worked with Steve Jobs
  • Jennifer Rademaker – Executive Vice President – Mastercard
  • Linda Avey – Co-Founder of genetics testing company 23 and Me

The event concluded with a sparkling champagne reception. We will share official photographs once they are released from the Palace!

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MarketOrders Co-Founder quoted by Alluva about crypto myths and misconceptions

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, was recently quoted in Alluva article ‘Cryptocurrency Myths and Misconceptions; Debunked! (Part 3)’.
She said: “[One] way in which we can utilise crypto and blockchain technology is in providing provenance of the products. We can now provide evidence of the products full journey from mine to factory to customer and we can also verify the authenticity of the metals in the product. This gives a greater degree of confidence for end consumers who are now becoming more aware of purchasing sustainably and ensuring they are not buying items that are contributing to malevolent practices such as child labour or slavery.”
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MarketOrders COO becomes a mentor of the Women in Fintech Global Initiative

Our Co-Founder and COO, Sukhi Jutla, has recently joined the Women in Fintech Global Initiative as a mentor.

Run by the Department for International Trade, the Women in FinTech Global Initiative:

  • Brings together like-minded women working in the FinTech space, uniting those who want to bring their enterprises to the UK with those who already have.
  • Connects female entrepreneurs with a supportive investment community that understands the challenges that women face.
  • Provides valuable scaling guidance by working with accelerator programmes and business incubators to offer women support through their programmes.

 

Along with Sukhi, other women have become mentors:

Get more information here.

 

 

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MarketOrders Co-Founder nominated for the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Women in IT Awards Series

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, has just been nominated for the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Women in IT Awards series.

The Women in IT Awards series aims to tackle this issue and redress the gender imbalance, by showcasing the achievements of women in the sector and identifying new role models.

Sukhi reacted to the news: “It is wonderful to be shortlisted in such prestigious awards that showcase the best talents and endeavours women are making in the IT and technology field. Congratulations to all those shortlisted and it is my sincere hope that these awards continue to inspire even more women into this field.”

Organised by business technology site Information Age, the awards were launched as a platform to celebrate women in technology. Since its launch, in 2015, the Women in IT Awards have showcased women in technology in London, New York, Ireland and Silicon Valley. This year the awards series will expand to celebrate women in technology in Singapore, Berlin and Toronto for the first time.

This growing awards series acts as a flagship and high-profile platform to support the industry in its mission to move the dial on gender.

Nominated along Sukhi in the Entrepreneur of the Year category:

You can find the full list of nominees here.

 

 

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MarketOrders COO featured in the Financial Times as Top 100 BAME Tech Leader

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, is featured in today’s Financial Times paper as a Top 100 BAME leader influencing the technology sector.
For the second year running, the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards, an executive search agency that supports organisations to be more diverse at board level, are publishing a list of the 100 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) leaders in technology.
Candidates for the list were submitted following an open call. Inclusive Boards researchers also scanned the leadership of the top tech companies in the UK. The criteria used for nominees included: holding a senior role; having a sphere of influence in their organisation or in a community; driving progress in the sector outside their professional roles; and operating in the UK and / or Europe.
The judges were: Amy French, head of ecosystem development, Level 39; Leyla Boulton, editor, Special Reports, FT; Madhumita Murgia, European technology correspondent, FT, and Samuel Kasumu, managing director, Inclusive Boards.
Find the full list of nominates here.
 
 

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MarketOrders COO Recognised as Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in Tech

Sukhi Jutla, Co-Founder and COO of MarketOrders has today been announced as part of the #IB100 – a list of the top 100 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders in the Tech Sector. Now in its second year, the list has been produced by board appointments firm Inclusive Boards in partnership with the Financial Times.

The list will be published online, and in print in the UK and Europe as part of an FT special report into Diversity in Tech. In 2018, Inclusive Boards research found that 74.5% of Boards in the tech sector had no BAME members and that BAME people made up just 8.5% of senior leaders (Directors and Executives) in the sector.

As part of their Inclusive Tech Alliance (ITA) campaign, Inclusive Boards is calling on tech companies to implement inclusive working practices to fix the progression challenges currently facing BAME individuals from moving to senior leadership positions. This year’s #IB100 list showcases role models to encourage and inspire tech’s future BAME senior leaders.

Elizabeth Oni-Iyiola, Development Director at Inclusive Boards, said: ‘Technology is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK and beyond. It’s crucial that as these sectors expand so too does the level of representation within them. Sukhi Jutla and those featured today are groundbreakers, changemakers and role models within the industry and we are proud to include them in this year #IB100.’

Sukhi reacted to the news: “It is an honour to be recognised as a Top 100 BAME leader in the UK. Awards like this one I hope will continue to shine a spotlight on the amazing work the BAME community adds to the UK economy and helps to inspire the next generation of future leaders. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of my journey supporting my dreams and that includes my incredible team at MarketOrders.net”.

Those featured in the list include the most influential leaders from tech companies such as DeepMind, Google, IBM, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Microsoft, Monzo, Rolls-Royce, Twitter and Seedcamp.

 

Notes:

Inclusive Boards is the UK’s leading executive search agency, specialising in attracting high calibre diverse talent through their network of over 60,000 senior professionals. The services include Executive Search, Advisory and Training, Leadership Programmes and Conferences. Inclusive Boards operate across sectors including sport, social investment, third and private sectors. Inclusive Boards’ cutting-edge research has been featured in the Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail and others.  

The Inclusive Tech Alliance (ITA) is an initiative developed by Inclusive Boards. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is a part of who we are and not simply an added value. The Inclusive Tech Alliance is a laser-focused initiative to bring more diversity to the UK tech sector with over 30 members.

 www.inclusiveboards.co.uk  & https://www.inclusivetechalliance.co.uk/ 

 

 

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MarketOrders Co-Founder quoted by Alluva about crypto myths and misconceptions

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, was recently quoted by Alluva in their article “Cryptocurrency Myths and Misconceptions; Debunked! (Part 2)”.
She said: “We can now provide evidence of the products full journey from mine to factory to customer and we can also verify the authenticity of the metals in the product. This gives a greater degree of confidence for end consumers who are now becoming more aware of purchasing sustainably and ensuring they are not buying items that are contributing to malevolent practices such as child labour or slavery.”
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MarketOrders Co-Founder speaks at the Fintech Week in Hamburg

The Fintech Week is a 6-day FinTech focused event held in Hamburg (4-9 November). It is a celebration of all things FinTech and helps to showcase and promote FinTech ventures in Germany.

This year, the Fintech Week collaborated with the UK to strengthen Germany and London ties in the FinTech space.

As a result, the Depart of International Trade in the UK Government hand-picked MarketOrders.net to attend and present at FinForward, which is a 2-day conference part of the Fintech Week. The mission was to showcase Fintech capabilities and to foster collaboration and new opportunities.

Our COO and Co-founder, Sukhi Jutla, attended the FinForward event and presented on 2 panels.

The first panel discussed how Fintechs could embrace greater diversity. This was an insightful event where it was clear to see that this topic is very much at the forefront of the FinTech community. They understand that to build the tech of tomorrow we need to include everyone. Tech is inclusive and it’s important to celebrate all diversity in this field.

The second panel was about blockchain and the rise of Security Token Offerings (STO). Sukhi shared her views on how blockchain and STOs are increasing internalisation of the financial markets and shared how MarketOrders.net plans to disrupt the supply chain with the use of this new innovative technology.

Sukhi commented: ‘’It was a fantastic conference and we thank the Department of International Trade for this great opportunity. It is clear to see how progress is made when collaborations work well and it was great to see how Fintechs are thriving not only in London but in Germany too.’’

 

 

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MarketOrders COO tells CEO Blog Nation how technology is impacting the business

Our Co-Founder & COO, Sukhi Jutla, was recently quoted by CEO Blog Nation article ’10 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology is Impacting Their Business Today’.
She said: “MarketOrders operates in a traditional industry where most transactions are done in person with trusted relationships. The downside to this is the inability to scale fast enough and in-person transactions are prone to human error. Technology has allowed us to streamline the process of sourcing gold and diamond jewellery products for our retailers. We use our innovative tech platform that digitizes every step of the supply chain process, helping to make it more transparent. We are also using innovative new technologies such as blockchain to track the products and provide provenance and authenticity of the goods passing through the supply chain. It ensures both retailers and customers are getting what they pay for. Without this new technology, we would have never been able to scale our business, increase our margins and improve our processes. Technology has created numerous advantages for retailers, manufacturers, marketplaces like MarketOrders, and the end consumer.”
Read the full article here.