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News/markets
Wealthtech entrepreneur John Wise and PE firm Stellex Capital Management have acquired S&P Global’s Fincentric business with a view to providing digital experiences and financial data distribution to the wealth, broking and asset management industries.
17 hours
News/startups
Pactio, a UK-based fintech focused on the private equity (PE) market has completed an £11m series A funding round
11 April 2024
News/crypto
Hong Kong's financial regulator is poised to give the green light to the first batch of bitcoin spot ETFs.
News/wealth
While almost all asset managers are already using artificial intelligence (AI) in their investment process, only a handful are using the tech for more advanced tasks, according to a recently published study.
26 March 2024
News/wholesale
Post-trade group Euroclear has acquired a stake in Iznes, a pan-European, blockchain-based network within the asset management market.
25 March 2024
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has taken its first step into the world of tokenisation.
21 March 2024
The fintech market is returning to some sense of normality in terms of valuations after a period in which it "largely lost its head", according to a leading investor.
29 November 2023
Investment funds authorised in the UK may now be able to progress their tokenisation strategies following the publication of the first report from a government-backed industry working group.
23 November 2023
The wealthtech sector in Asia-Pacific could be worth more than $2trn by 2027 thanks to technological advancements, according to a report published by McKinsey.
20 November 2023
Benchmark provider MSCI has extended its partnership with Google Cloud in order to accelerate its development of generative AI services for the investment industry.
30 August 2023
A US federal appeals court has sided with an asset manager in a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulator denied an application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
The UK's retail trading platform market has become more crowded following the launch of two separate US ventures.
21 July 2023
Global asset manager Schroders has teamed up with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to develop a tokenised digital asset fund.
27 June 2023
The ongoing effort to persuade the SEC to approve crypto investment products continues, following news that many of the country’s largest asset managers, BlackRock, WisdomTree and Invesco, have applied to the SEC for permission to launch a spot bitcoin ETF.
22 June 2023
Online searches for 'stock trading tips' and 'how to start trading' have increased by more than 200% since 2004 according to recently published data.
17 March 2023
The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation says it has taken possession of Silicon Valley Bank and appointed the FDIC as receiver, citing "inadequate liquidity and insolvency".
10 March 2023
Wealth management platform FNZ has made its second acquisition in a week, buying YieldX, a US-based provider of fixed income portfolio management technology, optimisation services and direct indexing tools.
20 January 2023
News/regulation
Despite the fact that the vast majority of trust, corporate and fund services see the benefit of adopting digital technology, only a third have actually started on their digitalisation projects.
07 November 2022
News/sustainable
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has agreed a deal with digital investor communications platform Proxymity, that will enable retail investors in the UK to participate in proxy battles.
03 November 2022
The world's largest crypto index fund manager, US-based Bitwise, is expanding from passive to active management in an effort to attract more institutional investors.
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