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The trade body for the UK's fund management industry, the Investment Association (IA), has extended its fintech accelerator initiative with the launch of a second cohort.
09 January 2019
US bank JP Morgan has hired a former Google executive as its new head of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
29 August 2018
Having backed away from a rumoured bid to buy Fidessa, SS&C has turned its attentions to Eze Software, offering private equity owner TPG Capital $1.45 billion in cash for the investment management software house.
31 July 2018
Credit Suisse has joined a funding round for Assetmax, a Swiss startup that provides asset managers with an end-to-end software platform.
20 July 2018
The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.
11 May 2018
Deutsche Bank's research unit has unveiled an interactive web tool that uses big data in an effort to quantify the importance of intangibles, such as environmental and social issues, on stock prices.
27 April 2018
SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.
11 January 2018
Less than half of global asset managers and asset owners think that they are adapting technology quickly enough to support their business growth needs, according to a survey from State Street.
27 June 2017
Japan's Nomura Asset Management (NAM) has tapped artificial intelligence (AI) to quantitatively assess text from news websites and blogs, using the results to help portfolio managers make investment decisions.
26 June 2017
A consortium of Chinese state-owned companies and private enterprises has created a $1.44 billion investment fund dedicated to fintech mergers and acquisitions.
03 January 2017
Venture capitalists have invested more than $200m in UK tech startups in the month following the controversial Brexit vote, allaying fears that London's growing tech sector would be one of the first casualties of the withdrawal from the European Union.
25 July 2016
The president of one of the world's largest hedge funds has told an audience of fund managers that he looks forward to the day when they will all be replaced by computers.
09 June 2016
Retail investors may soon be able to buy and sell shares via Facebook's messenger platform after UK fund supermarket AJ Bell announced plans to launch a new trading service in the next three months.
08 June 2016
Spanish exchange operator Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) has paid partner Deutsche Bourse EUR8.2 million in cash to take full ownership of financial information outfit Infobolsa.
25 February 2016
Halifax is to dispatch up to 2000 staff to UK libraries to run IT taster sessions for the estimated six million adults in the country who have never used the internet to get online.
20 January 2016
BNY Mellon and its fund manager clients are scrambling to assess the damage caused after a third party system run by SunGard and used by the bank to value assets worth billions of dollars broke down.
27 August 2015
Almost half of asset managers are still reliant on costly manual processes to manage complex derivatives creating a dangerous level of operational risk according to a report from buy-side systems vendor SimCorp.
26 August 2015
Wall Street and City firms now have a new tool to help them sift through thousands of job applications: a virtual trading platform that uses social gaming, psychology and machine learning techniques to test candidates' mettle.
19 August 2015
Further evidence has emerged that French investment banks are exploring the potential of blockchain technology in the capital markets.
24 July 2015
Two rival exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange (Nyse) and Nasdaq OMX, are planning to provide back-up to each other's closing auctions in order to prevent a repeat of the outage that hit Nyse earlier this month.
23 July 2015
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