FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading service, today announced that it has strengthened its relationship with Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise risk management, portfolio construction and risk and regulatory reporting solutions. This expands FactSet’s strong fixed income and multi-asset class analytics, performance, and risk offerings.
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FloQast, Inc., a provider of close management software created by accountants for accountants, announced today it has been named among the Best Software to Use in 2017 by G2 Crowd, the world’s leading business software review platform. G2 Crowd, with 100,000+ user reviews, is read by nearly 700,000 software buyers monthly. G2 Crowd affords business buyers transparency when evaluating B2B software technologies, allowing them and their industry-related peers to make more informed purchasing decisions.
A true IoT breakthrough heavily depends on security. The lack of security standards is a well-known fact, but there are methods for protecting IoT, such as one-way networking.
Recently, several cases have painfully demonstrated how massive problems follow if poorly protected devices are connected to the internet. For example, the infamous Mirai botnet used IP cameras and DVRs to orchestrate the biggest DDoS attack ever.
Leading Japanese bank Mizuho has integrated Thomson Reuters next generation FX desktop, FX Trading (FXT), into their trading workflows. FX Trading brings together all of Thomson Reuters FX transaction venues onto a comprehensive end-to-end platform to streamline workflows and create a single point of access to the industry’s largest collective independent pool of FX liquidity.
StockTwits announced today it has completed an acquisition of SparkFin Inc., the realtime stock discovery platform which won top honors from attendees at the 2016 Stocktoberfest Fintech startup competition.
I’ve been wondering for a while how so many companies can be starting up something in the same space, and how are they surviving? The reason for mentioning it is that we keep hearing these numbers around how many billions are being invested in FinTech, bitcoin, blockchain and such like, and yet I cannot see the unicorns. Well, not many anyway. How many can you name?
Grandpoint Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grandpoint Capital, Inc., announced today that Roger M. “Rocky” Laverty has been named President of the Bank. Laverty, a member of the Bank’s board of directors since its inception in 2010, has a distinguished business career, most recently serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Farmer Bros. Co. He is also the former President and CEO of Smart & Final, Inc., and Diedrich Coffee, Inc., and he was a founding member and Chairman and CEO of Prime Advantage, Inc.
Daimler Financial Services AG announced that it is acquiring the electronic payment services provider PayCash Europe SA. By gaining a foothold in the ePayment business, Daimler AG will be launching its own electronic payment services provider under the “Mercedes pay” brand name.