SIX and Eagle Investment Systems Expand Alliance to Include Global Sanctions Data
- 6 years 12 months ago
- Investment Management, Risk Management, Compliance
Eagle clients can now source sanctions data directly from SIX for use within Eagle solutions. The alliance will help to streamline efforts by clients to source, validate, and align sanctions data with existing portfolio data, helping firms minimize the risk of reputational damage and fines that can result from dealing with sanctioned entities.
Investment app tickr marks major growth milestone with crowdfunding campaign
- 6 years 12 months ago
- Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Investment app, tickr, is today launching its crowdfunding campaign on leading investment platform Seedrs. Funds raised will be used to accelerate user acquisition, while building several new features including a visual newsfeed giving users an interactive overview of the companies in their portfolio and the work they are doing to make an impact on the world. tickr’s user statistics demonstrate the scale of appetite for disruption in the... more
JHC Transforms Digital Landscape for wealth managers
- 7 years 2 days ago
- Wealth Management
Wealth management fintech firm, JHC Systems (JHC), has launched its Digital Wealth Platform. The product and service offering allows firms to digitise key processes, which will improve efficiency and enhance the experience of end users. This means wealth managers will be freed up to focus on what really matters – client relationships and retention.
First BELLIN Customer Goes Live with gpi for Corporates (g4C)
BELLIN, a global leader in providing web-based treasury software and services for multinational corporations, has successfully integrated SWIFT gpi for Corporates (g4C) technology in its tm5 treasury management system. BELLIN client Darling Ingredients Inc. just went live with g4C and has processed the first g4C payments in tm5, together with JPMorgan Chase bank.
BlueBay chooses Alpima to equip its sales, product and multi-asset teams for fund data
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Fund Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management
BlueBay has chosen Alpima to further equip its sales, product and multi-asset teams to intelligently visualise fund data and product characteristics across its full fixed income suite. Offered as a white-label version of its cloud-based platform, ALPIMA has worked closely with BlueBay to customise it to its exact requirements. Luc Leclercq, BlueBay’s COO, says: “We are pleased to engage with ALPIMA, whose modular and adaptive platform offers the... more
KKR Becomes Founding Signatory to Impact Investing Principles in Effort to Create Alignment across Industry
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Investment Management
KKR announced that it has become a founding signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management, a new market standard for impact investing introduced by the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. KKR joins 59 other signatories, collectively representing over $350 billion in assets invested for impact, in their commitment to managing their impact investments in accordance with these Principles, which are meant to bring greater... more
Kyriba Closes $160 Million Growth Round Led by Bridgepoint to Fuel Enterprise Platform Innovation and Global Expansion
- 7 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment, Treasury, Cloud
Kyriba, the global leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, today announced that it has closed a $160 million growth investment round led by Bridgepoint, an international private equity group, which gives Bridgepoint a majority stake in the business. The closed deal values Kyriba at $1.2B and Daher Capital, Iris Capital and CEO Jean-Luc Robert will continue on as investors in the company. With the new capital, Kyriba will enhance product... more
FinTech Global Lists Appway As One of the World’s Most Innovative WealthTech Companies
- 7 years 2 weeks ago
- Wealth Management
Appway is thrilled to be named in WealthTech 100 as one of the 100 most forward-thinking companies redefining the wealth and asset management industry. Investments in WealthTech have grown dramatically, with nearly five times more invested in the sector in 2018 than in 2014. “With the rise of mobile and digital distribution channels, new business models, and personal finance consumer propositions, the wealth management industry is undergoing... more
Expanded DTCC Sponsored Service gains immediate traction in evolution of the treasury market
- 7 years 3 weeks ago
- Treasury
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced another step has been taken in the unfolding evolution of the Treasury marketplace.
Diversity & Inclusion in Asset Management – Industry Report
- 7 years 3 weeks ago
- Asset Management
There’s a reason why #palemalestale was trending on Twitter – and not in a good way. Back in 2018, we looked at why gender equality in asset management wasn’t bad, but not particularly good either:
KRM22 deploys market surveillance desktop application Irisium on OpenFin OS
- 7 years 3 weeks ago
- Investment Management, Risk Management
OpenFin, the capital market’s operating system (OS), today announced that KRM22, the technology and software investment company, with a particular focus on risk management in capital markets, has become the first compliance vendor to deploy on OpenFin’s OS. The collaboration enables seamless interoperability between Irisium, KRM22’s market surveillance application, and other applications deployed on OpenFin’s OS giving end-users an integrated... more
Refinitiv Automates Fund Eligibility for Wealth Managers and Financial Advisors through Eikon App
- 7 years 3 weeks ago
- Fund Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management
Building on its commitment to work with partners and customers across the financial community to solve key workflow challenges, Refinitiv today announced that it has onboarded a new app “Fund Eligibility” to its financial markets desktop platform Eikon, which automates the eligibility assessment governing product sales restriction. Developed by the Swiss FinTech Investment Navigator, the “Fund Eligibility” app is the latest innovation to offer... more
DTCC to expand Sponsored Service to bring greater capacity to the treasury market
- 7 years 3 weeks ago
- Treasury
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced its proposal to expand the Sponsored Service of its subsidiaryFixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). DTCC views this as the latest milestone in the transformation of the Treasury market.
Linedata expands data and analytics offering through agreement with ICE Data Services
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Asset Management
Linedata (Euronext Paris: LIN), a global provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, announced an agreement with ICE Data Services to provide a broad set of high-quality data and analytics to Linedata’s clients on the occasion of its Linedata Exchange industry conference in New York today. Linedata’s strategy of combining technology, services, and data takes a significant step forward with this addition of... more
STYLE ANALYTICS TO OFFER SUSTAINALYTICS’ ESG RESEARCH AND DATA TO INVESTORS
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Investment Management, Data, Infrastructure
Style Analytics, the provider of factor-based analysis software for investment professionals, today announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research, ratings and analysis, to serve the rapidly growing demand to integrate ESG considerations into the investment process. As part of the agreement, Style Analytics will provide an easily-accessible portfolio level view of Sustainalytics’... more
