EToro adds ZCash
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Asset Management, Investment Management
EToro, the global, multi-asset, investment platform with over ten million registered users, has today added ZCash (ZEC) to its product range. This brings the total number of cryptoassets available on eToro to 14. ZCash is a decentralised payments network, designed to offer users greater privacy options. Often referred to as a competitor to Bitcoin, Zcash was developed in 2016, and counts Johns Hopkins University’s cryptographer Matthew D. Green... more
Eagle’s IBOR Solution Selected by Great Eastern
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management, Cloud
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a BNY Mellon company, today announced that Great Eastern has selected Eagle ACCESSSM, Eagle’s secure private cloud, as well as the Eagle Investment Book of Record (IBOR) solution. Building on its relationship with BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Great Eastern will move its current Data Management solution to Eagle ACCESSSM and create an IBOR to help enhance its investment decision-making capabilities.
Neueda launches Scrutiny to increase investment firm efficiencies
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management
Capital Markets technology specialists Neueda has launched a comprehensive service aimed at helping investment firms enhance competitiveness, improve efficiency and streamline costs through test automation. Combining Neueda’s industry experience and its leading automation technology, Scrutiny has been developed to reduce cost of ownership of front office applications to capital markets firms and improve time to market through test automation and... more
Objectway Acquires Algorfin From Unione Fiduciaria
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Asset Management, Investment Management, Wealth Management
Objectway, the leading Fintech group in Italy and one of the premier European players in software and services for the wealth, investment and asset management industries, acquired Algorfin, the software and services division of Unione Fiduciaria S.p.A. Algorfin is specialised in IT and administrative outsourcing services for Asset Management Companies, Custodian Banks and other financial operators, through the Archimede, Diogene and Archimede... more
Abacus Group Launches AbacusID™, Offering Single Sign-on to Third-Party Applications
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management, SaaS
Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions for alternative investment firms, today announced the launch of Abacus, a new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) feature that provides clients with single sign-on to third-party applications.
INVESTEC CLICK & INVEST REDUCES MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management
Investec Click & Invest, the online investment service, today announces it has reduced its minimum investment amount to £2,500. The change, which is effective immediately, advances Click & Invest's mission to broaden its service to more investors.
Savills IM transacts EUR 4.2 billion in 2018 on back of record capital raising
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management
Savills Investment Management (“Savills IM”), the international real estate investment manager, transacted EUR 4.2 billion in 2018, with EUR 1.1 billion of disposals and EUR 3.1 billion of acquisitions. The firm now manages a company record of EUR 18.3 billion assets.
Israel’s Magenta Venture Partners announces first closing of a new $100M fund focused on early stage Israeli startups
- 5 years 10 months ago
- Investment Management
Israeli VC firm Magenta Venture Partners announced today a new venture capital fund targeting $100 million. The new fund had its initial closing in October 2018 and is planning its final closing in 2019.
Finantix announces a strategic growth investment by Motive Partners
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Investment Management
Finantix today announced that it has signed an agreement with Motive Partners, a global private equity firm focused on growth investments in financial technology companies. Motive Partners will become a majority shareholder in Finantix and will support the company and the founders in extending the functional footprint of the product and in accelerating geographic expansion.
Aquila Capital launches its first green bond with a volume of EUR 50m
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Investment Management
The alternative investment specialist Aquila Capital has launched a green bond with a volume of EUR 50m and a duration of five years via the Norwegian hydropower operator Småkraft AS to finance the company’s further growth. With over 100 hydropower-plants across Norway and an annual energy production of 1 TWh, Småkraft AS is already the biggest independent operator of small-scale hydropower plants in Europe. The additional financing is being... more
Ascension Ventures Announces 14 New Investors
- 6 years 2 days ago
- Investment Management
Ascension Ventures, the London-based investment firm, today announced a funding round, which will see the addition of 14 new Venture Partners. The group strengthens Ascension’s core belief in entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs, bringing in active UK and US investors with a number of them already successfully-exited entrepreneurs.
Axioma seals contract with LGIM to implement Axioma Risk
- 6 years 2 days ago
- Investment Management, Risk Management
Axioma announced today that Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, has selected Axioma Risk, the enterprise-wide risk-management solution providing timely, consistent and comparable views of multi-asset class risk across the front, middle and back offices.
DriveWealth and Trading Central Announce Strategic Partnership
- 6 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment Management
DriveWealth, LLC, a leader in global digital trading technology, today announced a strategic partnership with Trading Central, a global leader of financial market research and investment analytics. The new relationship will allow the two companies to leverage the complementary elements of their businesses: seamless, digital, mobile-first transaction capabilities and sophisticated, accessible and actionable financial content.
Abacus Group Wins Best Technology-Overall at 2018 Alt Credit European Services Awards in London
- 6 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment Management
Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has been recognized as the winner of “Best Technology-Overall” at the 2018 Alt Credit European Services Awards which took place in London on 31st October.
Portfolio complexity increasing in Fiduciary Management and Outsourced CIO industry
- 6 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment Management
A new global survey from Milestone Group, providers of OCIO, Delegated and Fiduciary management technology solutions, has revealed that portfolio strategies are growing increasingly complex. Portfolio complexity also looks set to increase, with an even larger majority outlining that they expect the complexity of their portfolios to continue to grow. The implications of a more complex portfolio are extensive, causing OCIO managers to look to... more
