Smartkarma opens Frankfurt office to support the build-out of its Research Network across continental Europe
- 6 years 7 months ago
- Investment
Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced the opening of its Frankfurt office, headed by Tim Bruenjes. After recently completing its Series B funding round, led by top-tier venture firm Sequoia Capital, Smartkarma looks to fast-track its growth across Continental Europe offering the MiFID II compliant research network of over 400 independent research providers.
MoneyLion Secures $42 Million Investment to Accelerate Growth
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Investment
MoneyLion, the digital personal finance platform for the financial middle class, announced today it has secured a $42 million Series B funding, led by Edison Partners. Existing investors FinTech Collective and Grupo SURA, as well as new investors Greenspring Associates and Danhua Capital also participated in the round. All told, MoneyLion has now raised $67 million in equity financing.
Smartkarma Raises Series B Round Led by Sequoia
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Investment
Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced it has closed a Series B round of financing led by Sequoia India, which brings the company’s total funding to US $21 million.
BUX Completes €10.6 million Funding Round
- 6 years 12 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment
BUX today announces that it has raised a €10.6 million Series C funding round in order to undertake ambitious product expansion.
SWIFT enhances connectivity to VPS, the Norwegian Central Securities Depository
- 7 years 1 day ago
- Securities Services, Banking
SWIFT will reinforce its connectivity to Verdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS), Norway’s central securities depository (CSD), which could make a shift in transaction volume to SwiftNet from other networks. Banks connected to VPS currently use different networks to connect to VPS, SwiftNet being one of them. The banks have the freedom to choose among the network connectivity offered by VPS. By signing the Swift CSD Community Agreement, VPS’s members... more
BNP Paribas Securities Services and Tata Consultancy Services Partner to Transform Asset Servicing Industry Using Blockchain Technology
- 7 years 5 days ago
- Securities Services
BNP Paribas Securities Services teams up with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to deliver an innovative blockchain-based platform, called Corporate Event Connect, which will provide fast, accurate and secure corporate event announcements to clients around the world. Corporate actions processing is one of the most complex areas of asset servicing. Information on the multitude of corporate actions taking place every year is processed and cascaded... more
Torstone Technology Expands Its Offering Into US Market
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Securities Services
Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that Peel Hunt, an independent corporate broking, advisory and trading house focusing on mid & small-cap companies, is expanding its use of Inferno for its US business, Peel Hunt Inc.
Ping An Securities goes live with FusionCapital from Finastra
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Securities Services
Ping An Securities has implemented FusionCapital from Finastra throughout its operations in Greater China. The business, part of China’s Ping An Group, is now using the flexible Finastra platform to help extend its securities brokerage capabilities on a global scale – meaning it can boost revenues as it enters new markets.
Linedata Launches New Interface to DTCC’s CTM in Support of MiFID II and Industry Requirements
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Investment, Investment Management, Compliance
Linedata (Euronext Paris:LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced the extension of its 10-year strong partnership with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure.
Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial invest in RegTek.Solutions
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Investment
Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management LLP have co-led in a US$5 million Series A funding round in
Esma Updates MiFIDII Guidelines
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Securities Services
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an update of its Guidelines on transaction reporting, order record keeping and clock synchronisation under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).
Brolly Raises £1m Seed Round with Valar Ventures and Pi Labs
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Insurtech, Investment
Brolly, the UK's first artificially intelligent insurance advisory application has raised a £1 million seed investment round with Valar Ventures, Pi Labs and Entrepreneur First (EF). Brolly is delighted to be working closely with the partners of these funds: James Fitzgerald and Andrew McCormack of Valar Ventures, the US venture capital fund backed by Peter Thiel, who have made notably successful fintech investments; Dominic Wilson of Pi Labs,... more
Voices.com Announces $18 Million Growth Investment by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Investment
Voices.com, the largest global voice over online marketplace, today announced an $18 million growth investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, the growth-focused private investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management. This represents the Company's first institutional investment since its founding in 2005.
Clausematch Raises £1.25m in Seed Round to Scale Its Next-gen Document Management Platform Globally
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Investment
ClauseMatch, an award-winning FinTech company, which provides SaaS-based smart document management for banks and financial institutions, receives VC funding from Speedinvest in official seed round. The sum will be used to further advance the innovative platform in the regulatory technology space.
Fintonic Closes a Round of Funding of € 25 million
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Investment
Fintonic has just closed a round of funding of 25 million Euros that has been supported by ING Group and the insurance group PSN amongst other investors.