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Members Exchange raises $65m to take on Nyse and Nasdaq

Members Exchange (MEMX), a new market operator hoping to take on Nyse, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets, has closed out a $65 million funding round, with investments from Wall Street heavyweight backers including Wells Fargo and BlackRock.

13 May 2020

Company announcement/cloud

BlackRock to port Aladin to Microsoft Azure

BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients, which include many of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors and wealth managers.

08 April 2020

News/sustainable

BofA global environmental exec: Addressing climate change goes beyond business-as-usual

Alex Liftman, global environmental executive, Bank of America (BofA), believes “significantly accelerating progress on addressing big global issues like climate change requires going beyond business-as-usual financing to find innovative approaches that can help attract a larger share of capital from a broader set of investors.”

08 April 2020

Company announcement/markets

ICE Bonds completes integration with BlackRock Aladdin

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that ICE Bonds has completed its integration with BlackRock’s Aladdin, offering access to ICE Bonds’ Portfolio Auction functionality, an automated execution protocol for portfolio trading.

13 February 2020

News/sustainable

BlackRock recommends a common language for sustainable investing

Hot on the heels of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s letter warning global chief executives of climate change market risk, the world’s largest fund manager has released a summary of recommendations for sustainable investment.

28 January 2020

News/sustainable

Betting on AI to reduce risk in sustainable investment

The quest toward improving corporate sustainability is mired by uncertainty: uncertainty of emissions volume, extreme weather events, timing of such events, and inevitably, the toll they may take on investment. This uncertainty is regarded by investors as risk.

22 January 2020

Company announcement

Major buy-side and sell-side firms call for regulatory action to make clearing houses safer

BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Allianz, Citi, Societe Generale, State Street, T. Rowe Price, and Vanguard, today, in a joint paper, presented detailed recommendations from both buy-side and sell-side perspectives to further enhance the safety and soundness of central counterparties (CCPs), also known as clearing houses.

25 October 2019

Company announcement/inclusion

Mastercard and Acorns join BlackRock's Emergency Savings Initiative

UPS, Mastercard, Etsy, Brightside, Arizona State University, and Acorns will join BlackRock’s Emergency Savings Initiative to help their employees, customers, gig workers, and college students take the essential first step towards long-term financial well-being.

04 October 2019

Company announcement

Santander to adopt BlackRock's Aladdin platform

Santander Asset Management (SAM) has reached an agreement with BlackRock to adopt the Aladdin platform to accelerate the asset manager’s technological transformation.

11 March 2019

Company announcement

MarketAxess and BlackRock extend trading alliance into Asia

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTX) and BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) are expanding their Open Trading alliance into the Asian credit markets.

09 March 2018

Company announcement

BlackRock to acquire Cachematrix

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cachematrix, a leading provider of financial technology which simplifies the cash management process for banks and their corporate clients in a streamlined, open-architecture platform.

28 June 2017

Company announcement

BlackRock to take a minority equity stake in digital investment manager Scalable Capital

Scalable Capital has announced the signing of a €30m funding round, led by BlackRock alongside existing investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. This funding round is one of Europe’s largest for a digital investment manager to date, bringing Scalable Capital’s total funding to €41m.

20 June 2017