BlackRock

59 results about this entity

Period: 16 Jul 2008 - 08 Oct 2024

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

US Bank joins robo investment movement with FutureAdvisor

US Bank is the latest large financial institution to team up with an automated investment platform to provide online financial advice to wealth management clients, forming an alliance with BlackRock-owned FutureAdvisor.

Saxo Bank takes robo-advisor route with Blackrock

Saxo Bank has moved into the fast-expanding robo-advisory market with a full-scale digital investment platform for retail investors in partnership with BlackRock.

BlackRock launches tool to simplify retirement planning

BlackRock today launches CoRI, an innovative tool that is powered by BlackRock’s CoRI Retirement Indices (CoRI Indices), and targeted at individuals aged 55 to 74 to simplify and improve the way they plan for retirement.

BlackRock to buy digital wealth management firm FutureAdvisor

BlackRock has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FutureAdvisor, a leader in digital wealth management.