BlackRock

63 results about this entity

Period: 16 Jul 2008 - 30 Jan 2025

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.

Banks launch IM service to rival Bloomberg

A consortium of Wall Street banks has launched an instant messaging platform it hopes will loosen Bloomberg's vice-like grip on the market for real-time communication between traders.

BlackRock selects Thomson Reuters Org ID KYC managed service

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that BlackRock, a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide, has selected Thomson Reuters Org ID (Org ID) to complement its existing rigorous counterparty due diligence process.

Wall Street firms take on Bloomberg with new messaging platform

A group of Wall Street firms, led by Goldman Sachs, has acquired instant messaging outfit Perzo and set up a new company to help them break free of their reliance on Bloomberg.

Wall Street banks turn to messaging startup as Bloomberg alternative

A group of Wall Street banks, led by Goldman Sachs, are on the verge of buying a stake in instant messaging firm Perzo as they prepare to break free of their reliance on Bloomberg, according to Reuters.

BlackRock to shut down analyst survey programme following Attorney General probe

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has agreed to end its analyst survey programme after a probe by the US Attorney General into the early release of market moving sentiment data.

FSA fines BlackRock unit £9.5m for putting client money at risk

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) (BIM) has been fined £9.53 million by the FSA after errors caused by systems changes put client money at risk.

CFTC appoints data standardisation sub-committee members

Representatives from the ISO, Goldman Sachs, Google and Swift are among the members of a new technology advisory sub-committee on data standardisation set up by the CFTC.

Nyse Technologies to develop EU consolidated tape

The technology arm of Nyse Euronext has announced plans to launch a consolidated tape providing complete coverage of post-trade equities data from all European regulated exchanges, MTFs, and OTC markets beginning Q3 2011.