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Morgan Stanley to expand Multicultural Innovation Lab across Emea

Morgan Stanley has committed to a £1 million investment to expand its Multicultural Innovation Lab across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

08 October 2021

News/wholesale

Wall Street giants invest in AI search engine for companies AlphaSense

AlphaSense, an AI-based market intelligence platform used by a host of financial institutions, has raised $180 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Goldman Sachs and joined by Citi, Morgan Stanley and Barclays.

30 September 2021

Company announcement/startups

Morgan Stanley and Wilson Sosini forge API integration for capitalisation data sharing

Morgan Stanley at Work today announced it has partnered with premier technology legal firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to develop a new application programming interface (“API”) that allows equity information for mutual clients to pass seamlessly between law firm and equity management provider.

27 September 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Morgan Stanley leads $1.6 billion round in Databricks

Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced a $1.6 Billion round of funding to accelerate innovation and adoption of the data lakehouse, as the data architecture’s popularity across data-driven organizations continues to grow at a rapid pace.

01 September 2021

News/startups

Wall Street giants invest in Vestwell

Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have joined a $70 million Series C funding round for workplace savings and investing platform Vestwell.

21 July 2021

News/markets

Nasdaq to fold Private Market platform into new JV with leading Wall Street banks

Naasdaq is to spin out its Private Market trading platform into a new standalone, independent company with a collective of Wall Street banks.

20 July 2021

News/security

Morgan Stanley customer data exposed though Accellion FTA vulnerability

Morgan Stanley says the personal information of stock plan participants has been stolen after a third-party vendor suffered a data breach thanks to a vulnerability with file sharing software from vendor Accellion.

09 July 2021

News/crypto

Morgan Stanley co-leads $48m funding round for blockchain player Securitize

Digital asset securities firm Securitize has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital.

21 June 2021

News/markets

Clearing firms invest in FIA Tech

A group of 10 clearing firms have committed $44 million to the Futures Industry Association's FIA Tech.

16 June 2021

Company announcement/cloud

Morgan Stanley goes all in on Microsoft Azure

Morgan Stanley and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a strategic cloud partnership aimed at accelerating the firm’s digital transformation and shaping the future of innovation in the financial services industry.

03 June 2021

News/crypto

Morgan Stanley and Soros join $200m round for bitcoin firm NYDIG

Morgan Stanley and Soros Investment Fund have joined a $200 million growth capital round for NYDIG, the cryptocurrency technology firm at the centre of Wall Street's recent embrace of bitcoin.

10 March 2021

News/payments

TransferWise enlists Goldman and Morgan Stanley for IPO - Sky News

Online money transfer unicorn TransferWise has appointed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to co-ordinate a planned initial public offering in London later this year, according to Sky News.

21 January 2021