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Morgan Stanley and Mastercard back credit-building startup TomoCredit

TomoCredit, the US startup behind a credit card designed to help first-time borrowers build credit history, has raised $22 million in a Series B funding round joined by Morgan Stanley's Next Level Fund and Mastercard.

22 July 2022

News/markets

Wall Street firms back DLT-based system for alternative assets

Wall Street players including BlackRock, Morgan Stanley and State Street are backing a new consortium led by iCapital that will build a distributed ledger-based system for alternative assets.

23 February 2022

News/security

Legacy tech mishandling costs Morgan Stanley $60 million in data breach suit

Morgan Stanley has agreed a $60 million class action settlement relating to legacy technology mishandling that led to two seperate data breaches in 2016 and 2019.

05 January 2022

Company announcement/retail

Morgan Stanley teams up with kids money management platform Greenlight

Morgan Stanley today announced a partnership with Greenlight® Financial Technology, Inc. (“Greenlight”) to bring families an easy, convenient way to teach kids about personal finance.

01 December 2021

News/startups

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