Morgan Stanley - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/regulation

Fed extends public comment period for Morgan Stanley acquisition of E*Trade

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that the public comment period has been extended through June 4, 2020, for the notice by Morgan Stanley of New York, New York, to acquire E*TRADE Financial Corporation of Arlington, Virginia.

30 April 2020

News/retail

Morgan Stanley to buy E*Trade for $13bn

Morgan Stanley has agreed a deal to buy online discount brokerage E*Trade Financial in an all-stock deal worth around $13 billion.

20 February 2020

News

Morgan Stanley vets launch cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is building a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform.

06 December 2019

Company announcement/security

Morgan Stanley client poll finds HNW investors positive about digital but worried by security

The latest Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll finds that high net worth (HNW) investors are increasingly attracted to digital technology while at the same time concerned about cybersecurity.

09 August 2019

Company announcement

Morgan Stanley IQ offers investors insights into the environmental impact of their holdings

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced the launch of a new sustainable investing analytics and reporting application, Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient™ (Morgan Stanley IQ), designed to assist clients in further integrating social and environmental objectives into their investments.

05 August 2019

Company announcement/security

Morgan Stanley introduces encrypted document sharing through Box

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced the launch of a new wealth management digital collaboration product, which allows for encrypted document sharing between clients and Financial Advisors.

22 July 2019

News

Top US banks unite for 'Fintech Focus' coding bootcamp

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are to turn their New York offices into coding bootcamps for under-represented college students in a new initiative intended to increase the representation of women and people of colour in software engineering within the financial services industry.

17 July 2019

News/startups

Morgan Stanley picks startups for Multicultural Innovation Lab

Morgan Stanley has picked 10 technology startups to take part in its accelerator programme for firms who have multicultural or women leaders.

02 May 2019

News

Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $900m for employee stock plan manager

Morgan Stanley has struck a $900 million cash deal to buy Solium Capital, a Canadian provider of cloud-enabled share plan administration services.

11 February 2019

News/wholesale

Wall Street firms plan to take on Nyse and Nasdaq with new exchange

Morgan Stanley, E*Trade and Fidelity Investments are among a group of Wall Street firms backing a new equities exchange hoping to take on Nyse, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets.

08 January 2019

Company announcement

Morgan Stanley to use Yext across financial advisory network

Yext, Inc. (NYSE:YEXT), the leader in Digital Knowledge Management (DKM), today announced it has been selected by Morgan Stanley to put its financial advisors in control of the information about them across the web.

12 December 2018

News

Open Banking is in the customer’s hands in the age of data breaches

Following news of the Marriott data breach, panelists at Fintech Connect 2018 believe that while concern about the security of data retention still exists, open APIs have resulted in a paradigm shift around how data is controlled.

05 December 2018