Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Research/Corporate actionsSurvey

From Cloud to Multicloud, Pathway to Resilience

06 June 2023 373 downloads

Research/Corporate actions

The Future of Fintech in the UK 2023

13 April 2023 686 downloads

News/wholesale

Swift hails results of blockchain pilot for corporate actions data

Interbank co-operative Swift has successfully completed its blockchain-based corporate actions pilot, describing it as a "compelling solution".

24 March 2023

Research/Corporate actions

Sustainable Finance Live - Enabling positive change through innovation and collaboration

31 January 2023 398 downloads

Company update/markets

Broadridge and Strate Connect team to streamline proxy voting in South Africa

To create a better proxy voting experience and further extend the proxy voting process in South Africa, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR), and Strate, South Africa's principal central securities depository and central collateral platform, have completed the integration of their respective end-to-end vote processing solutions.

14 December 2022

Company update/markets

Broadridge and Slib e-voting service goes live in France

Extending their joint strategic commitment to modernise and enhance shareholder voting in the French market, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) and SLIB, a leading software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France, today announced the go-live of their joint end-to-end global voting solution.

29 November 2022

Company update/markets

EToro enables proxy voting with Broadridge

eToro, the social investing network, has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR) to enable proxy voting for its users.

15 November 2022

News/sustainable

BlackRock and Proxymity agree UK proxy voting deal

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has agreed a deal with digital investor communications platform Proxymity, that will enable retail investors in the UK to participate in proxy battles.

03 November 2022

Company update/markets

Broadridge proxy voting service goes live Austria

Further extending its innovation program to support the highest standards of corporate governance in local and global markets, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced the successful live running of its “market golden copy” event sourcing and proxy vote execution service for banks, brokers and wealth managers in Austria.

10 October 2022

News/markets

Swift runs blockchain pilot for corporate actions data

Interbank co-operative Swift is working with Symbiont and seven securities players to trial a blockchain-based corporate actions system.

14 September 2022

Company update/markets

DTCC partners Kingfield to transform corporate actions claims process

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced its subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), has connected its automated ClaimConnect solution to the claims processing platform offered by leading financial software provider Kingfield Corporation.

27 July 2022

Company update/markets

Exchange Data International forms partnership with Finalto

Exchange Data International (EDI), a leading provider of global security corporate actions, pricing, and reference data services, and Finalto have teamed up to allow EDI’s clients to better access Finalto’s innovative multi-asset trading service.

20 July 2022

News/crime

Bank of America fined $225 million for unlawfully freezing accounts during Covid-19 pandemic

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have fined the Bank of America (BofA) for their deficient disbursement of state unemployment benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic.

15 July 2022

Company update/markets

Broadridge posts corporate actions to DTCC in ISO 20022 format

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced that its subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), successfully processed the U.S. market’s first-ever, fully-automated voluntary reorganization ISO 20022 instruction as part of its newly automated Voluntary Reorganization service.

15 June 2022

News/people

Flagstone appoints 10x’s Leda Glyptis and Monzo’s Meri Williams to board

UK cash deposit platform, Flagstone, has announced the addition of fintech heavyhitters Leda Glyptis and Meri Williams to its board of directors, ahead of planned Series B funding in 2023.

06 May 2022

News/people

Ukrainian refugees connected with UK tech jobs by Fintech Without Frontiers

Fintech Without Frontiers – an industry led-initiative created by Ozone API – has launched a bid to connect Ukrainian refugees with career opportunities in the UK fintech space.

05 May 2022

World Earth Day 2022: How are banks progressing with their afforestation pledges?

Long read/Corporate actions

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

World Earth Day 2022: How are banks progressing with their afforestation pledges?

22 April 2022

News/people

Volt appoints PayPal veteran as CRO

Real-time payments provider Volt has announced the hire of Matt Komorowski, who previously led PayPal’s channel partnership business across APAC, LATAM, and MEA.

08 April 2022

Company update/markets